• Guardian To Launch First Glassware
    The Guardian for Glass offers updates of the Guardian's journalism with regular bundles of headline stories from the UK, Australian and US editions, as well as breaking news notifications - making it even easier to be up-to-date with the news. Special features include the option to have short summaries delivered in audio, content sharing and the ability to save news items to read later on a desktop or mobile device.
  • Upworthy's Engagement Measure Goes Beyond Click
    On Monday, Upworthy released the source code for the system it uses to measure user-engagement, focused around attention minutes. Upworthy made headlines in early February when it announced the shift away from prioritizing pageviews, instead seeking to identify how much attention users are paying to specific pieces of content. As Upworthy points out, the number of times a piece is opened or shared doesn't always indicate the degree to which users are viewing it in its entirety.
  • As It Readies To Expand, Netflix Finds Friends, Foes
    Netflix is getting ready to strike a partnership in Germany - but in neighboring Austria, it could soon get a new competitor. It will likely be another three months until Netflix's next major expansion into continental Europe, but the streaming video service is already making new friends and enemies in the targeted countries.
  • Front Lines Of US-UK Tablet War
    The way people consume media is taking a more tactile route, with the adoption of tablets booming in all corners of the globe. The US and the UK share a 'special' relationship, and are also pretty similar media markets - so how do they compare in the hands-on media device war? Take a look at this infographic from Usablenet to find out.
  • BBC's Doyle Calls For IPlayer Users To Pay Licence Fee
    The acting chair of the BBC Trust has said the corporation will be putting forward proposals to ensure people who only watch the corporation's content via the iPlayer on computer devices still pay the licence fee. Diane Coyle, the BBC Trust vice-chair who has applied to become Lord Patten's full-time replacement, also defended the existing licence fee system, saying it remains the best funding model for the corporation.
  • Bauer Media Offers Students Content Experience
    Over the course of four days City graduates will work in small teams on editorial ideas receiving guidance from senior Bauer executives including group marketing director Anne-Marie Lavan, MD of advertising Richard Dunmall and Lauren Holleyoake, publisher of Grazia and The Debrief.
  • If New York Times Ended Daily Print Edition ...
    Despite beefing up its digital business and creating large technology and R&D teams to help the iconic news company lead the digital way and depend less on its print edition and more on emerging digital initiatives and opportunities, the report, produced by eight NYT employees, identified cultural and institutional barriers to getting beyond a "print-first" mentality. In other words: The company is going to falter if it doesn't put digital first and dump the anachronistic mindset of "the print edition is still king."
  • Digital Health Competition Gears Up
    The battle to own digital health will escalate this week with Google expected to introduce a new service to collect data from fitness trackers and apps. The tech giant's addition to its mobile operating system, likely to be described in greater detail at the I/O conference in San Francisco, follows Apple's unveiling of HealthKit, Samsung's S.A.M.I. announcement and WebMD's launch of Healthy Target.
  • UKTV Launches First DTC Digital Service
    UKTV Play will offer programming from UKTV channels such as Dave and Watch as "familiar and intuitive" curated collections, by topic, box sets and 'staff picks', as well advance previews of upcoming shows. Features include swipe channel selection, stop-and-resume viewing, predictive search, an alphabetical browser and parental controls. The service will replace the standalone VOD platforms for Dave, Yesterday and Really, though these will still offered as channels brands within UKTV Play.
  • MailOnline Video Views Hit Best Month Ever
    The publishers say: There were 45,933,424 Global Video Views last month, representing growth of 16.4% on April 2014, and an increase of 81.4% year-on-year. This means there was also a record number of average Daily Global Video Views in May 2014. There was an average of 1,481,723 Video Views every day last month, a 12.7% increase on April 2014.
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