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NEWS
- National Geographic Just Became the First Brand to Top 100 Million Instagram Followers
- Breaking up the tech giants? How that could affect publishers
- Disney Completes Its $71.3 Billion Purchase of Fox, Massively Transforming the Industry
- What the Media Insight Project tells publishers about modern news audiences
- Consumer lifestyle publishers are trying their hands at B2B publishing
TRENDS
- Viral marketing: Lessons from the world record egg
- While YouTube and Facebook fumble, Pinterest is reducing health misinformation in ways that actually make sense
- Why Branded Video Is a Must-Have Product for Publishers
- ‘Value over volume’: The Economist tightens its paywall
- On Snapchat Discover, Publishers Tweak Programming Strategies to Keep People From Tuning Out
METRICS
- Digiday Research: 62 percent of publishers plan to spend more on video production
- Research: 26% of US adults own a smart speaker as of January 2019
- The State of Digital Asset Management 2019
- Advertisers Spend More on Native, but Favor the Same Formats
- Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than 10%
- Over 600% growth in video views: Inside Bloomberg’s Instagram strategy
- Q1 2019 Digital Video Trends: US Video and TV Ad Spending Exceed Expectations
PEOPLE
- People Magazine Editor in Chief Jess Cagle Steps Down
- How Freelance Labor Became the Unsung Casualty of Media Layoffs
- Hearst Magazines Chief Troy Young on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly From His First 6 Months
- Facebook loses two important executives amid new privacy push
- Bustle Taps Former Details Editor in Chief Dan Peres to Lead Revamped Gawker
- Fidji Simo, now in charge of Facebook’s app, helped Facebook build a $55 billion ad business
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Posted by: Monica Murphy
