• The Outlook For Digital Journalism In Year Ahead
    Seven industry experts share their predictions for digital journalism in 2013. They are key figures from the New York Times, WSJ.com, FT.com, the Daily Post, plus an academic, the founder social news agency Storyful, and a leader in B2B who is also chair of the Association of Online Publishers. There are predictions around mobile, paywalls, social media platforms and more. If you would prefer to hear them explain their predictions, you can listen to them speaking in this podcast.
  • LeapFrog, Nickelodeon In Content Deal
    Educational kids' entertainment provider LeapFrog Enterprises has struck an international deal with Viacom International Media Networks to bring Nickelodeon content to its platforms. Through the deal, learning content from Nickelodeon series including SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer will be available on LeapFrog's kids' learning tablet LeapPad1 and LeapPad2, as well as learning video game systems Leapster Explorer and LeapsterGS.
  • Daily Mail Says 'Block Online Porn' Effort Worked
    The Daily Mail claimed a double campaign victory this morning including its drive against online pornography. The paper's 'block the online porn' campaign claimed victory after Prime Minister David Cameron said that under the proposals web filters will be 'default on' for houses with children, which parents will have to choose to have lifted. Writing for the Mail, Cameron said: "To me, the fact that so many children have visited the darkest corners of the internet is not just a matter of concern - it is utterly appalling.
  • France's Deezer Out With Freemium Model
    French music service Deezer has launched an ad-funded version of its service in the UK as it continues to aggressively drive its global expansion and become a household brand. The service, which claims 3 million subscribers globally, is rolling out its freemium version in 150 countries worldwide with the view to netting some of the 600 million people living there.
  • Mail Online Goes Over 7 Million Uniques Per Day
    Mail Online grew its traffic by almost 7% month on month to crack the 7 million daily unique browser barrier for the first time in November, making it almost twice the size of the next biggest national newspaper website. Daily Mail & General Trust's website network grew its daily unique browsers by 6.56% to 7,109,203 in November. Monthly unique browsers rose by 5.72% to 112,167,402 compared with October, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday.
  • Video Behavioural Targeting Down In Q3
    Behavioural targeting for video dipped in the third quarter, with 18.5% of video ads served using the method, compared to 19% the previous quarter, according to research from addressable audience platform Videology exclusive to The Drum. The report, based on 400 million video ad impressions in the UK, tracked all video campaigns run across the Videology client portfolio during the third quarter of 2012.
  • Pirate Party UK Shuts Proxy Service After Threats
    British Phonographic Industry had sent a letter to the Pirate Party UK requesting it closed the service. Pirate Party UK has shut down its Pirate Bay proxy service following threats of legal action from the BPI. Pirate Party UK chief Loz Kaye said: "Elected members of the party's National Executive Committee, along with the head of IT, received letters from lawyers acting for BPI, threatening them personally with High Court legal action."
  • Unmissab.ly To Aggregate Stories From Social Feeds
    Trinity Mirror is building a platform called Unmissab.ly which will aim to help users monitor the news agenda "without spending hours trawling through their Facebook and Twitter feeds". Unmissab.ly will offer users a live feed of the top stories being shared by their contacts on social networks. The platform, which is currently in beta and open to public testing, shows users stories which it believes are likely to interest them the most. Currently Twitter and Facebook accounts can be linked to the service.
  • Metro Readies Christmas Tablet Edition
    Free urban newspaper the Metro is to release a Christmas edition via tablets and smartphones this year. Six editions will be run daily from 25 January to New Year's Day, the paper announced today. The issues, which can be downloaded via iTunes and Google Play, will look back on the biggest news stories of the year in two-month installments.
  • Guardian Back On Top In Combined Readership
    The Guardian has returned to the top of the tables among 'quality' newspapers in the latest National Readership Survey's Print and Digital Data report for combined monthly readership across print and online. The Guardian recorded a combined readership of 8.96 million in what is now the third release from the NRS PADD report. When the report was first launched in September, the Guardian also had the highest combined readership among 'quality' newspapers, with 8.95 million.
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