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NEWS
- When Money Runs Out: Magazine’s Demise Puts Consumers on Alert
- Twitter Shows Healthy Growth Signs, and Ad Payments to Publishers are Up 60%
- How Meredith’s Parents Magazine Creates Content for Millennial Moms
- ESPN The Magazine Will Shutter Its Print Edition After 21 Years
- Research: How the Human Body Can Predict What Makes Content Go Viral
- Meredith Plans More Coverage Centered Around Women
- Why Some Tech Companies Are Turning to Print
- Why the Washington Post Magazine Created an “All-Cover” Issue for Earth Day
Washington Post All Cover Issue
- Five Truths Publishers Need to Accept to Remain Profitable In 2019
- Condé Nast Sells Golf Digest to Discovery Inc.
- Meredith Claims Improved Ad Results, Strong Circ Business in Q3
- Discovery Snaps Up Condé Nast’s Golf Digest for $30 Million
- After Phasing Print Out, Here’s How Seventeen Magazine Brought It Back
- Architectural Digest Expands Digital Video to B2B Subscribers
- Condé Nast’s Brides Magazine Bought by Dotdash, To Go Online-Only
- Vanity Fair Digitizes Archives, the Latest on the Quad/LSC Merger and Other Industry Notes
- Life After Print: How 3 Magazines Are Navigating Their New Business Models
TRENDS
- Here’s What You Need to Know About Image Optimization For SEO
- Intelligent Paywall: The “Hottest New Tool” Helping Publishers Secure Sustainable Reader Revenue
- “People Pay for Habits”: How Publishers Are Innovating with Content to Entice and Retain Subscribers
- Daily Forecast: US Time Spent with Digital Audio Is Beating Expectations
- How AI Can Save And Protect Ad Campaigns from Consumer Backlash
- In Good Company: Why Publishers Need to Communicate the Value of Premium Context
- Why Does Video Ad Receptivity Change Throughout the Day?
- Content Formatting: How to Structure Text to Keep Readers Engaged
Cision: Keeping Readers Engaged
- Making an Impact With 360-Degree Content
- Should Publishers Ditch Native Ad Content Promotion for Good?
- How Are Big Data Technologies Impacting Journalism?
- Incognito No More: Publishers Close Loopholes as Paywall Blockers Emerge
- “Brand Power” Is Not a Myth for Magazine Publishers
- How Publishers are Creating the Right Membership Model for Their Readers
- Google Launches Two New Types of Ads: Intent-Based Discovery Ads and Query-Based Gallery Ads
- How Publishers Can Add 10-15% To Instagram Referral Traffic
- Digiday Research: Most Publishers Show Ads to Their Paying Subscribers
- How Publishers Are Innovating in Digital Advertising, to “Actually Add Value to The Reader’s Experience”
- The Rundown: Search-Focused Publishers Make for Attractive Acquisition Targets
METRICS
- Social Advertising Channels 2019: Growth, Trends, Spend
- More Than Half of US Social Network Users Will Be Mobile-Only In 2019
eMarketer.com: Mobile-Only Social Networks
- How Social Media Users Have—And Have Not—Responded to Privacy Concerns
- Internet Growth Accelerates 9% Compared To 2018, Mobile Users Up By 100 Million
- Video Will Account for Almost Half of Programmatic Spend This Year
- Publisher Branded Content Revenue Grew 40% YoY, And Other Content Marketing Insights
- Americans’ Relationship Status with Print? ‘It’s Complicated’
- Nearly Half of TV Viewers Browse Online While Watching Their Favorite Movies and Shows
- Daily Forecast: US Tablet Time Continues to Drop
- Dealing with Paywall Resistance: How Publishers Are Using Data for Growing Subscriptions
PEOPLE
- Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
- Digiday Research: Media and Marketing Staffers Brace For Layoffs This Year
- Instyle’s Revolving Door Continues with New Publisher
Instyle Publisher Agnes Chapski
- Bonnier Promotes Popsci EIC Joe Brown to Lead 3 Additional Titles
- ‘I Don’t Think Magazines Are Doomed,’ Says UK Boss of Condé Nast
- Rolling Stone’s Publisher and CRO Exits After 12 Months in the Role
- Hearst’s Michael Clinton To Retire After 21 Years
- Glenda Bailey is One Grande ‘Dame’: The Harper’s Bazaar Editor-In-Chief is Honored by The Royals.
- Chief Editor Lauren Indvik On the Launch of Vogue Business
- Forbes’ Mark Howard: Advertising is Still a Double-Digit Growth Business
- “300% Increase in New Digital Subscribers”: WIRED’s Nicholas Thompson on Lessons From a Year Behind a Paywall
Read more about people in media in our separate article More Staff Changes at Adweek, InStyle, Teen Vogue, and more…
Images: Cision, Washington Post, eMarketer, NY Post
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Posted by: Monica Murphy
