Media Voices podcast: Positive News' Sean Dagan Wood on building membership around constructive journalism

On this week's episode the Media Voices team talks to Dr. Chadden Hunter, who is a director and producer at the BBC Natural History Unit, and has worked on blockbuster nature programmes like Planet Earth II, Frozen Planet and Wild Arabia. 

An in-depth research study ‘Inside the Mind of Event Attendees’, commissioned by Cvent, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, highlights the preferences and challenges of event attendees regarding the overall event experience and the need for event organisers and marketers to provide more personalised experiences.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has made the Innovation in Media 2018-2019 World Report available in Vietnamese.

Pure-play ad spending in the UK is estimated to have grown by 1,174 per cent in a little over a decade. Between 2005 and 2019, Group M, IAB, PwC, and the Advertising Association report that digital forms of advertising, particularly pure-play, will continue to be one of the main drivers of growth in ad spending.

A Swiss digital news publisher has found their conversion rate of registered users to paying subscribers has increased by five times since they have altered their approach from building paywalls to creating "dynamic pay gates".

After years of shifts, downsizing, and mergers, some magazine media around the world are feeling the pinch. We're all dealing with strained and sometimes non-existent resources, stretched for time, and tasked these days with doing more with less.

It is early days for developing new mobile storytelling formats. Despite some successful prototypes, most of the heavy lifting is still about to happen, says Jacob Gjørtz, VP marketing at CCI Europe. Based on what we have learnt this far, brevity, video and AI will be central to what happens next.

There is a lot of discussion within the content marketing, and indeed the publishing industry in general, as to how recent technological innovations are going to change branded communications. Christine Beardsell, chief content officer and board member of C3, and presenter at DIS 2019, is among the figures leading the conversation. 

Last year Facebook hired Jesper Doub, who was then CEO of German media giant Spiegel Online, to lead its new media partnership team. In the past the high profile executive has been both a critic of Facebook and a passionate advocate of its Facebook Journalism Project.