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This week, the world celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD), which is full of accomplishments and achievements acknowledged by other female leaders and professionals or by themselves. The 2024 theme for International Women’s Day is Inspire Inclusion. The inspiration for inclusion in leadership positions and contributions to industry events (including our own) in the past year […]
Founded in 2012 by Scott Purcell and Frank Arthur, Man of Many is an Australian independent digital publication on men’s lifestyle. Earlier this year, Man of Many partnered up with NBC Universal to create an immersive experience for the premiere of Argylle in Sydney. Featuring a curated guest list of more than 400 attendees, this […]
Jan Thoresen is a CEO of Labrador CMS – a cloud based Content Management System (CMS) for professional publishers and newsrooms that grow fast. The landscape of Content Management Systems (CMS) in the realm of digital publishing and newsrooms is rapidly evolving. The shift toward headless CMS solutions is gaining momentum among publishers seeking greater […]
Jeremy Fremont and Vahe Arabian explore The New York Times, one of the longest-running newspapers and a prolific digital media publisher.
As publishers, we all know the way to reach an audience is by anticipating demand and getting ahead of its peak by providing timely value. However, do AI-assisted features help aid the user’s journey to purchase?
In this special WordPress seven-part teardown series, Jeremy Fremont and Vahe Arabian explore The Harvard Gazette.
In this special WordPress seven-part teardown series, Jeremy Fremont and Vahe Arabian explore Time.com.
In this podcast episode, the hosts analyze WIRED, a community revenue-driven futurism publication. They discuss how WIRED has added different layers of evergreen content types and conversion avenues without compromising its core audience. The hosts highlight Wired’s focus on monetization avenues, including subscriptions, affiliate revenue, and merchandise sales. They also explore Wired’s unique strategy of […]
In this episode, Vahe Arabian and Jeremy Fremont review TechCrunch, focusing on its subscription product and revenue streams. They discuss the recent news of TechCrunch shutting down its subscription offering and explore the reasons behind this decision. The co-hosts analyze TechCrunch’s website design, user experience, and SEO issues. They highlight the unique navigation bar on […]
In this podcast episode, the hosts, Jeremy Fremont and Vahe Arabian, explore Vibe.com, an American music and entertainment magazine. They discuss how VIBE.com has stayed true to its audience and grown its content operations. VIBE.com, founded in the 2000s by Quincy Jones and David Salzman, focuses on hip hop, music, and celebrity news.. The website features […]
Today, Google has begun moving away from third-party cookies with its commencement of tracking protection, a feature that limits cross-site tracking for 1% of Chrome browser users. While there is currently little to do on this particular update because, as shown in the feature screenshot below, users will be randomly chosen, it is a part […]
Google News should be the focus of any digital media and content publisher, given the traffic it drives to news sites every month. It’s been some years since Google last provided a news traffic analysis, but in 2020 it said it sent “Google users to news sites 24 billion times” every month. This equates to […]
Over the past two months, publishers have been slammed with 4 Google system and algorithm updates, particularly the Helpful Content Update (HCU) and core algorithmic update, resulting in traffic slippages across the board. While my industry colleagues across the board have provided their winner and loser analysis on queries and niches, we’re still focusing and […]
Audience monetization is a key issue for every digital publisher. While ad revenue remains a reliable strategy for many outlets, some may be better served by implementing a paywall. The pandemic demonstrated that reliance on a single stream of revenue can be risky. Ad revenue fell 3.1% in 2020 before rebounding 22.5% in 2021. With […]
Video Transcript: 00:00 Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. It’s been a while since I’ve recorded in person, and for this week’s editor’s note, I wanted to share some updates with you. Instead of struggling with writer’s block and spending a lot of time putting words together, I thought I’d share some insights […]
This week I held one of our panelist sessions in the lead-up to the WordPress Publishers Performance Summit (WPPS) summit in a few weeks, which is today’s editorial note inspiration. Publishers are always under pressure to find any incremental cost-cutting that makes a wide impact-organization wide. Andrew has gone to great lengths into generative AI […]
