Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 March 2020

Facebook's usage has gone up by 50% as a result of the coronavirus

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"The coronavirus has ended up a boon for social media giant Facebook, which saw a 50 percent spike in usage as the virus ate its way th...
Tuesday, 27 August 2019

The Boycott of The Sun in Merseyside 'has led to lower levels of Euroscepticism'

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"The report, authored by London School of Economics behavioural political scientist Florian Foos and Zurich University’s Daniel Bischof...
Thursday, 2 May 2019

The Guardian has 655,000 regular monthly supporters

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"The Guardian and the Observer have broken even for the first time in recent history aided by record online traffic, reduced costs and ...
Friday, 8 February 2019

The New York Times made profits of over $50m in 2018

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"Today’s news that The (failing?) New York Times reported net income of $55.2 million, after losses a year earlier — and that its digit...
Monday, 19 November 2018

More than a million people have made financial contributions to The Guardian, including 500,000 ongoing

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"More than a million people worldwide have contributed to the Guardian in the last three years, with 500,000 paying to support the publ...
Monday, 22 October 2018

900,000 people pay for the Guardian through subscriptions, memebership & donations

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"The Guardian now gets more revenue from consumers than from advertising. More than 900,000 people pay it through a combination of memb...
Monday, 3 September 2018

The FT has 930,000 paying subscribers

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"The Financial Times believes it will complete its “march to a million” journey to 1 million paid subscribers next year after a positiv...
Thursday, 23 August 2018

1/3 of the largest US newspaper sites are blocking European visitors due to lack of GDPR compliance

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"Websites had two years to get ready for the GDPR. But rather than comply, about a third of the 100 largest U.S. newspapers have instea...
Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Facebook referrals to Slate have fallen by over 85% since January 2017

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Source:  Data from Parsely, reported by Slate, 27th June 2018
Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Fake news spreads more quickly than genuine news

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"We investigated the differential diffusion of all of the verified true and false news stories distributed on Twitter from 2006 to 2017...
Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Publishers are losing millions of dollars a day due to fraudulent inventory

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"A new study has found massive volumes of counterfeit inventory across global display and video exchanges. The study, which was conduct...
Tuesday, 21 November 2017

The FT has more than 900,000 paying subscribers

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"The Financial Times has surpassed 900,000 paid-for readers for the first time.  Celebrating this success in a note to staff, FT CEO Jo...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

The Guardian has 800,000 paying readers - inc 300,000 'members' & 300,000 donors

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"This significant shift in the Guardian’s business model, making it less dependent on a highly challenging advertising market for media...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

BuzzFeed's live morning show AM to DM is getting about 1m viewers each day

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"Twitter’s making a big push into live video, with deals for pro sports, talk shows, network TV premieres and more. But what does a rea...
Monday, 4 September 2017

3 brands cominate UK news sites - The BBC, The Guardian and Mail Online

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"Three brands (BBC, Guardian and Mail Online) together accounted for two thirds of stories read (63 per cent) and time spent (64 per ce...
Thursday, 15 June 2017

Visitors spend approx 35% more time with pages that use Google AMP

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"Chartbeat says visitors to web pages that load with Google AMP are spending 35 percent more time with that content on average than wit...

17% of Daily Mail readers who voted in the June 2017 General Election voted for Labour

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Source:   YouGov, 13th June 2017
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

60% of the Guardian's Google mobile traffic is from AMP

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"Many publishers have scrambled to adopt AMP, Google’s answer to Facebook Instant Articles. As the Guardian’s experience showed, Accele...
Monday, 13 March 2017

The Guardian has more than 200,000 paying members

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"I’m delighted to let you know that today we have reached an important milestone in our efforts to rebalance the Guardian’s business mo...
Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Premium publishers made approximately 14% of their ad revenues from distribution platforms like Facebook in 2016

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"Publishers are receiving far less money than might have been expected from placing their content on the third-party distribution platf...