Digital Media Products, Strategy and Innovation By Kevin Anderson, Consulting Services Director, Kaldor/Pugpig. Digital transformation and product development with a media focus. 89 subscribers 208 issues Subscribe to our newsletter By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and understand that Digital Media Products, Strategy and Innovation will receive your email address.
Mather: Digital subscriptions set to take over print for local US news publishers by 2023 PLUS A 'bunch of (digital) tools' to help journalists' research #208 Sep 30, 2022
Puzzles and games as the top of a subscriber acquisition funnel PLUS How to make sense of Google's Core Web Vitals #207 Sep 29, 2022
Paywalls and advertising: Adopting a product-based approach to balancing revenue streams by @EstherKeziaT PLUS How the UK's Independent is getting advertisers comfortable with breaking news #206 Sep 27, 2022
#205 Sep 26, 2022 Newsletter Life: The pros and cons of Substack as a platform and as a career choice PLUS Axios' publisher talks about the CMS and culture that supports 'smart brevity' via @journalismnews – Casey Newton who left The Verge to write about the major digital platforms via a Substack newsletter
#204 Sep 23, 2022 Niches of the rich and powerful: How laser-focused publishers are cashing in by @bmorrissey PLUS Publishers top priorities according to @digiday – Campaigning journalists can often look down their noses at niche publishers, but many of these busine
#203 Sep 22, 2022 Five things that are a key to a good newsletter PLUS Media companies are facing challenges attracting and retaining talent – I was at the Press Gazette's Future of Media Technology conference yesterday, and during networking,
#202 Sep 20, 2022 The positive changes that the pandemic brought to publishers from @INMAorg PLUS how publishers are tweaking their events and commerce strategies as inflation bites – I'm going to lead off with a piece from INMA in which the group looks back on positive business outco
#201 Sep 16, 2022 How Gen Z are turning off to news to protect their mental health PLUS – Alas, it only seems like yesterday when journalism and media executives were focused on attracting to
#200 Sep 15, 2022 E-commerce, ads and philanthropy: The many ways media are earning revenue PLUS the disappearing legacy of digital journalism – Today's items fascinate me because they demonstrate how much commercial experimentation is going on i
#199 Sep 13, 2022 Data-driven Transformation: Lessons from The Economist and different paths to building a data-driven business from @INMAorg PLUS The 'mobile-only' media habits of Gen Z – INMA is really ramping up their insights into how media companies can digitally transform themselves.
#198 Sep 12, 2022 Lessons from Future's successful publishing model PLUS How poorly managed expectations of product managers are leading to burnout – I was a little quiet last week because Team Pugpig was off on our retreat. In today's edition, we've
#197 Sep 7, 2022 How liveblogs serve users and grow publishers’ revenue from @journalismnews PLUS Why your newsletter open rates haven’t gone up that much from @wnip – Live blogs and other realtime formats are like newsletters in that they aren’t exactly revolutionary,
#196 Sep 6, 2022 ‘Focus(ing) on readers who pay’ with tightening the paywall PLUS discussing build versus buy for publishers – If there is one change of mind that I have had, it is the view about digital subscriptions. I have se
#195 Sep 2, 2022 Have we reached 'peak subscription'? asks @EstherKeziaT PLUS How to improve your approach to push notifications from @RJI – With economic storm clouds building for businesses and consumers alike, publishers and media executiv
#194 Sep 1, 2022 How to successfully execute a dual-transformation at your media business PLUS @r4isstatic talks about product thinking, information architecture and silos with @journalismnews – Almost a decade ago, Clark Gilbert successfully executed a dual transformation strategy at the Desere
#193 Aug 30, 2022 Six tactics to build a newsletter from 0 to 10,000 subs in three months PLUS A publisher steps away from Google's AMP and sees little downside – Hello, after a long bank holiday weekend here in the UK, we're back. We've got a good round of practi
#192 Aug 26, 2022 How and why to conduct experiments to optimise your subscription offer page PLUS @damianradcliffe explains why you need a proper YouTube strategy – David Tvrdon of The Fix looks at how major media companies have fine tuned their subscription offerin
#191 Aug 25, 2022 INMA: News digital subscription growth continues despite audience drop off since pandemic peak PLUS BuzzFeed CRO sees opportunities despite prepping for recession – INMA's Greg Piechota released some fascinating research that shows that despite several signs of a po
#190 Aug 23, 2022 @EstherKeziaT looks at the product journey of a news start-up looking to engage young people PLUS @adders outlines how publishes should prepare for Google's next major search update – An eclectic mix of things today including a couple pieces about media product thinking but also some
#189 Aug 22, 2022 A Twitter Roundup: @fabienne_meijer @dkiesow and @r4isstatic discuss difference between data-driven and -informed decisions, @LisaZane15 on planning a product management career path and @rafat talks on a model for information companies – I tested COVID positive on Friday so I had some time to rest and catch up on media and product manage
