All-you-can-read digital magazine app Next Issue Media is expanding from iPad to Windows 8. The company partnered with Microsoft and hopes that users will want to read digital magazines across their devices. Read more at paidContent »
The arrival of the iPad was supposed to boost online subscription sales for magazines. It didn’t work out that way. But smaller devices like the iPad Mini and Nook are starting to change that. Read more at paidContent »
Digital-replica magazines doubled their share of the North American market in the last year, while printed titles shed a tenth of newsstand sales. But lectronic editions remain just a sliver of an industry that, when it comes to subscriptions, is holding up fine. Read more at paidContent »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Personalized reading app Zite is adding additional publishers to its three-month-old publisher program. New additions include The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hearst’s “Harper’s Bazaar,” the International Business Times and others. All will have their own sections within Zite. Read more at paidContent »
Next Issue Media’s tablet magazines are finally available for the iPad, three months after the platform launched on Android 3.0. Users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue and the New Yorker for a flat monthly fee. So is the cost worth it? Read more at paidContent »
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media goes live with its long-delayed digital newsstand. Users will be able to read popular magazines for a flat fee — if they have a tablet running Android 3.0 or later. For now, iPad and Kindle Fire users need not apply. Read more at paidContent »
Hearst is following Conde Nast’s lead and will start releasing metrics on its paid iPad editions, the company announced today. Separately, t… Read more at paidContent »
– Hearst Newspapers: Lincoln Millstein has been promoted to EVP and deputy group head of Hearst Newspapers, from SVP of digital media. His… Read more at paidContent »
As more publishers experiment with e-singles, Hearst is unique in articulating a specific business strategy for the format: E-singles are “a… Read more at paidContent »
Cosmopolitan (U.S. edition) is the first Hearst magazine to hit 100,000 paid digital subscribers, the company announced today. Read more at paidContent »
In a lawsuit that could shake the publishing industry, a Brooklyn woman is claiming Hearst Corporation owes wages to her and others who inte… Read more at paidContent »
Wenner Media is filling the chief digital officer position that Michael Bloom left in November, after just six months on the job: David Kang… Read more at paidContent »
In a New Year letter to employees, Hearst president David Carey reiterated that the company’s target this year is to reach over 1 million pa… Read more at paidContent »
Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers t… Read more at paidContent »
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, ano… Read more at paidContent »
A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more at paidContent »
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week th… Read more at paidContent »
Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not h… Read more at paidContent »
Hachette Filipacchi UK’s digital strategy director Anna Jones is being made Hearst Magazines UK’s acting COO.
In her place, former iVillage… Read more at paidContent »
With newspapers having suffered through 20 straight quarters of decline — and no end in sight — a collaborative effort on the part of the… Read more at paidContent »
New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away from advertising reliance, and toward 50/50 equivalence… Read more at paidContent »
Apple’s stable of periodicals available for in-app subscription got a little bigger with the release of an update to Reader’s Digest magazine on Thursday. Reader’s Digest is now offering annual subscriptions (10 issues) for $14.99, or monthly subscriptions at $1.99 through in-app purchase. Read more »
Some media outlets are hoping that launching iPad subscriptions and paywalls will supplement the meager revenue they get from traditional online banner advertising, but AOL’s Patch and Hearst Magazines’ digital media are experimenting with some more innovative ways of monetizing their content as well. Read more »
Manilla, a new free online bill management service incubated by media giant Hearst, is now available to the public. It offers to manage and store your bills and lets users set custom alerts to remind them to pay. Read more »
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to announce digital subscriptions for Apple’s iPad, and the deal represents a big victory for Cupertino. The publishers will begin offering The New Yorker via iPad subscription today, with seven other titles to follow by the end of May. Read more »
In an effort to build engagement and increase video views across its properties, local TV news station owner Hearst has chosen Taboola for all its local TV stations sites to provide additional video suggestions for viewers reading stories or watching video on their websites. Read more »
AOL’s recent acquisition of the Huffington Post for $315 million has centered a lot of attention on its content strategy — big part of which is automating and standardizing content that attracts search-related advertising. While there are some clear benefits to this “content farm” approach to content, there are also some significant disadvantages. Here we look at some of the leaders in this sector and their histories, as well as the key risks and benefits of the content farm strategy. Companies mentioned in this report include AOL, The Huffington Post, MySpace, Demand Media, Google and Associated Content. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
News Corp. is doubling down on his bets that paid content will eventually win the day online, by buying the Skiff e-reader business from Hearst Corp. and buying a stake in Journalism Online. But are these just the latest in a series of Hail Mary passes? Read more »
A dozen broadcast TV firms, including Fox, NBC and others, have announced a joint venture to introduce mobile digital TV services in the US. The initiative, which is a continuation of work done by an industry group called the Open Mobile Video Coalition, aims to re-use […] Read more »
The worldwide online market for digital goods will grow amid a state of continuous disruption across all forms of content markets. Fueled by an ever-growing user base, migration from physical formats to digital distribution, and a proliferation of new connected devices, the overall market for digital goods will grow to $36 billion by 2014, up from $16.7 billion in 2009. This report examines the state of paid content and the various monetization and payment models across each of the various digital goods markets. The report examines key players and market dynamics in the film and video, newspaper, online game, music and social networks space relative to their paid content strategies, and includes a revenue forecast of each of these segments relative to the overall paid content market. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The digital media industry is in its infancy, but giants like Amazon and Barnes & Noble are realizing the potential of the e-book market. Although Amazon will not divulge sales figures for its Kindle electronic book readers, analysts estimate as many as 1.5 million have been ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Qik Submits Its Own iPhone Application for Live Broadcasting; with live broadcasting available through a new app from Ustream (details here), Qik has submitted an app with similar functionality for review. (Qik blog) Entertainment Execs Bullish on 3-D in the Home; the growth of 3-D in […] Read more »
Despite new technology that can provide more engaging and better targeted ads for online video, most publishers have been stuck repurposing 15- and 30-second TV spots online, a problem that execs say leads to lower CPMs and a poor user experience. But with advertisers and agencies […] Read more »
