- Playmaker Capital Acquires Sports Media Platform 'Yardbarker'
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
'Yardbarker' offers a daily email newsletter that reaches more than 350,000 subscribers per month. ...
- Gannett's Sports Betting Deal With Tipico Will Help Diversify Revenue
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, July 28, 2021
The U.S. division of the German sports betting company will provide betting odds for Gannett's sports content. ...
- eBay Says Harassment Faced By Newsletter Publishers 'Should Never Have Happened'
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 23, 2021
Company says it will do 'what is fair and appropriate' to address what David and Ina Steiner endured. ...
- Ecommerce Advertising Can Drive Digital Growth For Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Zenith revised its growth forecast for ad spending to about 11% from its last estimate of 5.6% in December. ...
- Taboola's Planned Purchase Of Connexity Expands Menu For Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, July 26, 2021
The acquisition can help Taboola to offer publishers a bigger menu of options, including native advertising for products and services. ...
- Taboola To Acquire Connexity For $800 Million
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 23, 2021
Taboola on Friday announced its intent to acquire Connexity from Symphony Technology Group for approximately $800 million, several weeks after going through an initial public offering. ...
- How Facebook's Newsletter Platform Threatens Publishers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, July 23, 2021
The main goal of Bulletin is build a stable of writers that support Facebook's goal to keep people engaged on its platforms ...
- NAI Launches Opt-Out Ad Targeting Based On Hashed Emails, Partners Include Google, Verizon Media
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 22, 2021
Google, Oracle Advertising; Neustar; Criteo; Inmar Intelligence, previously OwnerIQ, and Verizon Media have already begun integrating this opt-out feature in their platforms. ...
- Scraping Doesn't Violate Anti-Hacking Law, Press Freedom Group And News Publishers Argue
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 19, 2021
Interpreting the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to prohibit scraping could "outlaw a significant amount of journalism in the public interest," the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, N ...
- Beauty Brands Losing Organic Search Traffic To Publishers, Informational Websites
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Among the top 22 market-share holders in skincare, 17 are publishers or informational websites -- capturing 62.34% of available search traffic. ...
- Google's New Way To Optimize Videos For Search
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 19, 2021
Publishers of video content can now use the SeekToAction markup language to identify key moments that allow searchers to navigate directly to certain video segments such as in a bo ...
- Taboola Powers Personalized News Feeds Now In More Than 80 Countries
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 19, 2021
Taboola, which powers recommendations, on Monday released numbers reflecting the significant adoption of its News product, which can be integrated into the mobile carrier's offering or be pre-loaded on phon ...
- Governments Make Greater Push To Delete Twitter Content
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 16, 2021
India led the way during the last half of 2020, making 128 demands, followed by Turkey with 108. ...
- Meg Marco Tapped As 'Observer' Editor-in-Chief
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 14, 2021
The brand is also seeking to fill several positions as it prepares for relaunch. ...
- 'Newsweek' Debuts Podcast Series Featuring 'Debate' On Issues
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The first "rollout" episode tackles sexual mores in the post #MeToo era. ...
- News Publishers Should Charge More For Digital Offerings
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, July 14, 2021
One important benefit of this strategy is that it maintains revenue and margins from subscribers migrating from print to digital. ...
- Google Fined Millions in France, Allegedly Violated Orders To Negotiate With Publishers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 13, 2021
France's Competition Authority fined Google $593 million for allegedly violating orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers. ...
- 'Sports Illustrated' Operator Maven Adopts Verizon Media's Identity Tool
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 9, 2021
Verizon's solution helps publishers reach audiences without cookies, using first-party data. ...
- BuzzFeed's Public Filings Show Sunny Outlook For Ecommerce
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, July 12, 2021
The company forecasts that its total revenue will increase to $1,063 billion by 2024. Ad revenue won't keep pace with that growth. The big driver will be ecommerce, ...
- News Corp Shutters Knewz
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 9, 2021
News Corp launched Knewz service in January 2020 to fend off search engines and news aggregators such as Google, and Facebook. Now the company is shutting it down. ...
- Study: Publishing Rebounded By The End Of 2020, But Challenges Remain
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 8, 2021
The top digital performers generated 26% revenue growth for the year. But the bottom tier saw a 21% decline, Boostr reports. ...
- Are Auto-Renewals Worth The Legal Liability For Publishers?
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, July 9, 2021
"The Washington Post" agreed to pay $6.7 million to settle allegations it had automatically renewed digital subscriptions in violation of California's Automatic Renewal Law. ...
- Outside's Membership Deal Works With Value-Added Services
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Thursday, July 8, 2021
A key part of Outside's revenue growth strategy will be to entice existing subscribers and readers of its websites into becoming members. ...
- Hong Kong Warned: Tech Giants Could Pull Out If City Enforces Anti-'Doxxing' Measure
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
The Asia Internet Coalition warns rule could lead to an 'overly broad interpretation' and suppress information sharing. ...
- Venture Firm Andreessen Horowitz Debuts Publication Called 'Future'
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
It's part of a trend in which Silicon Valley companies are attempting to control their own narrative. ...
- 'The Information' Starts Pub Focused On Electric Vehicles
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 6, 2021
New product is the first to charge separately for subscriptions. Other niche titles apparently could follow. ...
- IOP Publishing Joins DIMPACT In Bid To Manage Its Digital Carbon Footprint
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 2, 2021
DIMPACT helps digital content providers measure the greenhouse gas emissions they cause. ...
- Hell-Bent On Intent: B2B Publisher Deploys Outside Data To Find Firms Seeking To Buy
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 1, 2021
Breaking Media uses Bombora data to drive tailored content for advertisers. ...
- 'TheWrap' Hires Comscore To Help It Measure Audience
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Comscore will help the entertainment pub measure its audience across devices and screens. ...
- Criminal-Justice Site 'The Appeal' Closes Down, But Staff Will Try To Revive It
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Site will "sunset in its current form," effective June 30. The staff will work without pay to relaunch the product_. ...
