by Eddy Touma | Oct 2, 2019 | Audience Engagement, Magnet for Publishers, Online Media
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...
by Eddy Touma | Sep 11, 2019 | Audience Engagement, Online Media
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...
by Eddy Touma | May 20, 2019 | Audience Engagement, Magnet for Publishers, Online Media
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...
by Eddy Touma | Apr 16, 2019 | Magnet for Publishers, Online Media
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...
by Eddy Touma | Mar 27, 2019 | Audience Engagement, Magnet for Publishers, Online Media, Personalized Newsletter, Personalized Recommendations
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 getting more eyeballs on the article and,...