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1 week ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Monocle is a luxury lifestyle and current affairs magazine aimed at a globetrotting elite: recent stories have ranged from lists of the 10 most liveable cities (eight are in Europe) to suggestions on solving the housing crisis (one answer: build beautiful) to an analysis piece on Israeli strikes on Iran that begins with an allusion to the geopolitics of 653 BCE. It’s buzzy: but it’s unclear whether it’s on stable footing.
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2 weeks ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Touchpoint Markets may be barely a month old, but this newborn doesn’t want a rattle: it wants granular user data. The publisher of brands like Credit Union Times, Treasury&Risk and financial advisor news service ThinkAdvisor, was spun out of ALM at the start of May, shortly after the legal publisher merged with UK-based Law Business Research.
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3 weeks ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Reports of affiliate revenue’s death may be at least partially exaggerated. The income stream does appear to be under strain: alongside its 21% cuts to headcount announced last week, Business Insider told staff the brand will be “exiting the majority of our commerce business,” citing its overreliance on volatile search referral traffic.
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3 weeks ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Google’s search engine has been sending less and less traffic to publishers. It’s expected to drop even faster now that AI Mode has launched in the U.S. So should publishers even be bothering with Google now? And if so, which bits of its ecosystem are still worth the effort?
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1 month ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Education media group EducationScape is diversifying out of journalism and investing in technology that cuts legal risks for companies far outside its sector. Suppose you’re a 17-year-old apprentice getting bullied by your boss. You’ve never been in a workplace before, you don’t know how to flag the abuse to your training provider without getting backlash and now you’re considering quitting the role.
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1 month ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
You can’t buy guns online in the UK. You also can’t promote guns on Facebook’s marketplace, sell on eBay or even input keywords for Google Ads. So how does a gun publisher effectively market its publications? Hard to say, but Simon Barr, chief executive officer of field sports-focused media business Time Well Spent Group, sees an opportunity in an industry that tech giants have shied away from and is ready to invest in it.
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1 month ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Facebook is being a little nicer to publishers again, but that doesn’t mean there’s any real improved revenue prospects there—yet. At the start of the year, Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said that his company’s platforms would bring back “civic content” after years spent making political and news content less visible.
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1 month ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Nearly three years after ChatGPT sparked a panic over the future of publisher copyright, the machinery of the existing copyright regime is starting to grind into gear. This year a group of UK collective licensing services—bodies that collect royalties on behalf of a given industry—are set to unveil a new licensing service tailored to dealing with the use of copyrighted text by generative AI applications.
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1 month ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn has disclosed that at some points in recent months the publication has been publishing a new story about Donald Trump on average every half hour. But responding to questions about whether Trump had been purposely overwhelming the news agenda, Kahn insisted journalists “have to face that reality” that what the US president does is always newsworthy.
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1 month ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
Editor of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg has said of his blockbuster “Signalgate” scoop that journalism is “a simple business”, arguing audiences “know what a quality story is” and will pay to read it. Speaking at the Sir Harry Summit in London on Wednesday, Goldberg said his accidental addition to a sensitive Trump administration group chat had been “too stupid to be believed”.
