Digital Intelligence

With just 2 weeks until the general election, new research shows 15 million Brits are doubling their consumption of traditional news outlets, revealing a backlash against the social media filter bubble and so-called “fake news” on social sites.

25/05/2017  |  Full story...

Growth forecasts for UK digital publishers have increased for the 12 months from December 2016, driven by an annual rise of 28% in sponsorship revenue.

27/03/2017  |  Full story...

Content from social platforms such as Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram saw some of the biggest gains in visibility in Google searches during the last year, while online publications saw a major decline, according to new research.

25/01/2017  |  Full story...

Publishing platform Medium is cutting a third of its staff and closing two US offices as part of a major reshuffle to tackle a "broken" ad-based revenue system.

09/01/2017  |  Full story...

Video inventory management platform SpotX and video discovery and distribution platform Vemba have partnered on a product suite that manages the syndication and monetisation of premium video content.

25/10/2016  |  Full story...

Sport publisher Goal has been named the most shared publisher on social media, ahead of the likes of the BBC, Buzzfeed, Mail Online and The Huffington Post.

11/10/2016  |  Full story...

Fashion magazine Vogue courted controversy last week after it published an article naming bloggers as ‘pathetic’ ‘desperate’ and ‘embarrassing’ during Milan Fashion Week.

03/10/2016  |  Full story...

Amid the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, more than half of UK publishers reported positive growth this quarter compared to Q2 2015, according to new research.

29/09/2016  |  Full story...

Adblock Plus is now selling “acceptable” ads themselves, aimed at replacing intrusive ads with less annoying ones, it claims.

14/09/2016  |  Full story...

Swipe is joining Time Out, NME, and Shortlist as the latest free magazine to hit London’s streets. But this one has a twist: it’s the internet, in print.

31/05/2016  |  Full story...

Adblock Plus has joined up with Flattr to create "Flattr Plus," a system for web users who want to pay online content creators.

04/05/2016  |  Full story...

WHSmith is announcing its latest digital advertising initiative with the launch of digital display screens in the windows of 100 stores across the UK.

04/04/2016  |  Full story...

Online readers are seven times more likely to identify articles as paid-for content when labelled “advertising” or “sponsored content” than when badged “brand voice” or “presented by” according to new research.

17/03/2016  |  Full story...

Oriel Ventures has launched new software that lets publishers analyse, communicate and re-engage their ad-blocking audiences, protecting their content and advertising revenue.

27/01/2016  |  Full story...

AOL has merged six technologies for publishers that had been only available separately into a new offering called One by AOL: Publishers.

27/01/2016  |  Full story...

The Economist has launched 'Attention Buy', a new model that guarantees and trades on reader attention.

04/11/2015  |  Full story...

In a bid to pre-empt Facebook’s upcoming ‘Reactions’, USA Today has started inserting emojis into its newspaper- but readers are giving it the thumbs down.

So the USA today put FB's new emojis in their print edition. It feels so wrong on paper IMHO via @jodiontheweb pic.twitter.com/dv7AhFL1Ke

— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) October 9, 2015

13/10/2015  |  Full story...

Emap, the publisher of Retail Week and Nursing Times, is to be rebranded, with all print editions to be scrapped as its parent company moves towards a digital-only magazine and events business.

09/10/2015  |  Full story...

Online community Reddit has launched a stand-alone news website called UpVoted, but in an uncharacteristic move it won’t allow comments.

07/10/2015  |  Full story...

Ad blockers, ad fraud, and clients becoming content creators are seen as the biggest digital publishing industry challenges, accordingto a new report.

02/10/2015  |  Full story...

Mail Online’s digital advertising grew 16% in the last 11 months ending August 2015, marking a significant drop on the same period last year for one of the world's biggest online publications.

25/09/2015  |  Full story...

Facebook has launched a tool to help journalists find, organise and publish content found on its social network.

18/09/2015  |  Full story...

If you’re an advertiser, Apple is about to make your job more difficult. The latest IOS 9 for iPhones and iPads allows mobile ad blocking and introduces a Flipboard-style news aggregator that favours iAds over rivals. We look at the implications as Apple changes the rules of the mobile ad game…

14/09/2015  |  Full story...

Although 62 percent of publishers find real-time data leads to an increase in revenue, only 27 percent report receiving real-time data, according to new research.

24/08/2015  |  Full story...

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) unveiled the winners of its prestigious Digital Publishing Awards – in partnership with PubMatic – at a ceremony last night hosted by comedian, actor, and presenter, Rufus Hound.

AOP Awards 2015 from Black & Tone on Vimeo.

03/07/2015  |  Full story...