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• [Publishing during a pandemic] Content innovation: reconnecting with readers

  As the Covid-19 outbreak continues to change people’s lives, it’s also altering what they want to read. For publishers, assessing what your readers now need - and striking the right balance between informing and entertaining - is a crucial part of forging a way forward.

  Published 07 July 2020 Features
• Condé Nast Britain releases insight report on changing consumer behaviour in response to Covid-19

  Condé Nast Britain has released its first insight report from its newly revamped research department to help brands navigate the new normal. The insights report, “Looking Beyond Lockdown - Changing Consumer Behaviour in Response to Covid-19” was conducted by asking over 2,500 consumers and hosting online interviews with proprietary communities.

  Published 10 June 2020 Insight News
• How to make your podcast the talk of the town

  The figures are in and it’s official – podcasts are popping up like mushrooms all around the globe. As new platforms are being developed to turn text articles into a spoken-word format for on-the-go ‘readers’, it’s a format that simply cannot be ignored by publishers.

  Published 09 June 2020 Features
• How to make copy creative and profitable

  With a surfeit of tools these days, creativity is easier to accomplish than ever. There is a caveat, however. During these tough times creative content has to have a measurable purpose within your business. How, for instance, does it tie into the subscription strategy?

  Published 02 June 2020 Features
• Publishing solution software WoodWing launches WoodWing Assets and WoodWing Studio

  These are the newest versions of WoodWing's existing key products, Elvis DAM and Enterprise Aurora.

  Published 02 June 2020 Industry News
• Trending terms: what lockdown Brits are reading about online

  Search terms that were trending in the UK in the food category during the heart of lockdown were - surprisingly - not “home delivery” as many would have expected but rather “Heinz”, “Jigsaw”, “Puzzle” and  “Kodak”. Why? Both Heinz and Kodak offered customers puzzles, an answer to lockdown boredom.

  Published 21 May 2020 Insight News
• Download new Global Digital Subscription Snapshot 2020 Q2

  An extraordinary shift in media behaviour patterns during an extraordinary time: The arrival of Covid-19 has brought about a dramatic shift in media behaviour globally. As people’s freedom of movement is severely restricted, they have flocked to high-quality content providers as they seek out entertainment, escapism, inspiration and trustworthy news coverage. 

  Published 28 April 2020 Insight News
• Erica Anderson, Executive Producer Vox Media on building multiple media channels

  One of the big concerns that publishers have had in recent years is keeping staff away from the lure of the big tech platforms. Yet, for a number of reasons, there does appear now to be a trend of talent heading in the opposite direction.

  Published 24 February 2020 Features
• The commercial potential of thoughtful longform content

  Zetland is a Danish media company that aims to take its audience behind the news via the several longform stories and the podcast it issues each day to its 20,000 subscription paying members.

  Published 25 November 2019 Features
• Hatebase’s Timothy Quinn on the rise of hate speech and what the media can do to counter it

  Monitoring and responding to hate speech is becoming an ever increasing problem for governments, social platforms, the media and brands. In order to react to hate speech companies first have to detect and understand it — often a very difficult process given the way that languages evolve.

  Published 31 October 2019 Features