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Delivering a truly remarkable digital experience requires you to personalize your properties based on your users' persona and behavior. Classifying your visitors into different segments, identifying their unique needs and patterns across your digital properties, and...
AI is not just good for your online news website; it’s a must. While AI does a lot of good in our modern world, there comes, of course, a lot of negative sentiment along with it. Many people assume that the jobs that humans now do will be taken over by machines. The...
Almost all advertising dollars are going to the web and mobile devices, monopolized by the big tech giants, leaving scraps for news and media companies to grapple over. We have put together below 5 steps we believe are essential for publishers while developing a good...
Facebook Instant Articles (IA) is a mobile publishing format that enables news publishers to distribute articles to Facebook’s app that load and display up to 10 times faster than the standard mobile web. So, what’s all the hype about? Well, when you hear what some of...
In an effort to encourage users to create better content, as well as minimize the power of influencers and the bogus spam "Likes" they purchase to inflate their value to brands, Instagram and other sites are pursuing the removal of the number of “Likes” that show up...
While Google Analytics (GA) is satisfactory for understanding KPIs, like Pageviews, Unique Visitors, Bounce Rate, and Returning Visitors, GA is built as a generic website analytics tool, good for general online presences, such as e-commerce companies and corporate...
Well, let’s be clear, the need for premium content will always be there, however, the question remains, how can news publishers succeed in an overly saturated digital world? We all know that online publishers face drastic challenges in creating original content,...
There are many ways of attracting viewers to your website – we have selected a few that we find are the most important. Keep checking our blog to stay updated on the latest best practices to drive traffic and engagement to your website. Personalized Newsletters We all...
Even though switching to HTTP2 promises faster and more secure web browsing, it does propose opportunities and challenges for digital publishers – especially if it limits the ability to generate ad revenue. So, should you make the switch? If so, what are the pros and...
Manual tagging is dead. If you are still forcing your team to manually tag content, then you are wasting valuable time and money. Let me tell you why: It’s hard to maintain consistency: even though your team might have clear guidelines on how to tag articles, there’s...
Some of the new digital tools available to publishers today are outstanding – with a lot more coming into the market day by day. Yet, that overwhelming availability is a problem in itself – making it harder for publishers to choose and identify the optimal solution....
Publishers use many metrics to measure their traffic, readership & audience. One of the metrics used is “returning visitors” – usually taken as an indication of loyalty. But how accurate is this? Understanding Returning Visitors: New Visitors are those...
Every now and then, we hear about new terms coined in different contexts. The latest one we’ve come across has been “news deserts” – but what does it mean exactly? The News Desert Lack of local coverage exposes communities to become ‘News Deserts’, where once local...
Using Taboola, Outbrain, RevContent, Plista, or any ‘content advertising platform’ will lead to constant loss of users. This is a very common question that every Digital Media Officer has been asked, or asked him/herself. The direct answer is: content advertising...
Getting people to share articles is crucial to the success of news websites. Sharing increases the reach of the article as well as increasing the chances the article will get a backlink. Both help Google rankings as well as...
News publishers can’t ignore SEO, regardless of the strength of their content or brand. So, here is an SEO checklist customized specifically for online news publishers. SSL Encryption SSL encryption involves securing the transmission of data between your servers and...
Google AMP AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, and it is an open source platform that allows content to be delivered almost instantaneously, with the goal of creating the smoothest, seamless experience for the viewer. AMP format pages are in essence stripped down...
Google has been on a mission, almost since the day it launched, to do things on the internet quickly. This means ensuring its own products are fast, but its recent mission has also included making the whole internet faster, including your website. This is the goal of...
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is the hottest topic in almost any industry now. In this post, I will discuss some of the A.I. tools that help in solving direct pain points in the online news/publishing industry. What I would list first are time saving tools -...
The past two years, and more specifically 2016-2017, witnessed the rise and “fall” of the “pivot to video” strategy for online news publishers. It goes without saying that videos: are more attractive than text => Higher CTR/PageViewsengage visitors longer =>...