Tag Archives: digital media

Ed Vaizey puts in the hours for radio and adland

By January 18 2012, 9:00 am Leave a comment

MP Ed Vaizey: “Video has not killed the radio star, and technology is not going to kill the radio star. Video technology is actually going to enhance the radio star… that’s why I’m a passionate fan about digital radio.”

Facebook’s new breed of media apps at a glance

By September 22 2011, 11:37 pm Leave a comment

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has unveiled ‘a new breed of apps’ launched in partnership with a series of media partners, including The Guardian, The Independent and Spotify.

The premise is simple enough, the media apps are based on, and reflect, our lifestyle choices and together they further paint a picture of who we are; what music we like, what news stories we read, and when, and for how long. Read more »

Publishers take a bite out of Apple in 2011

By May 6 2011, 9:28 am Leave a comment

What a difference a year makes; at last year’s PPA magazine conference it was all about Apple and the thrilling potential of its new dynamic piece of tech, the iPad. Read more »

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The battle for America: Mail and Guardian look west

By April 10 2011, 6:05 pm Leave a comment

Guardian & MailOnline to launch in New York

The battle between Britain’s newspapers is about to spill onto the streets of New York, as Associated Newspapers and Guardian News & Media both prepare to launch their first dedicated editorial operations in the city that never sleeps. Read more »

Storm clouds gather as Sky retreats from print

By February 28 2011, 10:52 am 5 Comments

BSkyB’s decision to scale back its market-defining customer publishing business could be an ominous bellwether for the magazine industry; is sentiment being put aside for cold economics? Read more »

Murdoch, I-Level and… Claudine dominate media in 2010

By December 23 2010, 2:57 pm Leave a comment

Vince Cable pictured in The Independent

In terms of commercial media, 2010 was always going to be dominated by one man and one company: Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation.

From the outset we expected paywalls and bundled content offerings (Alesia) to be the order of the day, but no one could have foreseen just where we find ourselves today. Read more »

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Does Rupert Heseltine have the look of success?

By December 10 2010, 2:40 pm Leave a comment


After interviewing Haymarket’s chairman Rupert Heseltine this week, which touched upon life after the recession, The Times paywall and the future of publishing, no less, there’s one comment I’m hearing more than any other: ‘doesn’t he look like his dad?’

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News Int paywall creates around 200,000 digital sales

By November 2 2010, 10:25 am 1 Comment

After months of speculation, News International has finally unveiled figures for its paywall experiment at The Times and the Sunday Times websites; it has generated 105,000 digital-only sales and a further 100,000 print subscribers have activated their digital accounts, since July.

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Why News Corp really pulled the plug on Project Alesia

By October 21 2010, 8:13 am 1 Comment

News Corporation has been
forced to abandon plans for its eagerly anticipated digital news platform, part
of the company’s so called ‘Project Alesia’ initiative, citing runaway costs.

As we revealed this morning, bean-counters at Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate
have decided to pull the plug on the year-long activity when it was
expected to be finalised.

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Publishing failures unite at AOP 2010

By October 15 2010, 2:35 pm 1 Comment

Attending the 9th annual AOP Digital Publishing Summit in Westminster
today proved to be something of a milestone for the UK’s media industry.

Unlike many in the room, I remember the association’s first outing back in 2002. The dotcom bubble had just bust and its messy entrails were still being discovered. The room of mostly traditional newspaper and magazine publishers were still understandably nervous about the implications of the web on their businesses.

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