May 5, 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.
News companies have far fewer resources than they’d like and they need. While once they were the big guys, looking at buying start-ups, for now, they’re largely on the sidelines, marveling at the mojo, the profits, and the acquisitions of the Googles and the Apples.
Read More$1.96 billion: Google’s 1Q, 2010 profits, with $6.8 billion in revenue. Gannett -- largest news company in the US and second worldwide – reported total revenue of $1.32 billion, and profits of only $119 million in 1Q. Those are measures of how the world values these companies, what they do, ...
Read MoreThe magic word here from a business perspective: Roll-up. Whoever figures out how to roll up major audiences and monetize them wins. J-Lab's report holds out hope that may come about somewhat organically. History, though, teaches us that it's more likely to come by dint of more singular zeal.
Read MoreIs there a danger in content arbitrage? It’s value-neutral; it’s all in how you do it. Let’s remember that journalism is essentially a manufacturing process, with as much or as little value added as we want.
Read MoreIs the FTC looking at the trinity of Google's ad play: Paid Search (AdWords) + Online Display (DoubleClick, acquired in 2007) + Mobile (Ad Mob, acquired in November)....Digital media aren't bought silo by silo; they are bought to reach a set of would-be customers, across platforms and ad type.
Read MoreThe Apple model, in a sense, just sets a new cost-of-distribution. While web distribution has been free-plus, the cost of Apple distribution – if you charge for news products – is a predictable, and seemingly stable 30%. Just give me 30% off the top, says Steve Jobs. Ironically, that 30% is ...
Read MoreEditors — gatekeepers — had long picked out stories for their readers. Now we’re picking out stories for each other, flinging them about the digital universe, into our e-mail inboxes, Twitter accounts and Facebook walls. The Google Buzz news just reinforces this wider phenomenon and tries to ...
Read MoreGoogle listens politely, takes meetings and grows stronger and stronger by the day, more able to withstand assault in court or the courts of public opinion, as the clout and financial wherewithal of the content creation companies, already diminishes, is further threatened.
Read MoreOne thing due for review: digital ad dominance, given Google's recent acquisition of mobile ad leader AdMob. AdWords + DoubleClick + AdMob provides Google unprecedented clout in the fastest growth source of advertising in the country, and Western World.
Read MoreAggregation, as nurtured through the News Registry ingestion-and-tagging process, is the key, and that's been largely proven out. Among the big challenges is creating a compelling user experience that transcends old news conventions. Give AP Mobile a B here; what's needed is an A product;AP ...
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