The Winning Formula for Newspaper and Magazine Publishing Profitability
Publishers are turning to new video monetization technologies in order to remain competitive. However, incorporating video has met with limited success because many of the current models are either outdated or costly and ineffective. Publishers are faced with the...
Why Ebooks Fail as Research Tools
A student turns her tablet on to read three chapters assigned to her this week. As she reads, she comes across a topic that she would like to learn more about. She leaves her ebook, opens a web browser and runs a search. The ebook might be a great source of...
How Serious is Mark Zuckerberg About Keeping Facebook Data Private?
On March 6, Mark Zuckerberg made a commitment to spending the next several years reorienting Facebook’s apps toward encryption and privacy. Can we take him at his word? Find out what digital marketing and data privacy experts think.YesKevin Kish is privacy...
Publishers Make a Fraction of Revenue From Third-Party Platforms: Here’s What To Do About It
Digital publishers eager to reach more eyeballs often turn to external distribution platforms to disseminate content to the masses. But new research reveals that this strategy may not be paying off as effectively as digital content providers have banked on.In fact,...
What Counts as a Newspaper?
When I was a kid, we subscribed to morning and evening newspapers, we sat down with Walter Cronkite each night, and most debates were settled by consulting the Encyclopaedia Britannica. User participation was limited to sedate letters carefully typed out and mailed to...
Compelling Customer Experiences Build Trust And Loyalty
There’s a power shift happening in the customer journey, wherein audiences rather than brands are in control. Brands are operating in an environment where trust in corporations, advertising, and political leaders is diminishing rapidly. This puts customers in...
How to Realize ROI From Personalization
Want a happier reader? It's no secret that offering more personalized content can increase engagement. Need proof? A recent Yahoo white paper, "The Balancing Act: Getting Personalization Right," revealed that nearly four out of five consumers desire some kind of...
A Guide to Customer Data Solutions: Tools That Extract Meaning
Campaign Management ToolsAlterian Marketing SuiteAprimo Marketing StudioAprimo Relationship ManagerInteractive Marketing HubUnica SuiteEpiphany MarketingNeolane CampaignSiebel Enterprise Marketing SuitePortrait SuiteResponsys Interact SuiteSAP CRMCustomer Intelligence...
For Content Marketers, Natural Language Generation is a Lifesaver
The growth of content marketing and the need for marketers to populate an expanding number of channels with high-quality content is keeping marketing executives up late at night. As the amount of content needed to create superior customer experiences continues to...
Where Does the Good Will Go? Long-Term Effects of Social Media Marketing
Word-of-mouth has long been the best way to advertise a product, but how long does that buzz last -- especially in the digital age? A new study says that customers-turned-volunteer "brand advocates" are still much more likely to buy and recommend products than they...
Pathlore Releases Learning Management System Version 6.0
Pathlore Software Corporation has released Pathlore Learning Management System (LMS) 6.0. Release 6.0 is an upgrade to Pathlore's existing enterprise LMS suite. Pathlore develops software that delivers, tracks and reports on corporate training over the Internet.The...
Going Public: The Impact of IPOs on Digital Content Companies
Opportunities and CompromisesUltimately, going public is no different for a company selling digital goods and services than it is for those selling physical widgets, insists Lise Buyer, principal and founder of the Class V Group, LLC near Palo Alto, Calif."Becoming a...
Digital Globalization is a Marketing and Communications Leader’s Best Friend
In the digital age marketing and communications leaders cannot escape challenges put out by customers who are more diverse and demanding than ever. While they are aware digital is global in nature they also know that ensuring a global footprint is not an achievement...
Why Your Brand Urgently Needs to Tap into Multi-generational Marketing
If you're one of the many businesses who focuses exclusively on the so-called "grey pound," you're missing a trick. The boomer generation has long been associated with robust spending power and tons of disposable income, and marketers, as a result, have tended to...
What is Content Globalization?
We’re living in an interconnected world, this should be no surprise. However, there is a gap between acknowledging this interconnectedness and being prepared to share your content with a global audience.Content Globalization means your content is available to a...
Content Management Trends and Innovations
Reasoning for InnovationMehta thinks that a CMS is an extension of the human need to collaborate with each other. "First, we had fax machines, and then email came into play," he says. "But people soon found email had limitations, as didWeb 1.0. The Web 2.0 movement is...
In-App Purchases—Monetization That Works
You’ve downloaded a new app. Maybe it’s a casual game like Candy Crush or a nifty dating app.You’re swiping through pics or crushing candy when a notification pops on screen. You’ve seen this before. “Skip this level?”“Looking...
Programmatic Advertising: The Tools, Tips, and Tricks of the Trade
Data Fuels the MachineProgrammatic offers the potential to reach the right person at the right time for both branding and direct response objectives, but none of that can happen without data. Data is so integral to programmatic that not having a solid chunk of it can...
The Problem With Outsourcing Product Documentation Overseas
India is fast becoming a global content factory. Its affordable, educated, English-speaking population makes the country a magnet for cost-conscious corporations looking to save money on content creation. Indian content factories can oftentimes crank out content...
New England Journal of Medicine Available via EBSCOhost
EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has signed a new agreement with the New England Journal of Medicine to make the journal's content available via MEDLINE with Full Text on the EBSCOhost platform. Full-text coverage of the New England Journal of Medicine will extend back to...