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...
Content Globalization Strategies for Media Companies
Taking a Strategic ApproachMedia organizations aren’t likely—or well-advised—to tackle the world as they pursue global content distribution. “Finding mission-critical targets in other territories” is an important starting point, Resnick...
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...
Accenture Acquires Digiplug
Accenture has acquired Digiplug S.A.S., a Paris-based provider of outsourced mobile-content repurposing and distribution services to the music and communications industries, from Faith Inc. of Kyoto, Japan. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Digiplug, based...
How to Protect Your WordPress Site from Keylogger Malware
It’s probably not surprising that WordPress powers 30% of the internet. But you may be surprised to learn that, at the time of this writing, over 2,300 websites run on WordPress were infected by malware, based on data provided (here, here and here) by PublicWWW,...
Ignite Social Media is a Certified Snapchat Partner
Brands that want to attract and retain the attention of the Gen Z demographic need to utilize Snapchat to its full capacity. Last year, Ignite shared that Snapchat was the top pick for this age group. Now, the company has the knowledge and tools to help its...
How to: Change Management in Enterprise Technology Projects
You're responsible for procuring and implementing a new software technology project within your organization. Maybe, it's a new ECM, WCM, or DAM system. You identified your stakeholders, got the budget in your pocket, and lined up a technology selection consultant....
Ebook Sales Slow, Strategies Shift
Remember print books, those antiquated relics of a bygone age that pundits and prognosticators had forsaken and buried a long time ago? Apparently, they're back in vogue and not going away anytime soon, which should make digital publishers and authors sit up and take...
The Difference Between ECM and WCM
All content management is not created equal. There are any number of sub-genres of content management, but two of the biggest are Web Content Management (WCM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). At times, these two may overlap but they are not the same, and each...
A Guide to Digital Experience Management for Media and Entertainment
Today, many companies' digital efforts have transitioned from simple web publishing to more full-blown customer experience management (CXM), as they seek to take advantage of the web, as well as other channels (such as offline, print, and mobile), to conduct core...
Peer Pressure
Where did you sit in the lunchroom? Did you have the "right" lunchbox? Was it right because it came in your favorite color, it was the one everybody had, or it smacked of counter-culturalism? Don't pretend you didn't care what other people thought; you did, and you...
Why Online Customers Respond to Visual Content (Backed up by Data)
The sooner you start producing visual content and sharing it with your audience, the better. Why? The answer is simple—it drives traffic, leads, and sales to your business. Your average customer’s brain is wired to process visual content 60,000 times faster than text....
Embrace the Power of Audio to Elevate Your Storytelling
In 1927, Warner Bros. was a fledgling movie production business that spotted an opportunity: Audio. It was the first studio to produce and release a commercial feature film, The Jazz Singer, with synchronized audio including dialogue. Referred to as the first...
Social Entertainment Platform TaTaTu Launches in Five Countries
TaTaTu, the new blockchain based social entertainment platform that rewards users for watching and sharing content, announced the launch of its platform in five countries including the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and Italy. With its new Android, iOS and web apps,...
How Echo, Google Home, and Other Voice Assistants Can Change the Game for Content Creators
Publishers gave a lot of blood, sweat, and tears getting their content up-to-speed on mobile over the past few years. But that’s a platform primarily geared to eyeballs and fingertips—something they knew a bit about. Now, things are getting audible with...
Augmented Reality Breathes New Life into Print
Ten years: that’s the life expectancy New York Times´ CEO Mark Thompson gave the print version of his newspaper, in a February 2018 interview. It’s a point other publications have arrived at already, either turning to digital-only editions or...
Journalistic Responsibility in the Digital Age
As I write this column, the Newtown, Conn., shooting tragedy is still a raw, gaping wound in the national consciousness. We have seen the face of evil, and those of us in the press who cover breaking news have been left to report on the horror. I'm sad to say we...
Dark Marketing: An Outgrowth of Personalized Digital Experiences
The term "dark marketing" certainly has a sinister ring. It conjures up all sorts of nefarious images—SPAM, phishing scams, and worse. Thankfully, dark marketing isn't quite that bad. Instead, it's a new term for the kind of personalized marketing becoming...