April 25, 2024
In five languages (English, Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian) and two U.S. printing, “Newsonomics: Twelve Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” is the first Ken Doctor book. Sign up here for notice of the new Newsonomics Readers.
So what we have here is a trend that’s held true from boom to bust through tepid recovery: newspaper companies’ continue to be the laggards, losing market share in ad revenue, by the week, month, and year.
Read MoreIf Apple snapped its fingers and transformed the print industry tomorrow, its 30-percent take of worldwise circulation revenue would be $10.2 billion. That’s a fantastical number, of course: No fingers can be snapped, not all print readers will transition, pricing will change, and so on. But we ...
Read MoreNegotiation is helped greatly by competition. Ironically, Google, the first big web middleman to drive the newspaper industry nuts, may prove useful here as its Android-powered tablets (Samsung, Dell and more) take on the iPad. Can Google strike a 10% deal with the newspapers, setting a ...
Read MoreIsn't Apple wanting 30% of fees for apps a little like [Sony CEO] "Howard Stringer demanding 30% of the revenue produced by TV shows running on Sony TV sets"? That's how a friend put it to me when we talked today. It's a confusing world, no doubt, but still Apple is fundamentally a ...
Read MoreAs the much-ballyhooed "fight for livingroom" plays out, can national news companies like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and NPR, or local news companies, get a piece of the pie, whoever (Apple, Google, Comcast, Time Warner, Dish) slices it up?
Read MoreWhy it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million. 2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world. 3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape. 4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreGoogle and Verizon, of all companies, know that it is the mobile web that's the big prize going forward. Choose your favorite metaphor. The Internet will be like water, like electricity, like air. For the next generation, it will just be there, accessible from anywhere at the touch of some ...
Read MoreThe promise: A stable, ubiquitous system of mobile payment, even run by a cartel, should give publishers a better ramp to mobile paid content, which, so far has been largely a non-starter. Apple wants its 30%, the erstwhile phone companies are deciding on their desired share and Google's trying ...
Read MoreWhile investors have reacted negatively to drain on profits, Google's aggressive hiring is an audacious move for market share -- what smart companies, with the means, do in a recession.
Read MoreFor Yahoo, I think, it's simple arithmetic. If you've figured out how to monetize content better than the other guys -- remember Yahoo Newspaper Consortium members say they can mark up $8 CPMs to $15 and beyond, courtesy of Yahoo's behavioral targeting technology -- why not do it against ...
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