The Newsonomics of the Mobile Aggregator Roundup: Pulse, Summly, Zite…..& Flipboard?

Design is an important part of these acquisitive moves. One reason these companies have value on the market is that they stand out. It must be said: For the most part, news companies have once again missed a chance to innovate, to make something new of a new platform. Flipboard, Pulse, and Zite ...

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The Newsonomics of Next Issue’s New All-You-Can-Eat Magazine Newsstand

In the hurly-burly of digital content innovation and monetization, it’s hard to figure out what things are, so we try to find apt comparisons. With the new Next Issue digital newsstand, let’s think Netflix or Pandora or Spotify as the closest cousins. Next Issue, the offspring of five ...

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The Newsonomics of Crossover

What percent of print ad loss is made up by digital ad gain? This is the crossover metric driving much of John Paton’s Digital First Media/Journal Register Company strategy. With print advertising down now more than 50 percent in 10 years in the U.S., and even diving more quickly now in some ...

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The Newsonomics of the News Dial ‘O Matic

Today, in 2012, those questions are more pressing in our age of news deluge. We’re confronted at every turn, at every finger gesture, with more to read or view or listen to. It’s not just the web: It’s also the smartphone and especially the tablet, birthing new aggregator products — Google ...

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New New York Times Plan: (Digital) World Domination

Today's news that the Times Company is finally selling its New York Times Regional Newspaper Group holdings of 14 newspapers absolutely fits with the last week's news of CEO Janet Robinson's abrupt departure. Expect the new CEO, most likely from the outside to be focused on three A's: audience, ...

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The Newsonomics of ARPU, Counting Revenue per Visitor

If close to right, the value of a unique visitor is 3.5x greater for the Times than for HuffPo, in advertising. It’s 4x greater for the Guardian than Mail Online.

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The Newsonomics of the Digital Cafeteria

What's coming: Tablet specials on sports events, leisure, travel, health, and other social events. In other words: the range of what newspapers traditionally cover in feature sections, but with the content and presentation thought out with a magazine approach. That’s why iPad specials or ...

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Six Lessons for News Publishers from Seth Godin

Treat News ADD: In a world of plenty, really infinities of news, opinion and information, it's not how much content you can push to the market, it's how much reader attention you can earn and depend on. In describing Domino, Godin says, "The only asset we care about is attention." You've got to ...

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The Quote

Bewkes is on to something all savvy media execs should get. The customer wants the technology -- and the platform of delivery -- to be transparent. We want what we want, and we don't want to be nickel-and-dimed along the way. Single pricing, what I've called ''all-access pricing" across, ...

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iPad and the New Five-Fingered Exercise

I think we'll see these companies go head-to-head for reader and subscriber dollars. As they do, I think they'll face a new five-fingered exercise. Raise one hand; five is the probably the maximum number of iPad news sites for which readers will pay.

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