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.
Newspaper companies’ place in the business world is greatly reduced. They simply don’t have the wherewithal to acquire businesses that will be the building blocks of tomorrow’s growth. Their low profit numbers are proxies for their reduced horizons, their reduced reporting impact and their ...
Read MoreHere's the 90-day question to watch: If Attributor's numbers are close to right, pointing to "112,000 near-exact copies of unlicensed article by more than 75,000 unlicensed sites" in a recent 30-day period, how will Google and Yahoo respond to a flood of thousands of notices?
Read MoreTake two simple words: online advertising and replace them with “digital marketing.” Within that simple word change, we see a world shift, and one of huge, fundamental importance to news publishing.
Read MoreFor Google, it's a big question, a question of how much revenue it can wring out of business users in the years ahead. Yes, it can target specific advertising to business readers, but getting two revenue streams -- hey, that's a new idea -- from them will be better. Clearly, Buzz is just a ...
Read MoreWho will be next? And is the mating of banko companies the look of the next year? Dean Singleton bit the bitter bullet last week. After staving off bankruptcy for all of 2009, telling MediaNews execs that the company would not need to take that route, the company succumbed. MediaNews is ...
Read MoreFast Flip, Google's hardly secret visual news search product, just made its debut today. It's a premiere that tells us lots about the swirling tradewinds in which the company now finds itself. It also marks two important milestones, one about the slow replacement of news search 1.0 and one ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Two significant announcements signal news publishers’ renewed efforts to gain better control of their content as we move on to the next stage of the Internet. The Associated Press announced a new “registry” and “beacon” program, aiming at better ...
Read MoreWhat the predictions failed to get right was how deeply newspaper companies have cut expenses. Consider these cuts, 2Q, 2009 compared to 2Q, 2008: * McClatchy: 29% * Gannett: 20% * Media General: 23% * New York Times: 20% It is these cuts -- coming on a base that has been shrunken quarter by ...
Read MoreOnce ATT sales reps got up to speed (and that's certainly an intriguing question, given the newspaper company implementation experience), they'll be competing head-on with newspaper reps. Open up the Yellow Pages, and browse through furniture dealers, appliance sellers, home services of all ...
Read MoreSo, the three, somewhat ungainly pieces -- combined, represented a trifecta of web reckoning --I see going forward now are: Renegotiation of news producers' relationships with Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. I've written about my notion of Fair Share (no relation and coincidental timing with ...
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