How big tech took over the news industry. Last week, Press Gazette conducted a mammoth piece of research to reveal the top 50 news media companies in the English-speaking world currently, ranked by turnover. This research revealed that compared with a decade ago there...
As an UK Ambassador for Women on Boards UK, this topic is very close to my heart. But it goes a lot deeper than the gender gap on UK boards, or the gender pay gap, important as these are. Many marketers are striving to be more inclusive, and importantly, to do more...
Whatever happened to the exciting new websites with mega valuations which seemed to be the future of news? Following the pandemic sites like Quartz, Vice and Buzzfeed and have all fallen back to Earth in a big way. Press Gazette reported last week that following...
Doom, doom, doom Doomscrolling is a social trend sweeping devices around the world. The term was coined in March 2020, as the pandemic began to rage around the world, to describe the unrelenting need to consume an endless procession of negative online news. When...
Content marketing has been a growing source of advertising revenue for news publishers in recent years and according to the Content Marketing Association is worth £5bn a year in the UK alone. But it has been particularly hard-hit by the pandemic. With in-flights...
The Cog Blog (a great resource and friends of ours) wrote a couple of weeks ago about some lessons learned over the years, illustrated with real-life examples. They asked the great Cog Blog reading population to contribute to the follow-up. So we did. “One that...
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