With increased competition in the market, audiences demanding more relevant and topical content than ever before and engagement increasingly difficult to achieve, research is now at the heart of all good publishing strategies. Clarissa Moughrabi, head of research at Axel Springer in Germany explains how her team supports the business’s product teams as well as its wider strategy.

Drivers of investment decisions, multi-channel revenue generation, best practice media innovation, international business and the convergence of entertainment, gaming and media are just some of the topics tackled in the latest agenda for the FIPP World Media Congress 2019.

Africa’s lack of internet access has been well documented in recent years. However, growing access across the continent, together with a rapid uptake in smartphone use, is spurring publishers to change direction.

Henry Ford famously said that if he had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses’. There’s an eerie resemblance between the American industrialist’s maxim and the way many legacy publishers responded to the arrival of the internet. As driverless cars debut on our roads, publishers dare not make the same mistake again.

As the focus on paid revenue models expands, so too does our report, and we are pleased to announce that FIPP will be increasing the publishing frequency of Global Digital Subscriptions Snapshot. Moving forward, we will be releasing data on a quarterly basis, with two major trend reports every year.

Video is king with a growing crown. Nearly all US respondents in a recent Statista survey reported using video download or streaming within the past year, topping usage of traditional channels like TV and radio.

Back in 2014, Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trend Report carried the theme of “re-imagining” throughout her presentation - from messaging and communications to services and money. When she spoke about re-imagining verticals, she shared how more and more companies are adopting an internet trifecta where success is defined as a combination of a critical mass of content + community + commerce.  

Drivers of investment decisions, multi-channel revenue generation, best practice media innovation, international business and the convergence of entertainment, gaming and media are just some of the topics tackled in the latest agenda for the FIPP World Media Congress 2019.

The first ever FIPP Insider events to take place in South Africa will be in Cape Town on 21 August and Johannesburg on 22 August. 

FIPP will host its first media industry tour to Los Angeles’ Silicon Beach later this year. The Silicon Beach Tour will take place immediately following the FIPP World Media Congress, from 14-15 November 2019.

Creator and anchor of BBC World News programme Outside Source, Ros Atkins, is the latest speaker to be confirmed for the FIPP World Media Congress. Not only an experienced journalist who has covered major elections, political summits and, of course, Brexit, Ros is also the founder and project director of the 50:50 Project which works to increase female representation in the media.

Delegates attending the FIPP World Media Congress in Las Vegas in November will benefit from a new partnership between FIPP and SkyTeam Global Meetings.

Kevin Lawrence, leadership coach and acclaimed author, has joined the speaker line-up for the FIPP World Media Congress 2019.

The FIPP World Media Congress 2019 will bring a host of high-profile speakers together in Las Vegas later this year to discuss the issues facing magazine media. But, as FIPP CEO James Hewes and event Chair Linda Thomas Brooks explain, it aims to offer a whole lot more too…

Africa’s lack of internet access has been well documented in recent years. However, growing access across the continent, together with a rapid uptake in smartphone use, is spurring publishers to change direction.

With increased competition in the market, audiences demanding more relevant and topical content than ever before and engagement increasingly difficult to achieve, research is now at the heart of all good publishing strategies. Clarissa Moughrabi, head of research at Axel Springer in Germany explains how her team supports the business’s product teams as well as its wider strategy.

Henry Ford famously said that if he had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses’. There’s an eerie resemblance between the American industrialist’s maxim and the way many legacy publishers responded to the arrival of the internet. As driverless cars debut on our roads, publishers dare not make the same mistake again.

eSports and publishing might seem worlds apart but, as former Olympic coach and eSports psychologist Mia Stellberg explains, rapidly changing marketplaces, technological disruption and the need to maintain a competitive edge mean they have more in common than you might think.

Hannah Williams is head of digital content for BBC Good Food, an Immediate Media-owned brand with a 30 year old legacy in print and digital. Here, she talks to us about the publication’s successful first steps into the world of voice. 

As publishers try to make sense of the ‘attention economy’, there’s a slow drift towards building revenue models around rewarding users for their attention. Not in currency, but rather in decluttering their online experience from advertising. Is this the middle ground between paywalls that lock away quality content and the mishmash of trying to broaden reach with free content?

With the rapid pace of innovation and change in the world of media showing no signs of letting up, we explore the trends that industry leaders and FIPP World Media Congress speakers are seeing in the European publishing sector right now.

Future Media Group has acquired W from Condé Nast. The acquisition will bring W together with Surface and Watch Journal to form Future Media Group. The Group will continue to publish eight print issues of W annually while also expanding the brand's digital and experiential footprint.

Wainscot Media, a provider of publishing and content marketing solutions based in the USA, has acquired 9Threads, publisher of two prominent B2B fashion magazines and its associated properties.

Authentic Brands Group (ABG), a global brand development, marketing and entertainment company, today announced that it has finalised the purchase of the intellectual property of Sports Illustrated from Meredith Corporation. This acquisition adds a new vertical to ABG's growing platform and portfolio, which currently generates over US$9.3 billion in global retail sales annually.

Video is king with a growing crown. Nearly all US respondents in a recent Statista survey reported using video download or streaming within the past year, topping usage of traditional channels like TV and radio.

As the focus on paid revenue models expands, so too does our report, and we are pleased to announce that FIPP will be increasing the publishing frequency of Global Digital Subscriptions Snapshot. Moving forward, we will be releasing data on a quarterly basis, with two major trend reports every year.

'Paywalls: How to start your subscription strategy' is a comprehensive report about how media companies can start a subscription monetisation strategy. Focussed on the international publishing industry, the report is an in depth analysis of how to build lasting and profitable relationships with readers.

On this week’s episode of Media Voices, the Guardian’s chief revenue officer Hamish Nicklin takes us through the newspaper’s journey to profit through membership and contributions, the reestablishment of ‘premium’ advertising, and its plans through to 2022.

Content performance analytics company Content Insights conducted a study to know how much publishers can benefit from their loyal readers.

The first internet ad appears in 1994, and we’ve been forecasting the rise of internet advertising ever since – and we’ve often found that its growth has exceeded our expectations. In our latest edition of our Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on 8 July, we forecast for the first time that internet advertising will exceed 50per cent of the ad market 

Most users learned about new smart speaker skills through friends and family, receiving emails from smart speaker brands, and searching their smart speaker app, according to a new report released by NPR and Edison. Publishers can proactively take steps so that their content gets discovered via voice.

Back in 2014, Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trend Report carried the theme of “re-imagining” throughout her presentation - from messaging and communications to services and money. When she spoke about re-imagining verticals, she shared how more and more companies are adopting an internet trifecta where success is defined as a combination of a critical mass of content + community + commerce.  

There’s a major problem facing communities everywhere — local news is losing the competition for advertisers to the duopoly (Facebook and Google). These two firms account for around 70 per cent of all digital ad spending globally, which has forced closures and cutbacks and severely threatened the future of journalism.