Study: Indie Digital Media Around the World Survived Pandemic Relatively Well PLUS Inside Vox's Editorial Strategy Revamp

November 09, 2021

What's New In Publishing looks at how digital media entrepreneurs fared during the pandemic and found that they did relatively well. Some of this was down to an increase in grants, but they have some detailed figures that paint a complex picture.

What's New in Publishing also looks at how the Harvard Business Review found success on LinkedIn. It seems like a no-brainer, but it shows how being intentional about focusing on a social channel that is relevant to your content is a successful strategy.

Vox has revamped its editorial strategy. The headline is that they are dropping their Identities vertical and weaving the ideas of intersectionality throughout their coverage. It's an interesting look at how a large digital publisher reviews its editorial approach.

PLUS audio updates. Personalised audio isn't working yet, referencing Google's algorithmic-driven audio offering. US newspaper group McClatchy is trying pre-roll ads ahead of its audio versions of articles.

In Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, digital natives are innovating and thriving What follows is the Executive Summary of SembraMedia’s Inflection Point International study of 200+ digital native media, with findings and recommendations on their impact, innovation, threats, business models, and teams.  As pandemic lockdowns spread around the globe in early 2020, advertising rates plummeted and news analysts …

Harvard Business Review has 13M followers on LinkedIn, built up through the sharing of up-to-date news as well as the careful curation of archived content. Such has been the success of HBR’s LinkedIn outreach, it has launched its own TV channel on the platform. The show “The New World of Work” has HBR’s Editor-in-chief Adi …

Google "streamlined" its audio news offerings by ending its algorithm-customized briefing. Who'll figure out the best way for listeners to discover short audio news?

Vox’s mission, as Sharma and her team redefined it, is to still explain the news, but in a way that empowers people with the information and insight they need to understand the world around them.

The audio players displayed near the byline on McClatchy's article pages are getting clickthrough rates as high as 5%.

From imbalanced creator economics and poor security, to centralized control and disgruntled communities, Web 2.0’s flaws have been on full display these past few months.

Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS and Android apps that will let creators record an audio room so that anyone who misses the action live can check it out later. The company first announced that the […]

Consumer spending on home entertainment in the third quarter of 2021 rose to nearly $8 billion, a gain of almost 10% from the prior year’s third quarter, according to estimates released Nov. 8 by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group.