Category Archives: Digital publishing
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How Google Could Help Attract Paywall Subscribers (it’s a bit of a leap)
Leave a commentTuesday, 7th May 2013 by Simon Hilliard
Micropayments and digital media haven’t exactly enjoyed a happy relationship so far, and this is a bit of a travesty …
Continue readingCategory: Content, Digital publishing, Paid content | Tags: digital content, Digital publishing, google, micropayments, newspapers, Publishing, subscription, Video, YouTube, Zank It
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FT Digital Media Conference discussions on the sounds of innovation
1Tuesday, 7th May 2013 by Simon Hilliard
***Note:this post was originally written by a Racepoint client 7digital, and first appeared on the 7digital blog.*** Last month our …
Continue readingCategory: Content, Digital publishing, Paid content | Tags: financial times, 7digital, digital music, Ben Drury, BPI, FT Digital Media Conference, Panel, Songkick, Soundcloud
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FT vs Guardian: The Ongoing Paywall Debate
Leave a commentTuesday, 22nd January 2013 by Simon Hilliard
The Financial Times has been held up as something of a pioneering newspaper, but its latest digital expansion comes at …
Continue readingCategory: Content, Digital publishing, Media, Paid content, Web | Tags: Barber, Digital publishing, economist, financial times, FT, guardian, Miller, Paid content, paywall
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Top Gear iPad app launches
Leave a commentFriday, 14th December 2012 by Simon Hilliard
Top Gear magazine released an iPad version of popular monthly print issue this week, which launches to coincide with the …
Continue readingCategory: BBC, Digital publishing, Media, mobile, Paid content | Tags: app, ipad, stig, top gear
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Paid Content: All you need is love…and tablets…and smartphones
Leave a commentTuesday, 6th November 2012 by Simon Hilliard
Paid-for news content is having a tough old time in the Internet age. Us readers are so used to getting …
Continue readingCategory: Digital publishing, Internet, Media, Paid content, Technology, Web | Tags: Columbia/Indiana University, Digital publishing, forrester, guardian, new work times, newspapers, Paid content
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Was the BBC’s Playlister all rumours of iPlayer Radio?
Leave a commentMonday, 8th October 2012 by Simon Hilliard
Last week the Telegraph published a seemingly unconfirmed story about the BBC launching a music streaming service. There was talk …
Continue readingCategory: BBC, Content, Digital publishing, mobile, Paid content, Technology | Tags: bbc, iOS, iphone, iplayer, iplayer radio, playlister
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BBC and Playlister: what will the iPlayer of music be playing?
1Tuesday, 2nd October 2012 by Simon Hilliard
The Telegraph ran an interesting, and seemingly unconfirmed, story this morning regarding a new music service from the BBC, called …
Continue readingCategory: BBC, Digital publishing, Technology | Tags: 7digital, bbc, digital music, iplayer, Katherine rushton, Paid content, playlister, spotify, telegraph
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TV news outlets, tablets are yours for the taking
Leave a commentMonday, 1st October 2012 by Simon Hilliard
The youth of the US, they are revolting. Not in the nasty sense, but revolting against consuming TV news. According …
Continue readingCategory: BBC, Content, Digital publishing, Technology | Tags: bbc, iplayer, mobile, news, online journalism, pew, pew research
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What The Times’ new paywall update means for PRs
Leave a commentFriday, 28th September 2012 by Simon Hilliard
It’s emerged this week The Times newspaper is backtracking ever so slightly on its paywall policy. It really is ‘ever …
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The Telegraph vs The Guardian: Who has more readers?
Leave a commentTuesday, 18th September 2012 by Simon Hilliard
Last week the latest National Readership Survey (NRS) figures were released, detailing how many of us Joe publics pick up …
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