Media businesses come in all shapes, and the World Economic Forum, where I’m spending the week, could be seen as one of the world’s more successful media companies. The Swiss nonprofit, which hosts its big annual meeting in Davos...
After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality. Influencer programs are shuttering. Investment is drying up. And worsening economic conditions are threatening to crush creators and the tech infrastructure behind them.While today’s economic downturn is causing broad pain,...
Social media companies expect age verification measures in the UK’s Online Safety Bill will reduce user numbers, hitting advertising revenue on platforms including TikTok and Instagram.The long-awaited legislation, which will begin its final stages in the House of Commons...
BBC director-general Tim Davie told a Commons select committee on Thursday that it would “not be acceptable” for British democracy if the corporation harmed local news publishers’ online performance.Amid accusations the BBC has leached page views from local news...
Professor Ignacio López-Goñi wondered about Twitter and scientific communication, and Pablo Otero Tranchero, from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, has speculated on what science loses if Twitter fails.Beyond the option of Mastodon as an alternative or plan B, the...
More publishers have begun experimenting with automation to produce content after news of open AI chatbot ChatGPT went viral.But publishers should be wary of how they use AI if they don’t want to displease Google. And ChatGPT, which went...
Scared of needles? Maybe you don’t need to be.At least that’s one thought I take away from a few items in the news lately — that we’re not as vulnerable to outside stimuli as we might fear.The needle in...
Many news organizations and other companies have been highly reluctant to let users cancel their subscriptions online, despite FTC pressure and the fact that people haaaaate talking to customer service.But what if refusing to allow subscribers to cancel online...
Newsrooms are inundated with metrics of impact… today, there exist just too many data points for online activity.Is measuring reach, attention, and engagement — measuring the impact of your journalism?For any story, we know:The number of page viewsThe number...
In the first half of the 2010s, when smartphones became ubiquitous, mobile gaming was exciting new terrain for both developers and players. Here was a new platform, suddenly, in everyone’s pocket, with a touchscreen that was so much easier...
