Comments on: Why Rupert Murdoch’s bold bet on The Daily was doomed from the start http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/ Tue, 21 May 2013 13:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: seekpublications http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1272527 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:41:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1272527 This blog is to the point and is a real eye-opener on the difficulties of the press in the midst of the present digital revolution. We all know, or think, that the future of news-related media lies on the Web, more specifically in apps provided by operating systems for tablets and smartphones. Alas, the profitability of the economic model pertaining to these systems remains to be proven. Consumers are adopting the news ways of communicating en masse but as they invested a lot of money in them, they expect – at least in the short term – free content. We all know this will only be possible for a little while more and a lot of media organizations – the written press being a case in point – will simply fold if users do not suscribe in sufficient numbers to their paywalls. Hence, the present predicament.

]]> By: Robert L. Greenberg http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1230509 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:03:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1230509 I always thought that The Daily was reminiscent of the old CD-ROM “multimedia” magazines from the mid-to-late 90′s. Much more about presentation than content. I hope that this doesn’t discourage developers from creating new presentation formats. Just remember the old adage: Content is King.

]]> By: Jimmy Orr LATimes http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1229409 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:20:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1229409 They tried. They experimented. Kudos to them. They had balls. Easy to look in rear view mirror and laugh. They TRIED.

]]> By: Chris Ming Ryan http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1228902 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:32:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1228902 This brings up a broader question of magazines on the iPad or the nook or nexus. The advertising on them is bought and sold the old fashion way — like they were still in print. Shouldn’t the ads be personalized taking in information like what apps I’ve bought and where I surf when I’m on the iPad?

]]> By: statspotting http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1227972 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:57:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1227972 What beats me is the amount invested, and the running costs. You could have built Google with that kind of money. Alternatively, Elon Musk will take us all to Mars.

]]> By: Steve Swannell http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1227618 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:38:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1227618 I live in the UK i had a 30 Day Free Trail. I thought it a good Idea but it was all International news and American Sport. If they had regional and local news plus Premiership Football I would have happily subscribed to it. The iPad is a excellent way to read news but you don’t have to pay for it especially if the content is poor.

]]> By: Luis Hernandez http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1227406 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:07:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1227406 Who would have guessed that a business that can only deliver on one device, with a pay wall, a bloated staff and mushy content would fail? Oh, right….

]]> By: Mark Loundy http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1226825 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:09:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1226825 News Corp tried to innovate, yes. And yes there were a lot of people who thought it was ill- conceived. Either way, non-unique content will die behind a paywall, no matter how deftly packaged.

]]> By: cas127 http://gigaom.com/2012/12/03/was-the-daily-a-bold-experiment-or-was-it-doomed-from-the-start/#comment-1226819 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:06:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=590624#comment-1226819 Jarvis schools the crackhead.

Priceless.

“Paywall zealotry” is the key phrase.

Certain hos are trying to skull-fuc* us back into their walled garden of oligopoly.

Still waiting on those detailed financials (churn, etc.) behind the NYT paywall’s fabled success.

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