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Fines are fine. But they’re not enough to shake the duopoly’s dominance
Armed with consent decrees, new laws, and new hooks in old laws, regulators around the world appear to be fed up with Google and Facebook—with good reason. The Google Facebook duopoly continues to maintain an unhealthy dominance of the digital marketplace. But will massive fines make a difference?
Continue reading »AI Is the new printing press. Here’s what that means for online publishers
Instead of holding the physical paper in our hands these days, we scroll away on phones or tablets. But publishers are still attached to some old-school tactics that don’t make a lot of sense anymore. Things like above-the-fold, which is a vestige of newspapers that were folded once they hit the stands so that only the top half of the paper was visible to the passers-by.
Continue reading »The threat to CPGs creates advertising opportunities for publishers
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companys’ brand and product mix are massive. But the competitive threats from e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands are significant and growing. Competition has taken a toll and CPG sales have declined. As a result, marketers are spending billions on advertising to safeguard their market share and stay top-of-mind among consumers.
Continue reading »2019 brings renewed consumer engagement with trust of the media climbing sharply
Consumer trust is a vital and a key differentiator for publishers in a competitive environment. Fostering trust, prioritizing consumer rights and offering transparency of data practices is more important than ever before for premium publishers.
Continue reading »DCN’s must reads: week of January 24, 2019
- Variety | Can Hollywood’s Biggest Media Companies Avoid Getting Crushed by Debt? (15 min read)
- Digiday | Publishers see PR behind Google’s news and search tests in response to the new EU copyright directive (4 min read)
- The Financial Times | Davos tiptoes around the questions of Big Tech governance (5 min read)
- The New York Times | If Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Talk, Britain Is Waiting (5 min read)
- Ars Technica | Why Silicon Valley’s “growth at any cost” is the new “unsafe at any speed” (4 min read)
- Deadline | Media Giants Will Pause Merger Mania After CBS-Viacom, Per Wall Street Analysts: “You Need A Motivated Seller” (4 min read)
- Vanity Fair | The Ever-Increasing Cost of Streaming (4 min read)
- Axios | Users rely on traditional news amid misinformation crisis (2 min read)
- The Wall Street Journal | Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year-End (4 min read)
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