IDG’s stab at the ‘premium’ banner ad

February 05, 2013 Subscribe | View as Web page. THEDAILYBUZZ A roundup of emedia news and views from around the web In this Issue Dwell Media eyes a future of 'contextual commerce' IDG's stab at the 'premium' banner ad How to build better products iPad app downloads grow 8X when developers drop the price Web-based graphics creators could bring production in-house List management: Triple your ROI advertisement Rivista 5 for Responsive Design Magazine publishers rejoice! The Rivista™ CMS from Godengo+Texterity uses HTML5 and CSS3 to publish responsive design websites. Easy to access, modular and monetized – Rivista 5 is revolutionizing website publishing.  Schedule a free demo at texterity.com/inforequest or call 510-423-0379. Dwell Media eyes a future of 'contextual commerce' The concept of integrating content and commerce appeals to Dwell Media President Michela O'Connor Abrams, who aspires to turn the magazine brand into a "design department store." The latest experiment with e-commerce is part of Dwell's evolving multiplatform approach to engaging its audience of design enthusiasts. FULL ARTICLE - eMedia Vitals advertisement Audience Data Got You Down? Download our Ebook! This eBook was designed to help eMedia professionals explore the hows and whys of audience development, database building, and utilization. The process takes effort, but it builds on investments you have already made in content development and audience outreach. Download your free copy. IDG's stab at the 'premium' banner ad How can the banners on your website be more interesting to your audience (read: more clickable)? That is the question that IDG is pondering in an effort to make their banners, in turn, more valuable to advertisers. This can mean eliminating other advertising real estate in order to make room for larger, more interactive banners—an admittedly risky proposition. Here are the pros and cons being considered. FULL ARTICLE - Digiday How to build better products Here are 3 tactics for developers to build rock-solid products: planning, prototyping, and fine-tuning. To what project can you apply these principles today? Here is a breakdown of the strategy. FULL ARTICLE - GigaOm iPad app downloads grow 8X when developers drop the price What is more valuable: app downloads or revenue? iPhone apps that changed their price from $3 anywhere to $1 increased in downloads by 1,665% over a five-day period, according to a survey by Distimo. The company is encouraging iOS app developers to drop their app prices in order to rack up more downloads. FULL ARTICLE - TabTimes Web-based graphics creators could bring production in-house Emerging web apps could make infographic production easier for budget-conscious media companies. For example, Piktochart's updated dashboard is focusing not only on graphic production, like design app easel.ly, but engagement. Piktochart's app reportedly offers designers the ability to add clickable elements, which could make produced infographics more useful as both educational and advertising tools. FULL ARTICLE - 10,000 Words List management: Triple your ROI Effective list management is still too often overlooked by publishers, when money could be made by a few list segmentations. This case study gives an efficient breakdown of how ROI is tripled with list management, and how to avoid list fatigue. FULL ARTICLE - ClickZ advertisement Advertise in the Daily Buzz If you are interested in advertising in The Daily Buzz, please contact Prescott Shibles at (917) 740-0026. You are receiving the Daily Buzz as a valuable member of the eMedia Vitals community. Please feel free to contact us at any time with feedback and comments. Click here to unsubscribe. Our mailing address is: Vital Business Media 122 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 Copyright (C) 2013 Vital Business Media All rights reserved.

How media companies can avoid advanced targeted attacks

February 04, 2013 Subscribe | View as Web page. THEDAILYBUZZ A roundup of emedia news and views from around the web In this Issue Video: Dow Jones grows video traffic 4X YOY FTC suggestions for app developers, companies on mobile privacy How media companies can avoid advanced targeted attacks 7 tips on how to be found in a post-search world 8 social media tools in beta worth tracking Study: What works for B2B social lead generation advertisement Rivista 5 for Responsive Design Magazine publishers rejoice! The Rivista™ CMS from Godengo+Texterity uses HTML5 and CSS3 to publish responsive design websites. Easy to access, modular and monetized – Rivista 5 is revolutionizing website publishing.  Schedule a free demo at texterity.com/inforequest or call 510-423-0379. Video: Dow Jones grows video traffic 4X YOY Further proof that video is the content type on which to focus, Dow Jones reportedly grew its video traffic by four times between 2011 an 2012. How did the media company do it? It started with distributing its video content across 30 platforms and producing hours of content every day. Here's what that effort yielded. FULL ARTICLE - Beet.TV advertisement Audience Data Got You Down? Download our Ebook! This eBook was designed to help eMedia professionals explore the hows and whys of audience development, database building, and utilization. The process takes effort, but it builds on investments you have already made in content development and audience outreach. Download your free copy. FTC suggestions for app developers, companies on mobile privacy Mobile app Path is paying for getting caught with its pants down by the FTC. Here's a bulleted list of how to avoid the same fate from several different perspectives, including what ad networks and developers themselves can do to protect themselves. FULL ARTICLE - Skift How media companies can avoid advanced targeted attacks If mega media brands like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal can be the victims of ATAs, what chance does yours have for maintaining digital security? There are steps that can be taken to avoid cyberattackers, outlined here by Gartner Research Director Lawrence Pingree. FULL ARTICLE - Gartner 7 tips on how to be found in a post-search world Search is increasingly falling to the wayside as audiences rely on apps and other emerging technologies to find information. So how can your content remain findable? Here are 7 tips, including getting semantic, and socializing. FULL ARTICLE - Search Engine Watch 8 social media tools in beta worth tracking New social media tools pop up every day, it seems. But which are worth keeping your eye on as potentially valuable resources? Here is a list of 8 that are still in beta, but that could end up being valuable to your organization. FULL ARTICLE - RazorSocial Study: What works for B2B social lead generation While social media lead generation is still low in the B2B market, 82% of B2B social media leads come from Twitter, according to a study by Optify. Here are key points from the study, including that Twitter outperformed both Facebook and LinkedIn B2B lead gen by 9-to-1, and the importance of Google and organic search to B2B. FULL ARTICLE - The Realtime Report advertisement Advertise in the Daily Buzz If you are interested in advertising in The Daily Buzz, please contact Prescott Shibles at (917) 740-0026. You are receiving the Daily Buzz as a valuable member of the eMedia Vitals community. Please feel free to contact us at any time with feedback and comments. Click here to unsubscribe. Our mailing address is: Vital Business Media 122 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 Copyright (C) 2013 Vital Business Media All rights reserved.

Is e-commerce a waste of time for magazine brands?

February 01, 2013 Subscribe | View as Web page. THEDAILYBUZZ A roundup of emedia news and views from around the web In this Issue Guardian CEO on paywalls, mobile & going global Is e-commerce a waste of time for magazine brands? Top 7 most in-demand tech skills for 2013 6 data-analysis tools anyone can use Are you making any of these 5 ad testing mistakes? Creating vanity URLs in PHP advertisement Rivista 5 for Responsive Design Magazine publishers rejoice! The Rivista™ CMS from Godengo+Texterity uses HTML5 and CSS3 to publish responsive design websites. Easy to access, modular and monetized – Rivista 5 is revolutionizing website publishing.  Schedule a free demo at texterity.com/inforequest or call 510-423-0379. Guardian CEO on paywalls, mobile & going global Andrew Miller, CEO of The Guardian, is dealing with the same decisions that are haunting most media company execs this year: how to handle mobile platforms, whether or not to set up paywalls, what types of paywalls to consider, and whether expansion into new markets will yield advertising revenue. Here are Miller's thoughts on these issues and more. FULL ARTICLE - Niemen Journalism Lab advertisement Audience Data Got You Down? Download our Ebook! This eBook was designed to help eMedia professionals explore the hows and whys of audience development, database building, and utilization. The process takes effort, but it builds on investments you have already made in content development and audience outreach. Download your free copy. Is e-commerce a waste of time for magazine brands? Magazines typically have very specific audiences, which could be conducive to selling topical merchandise. But is the revenue generated from such sales enough to offset the potential relationship problems that could arise between your brand and its advertisers? FULL ARTICLE - The Media Briefing Top 7 most in-demand tech skills for 2013 Hiring an IT exec, web development manager, or other professional that will run your digital offerings can be difficult when you don't really even understand what that person does, or should be able to do. Here is a cheat sheet of 7 key skills your tech exec should have under her belt. (Make special note of #6: IT Project Management—the golden egg of skills for this personality type.) FULL ARTICLE - ReadWriteWeb 6 data-analysis tools anyone can use Data analysis—so important to success, yet so elusive to many media companies without the resources to crunch those vast amounts of numbers. Well, here are 6 free, web-based data-analysis tools available to anyone that cares to take a crack at their data. FULL ARTICLE - GigaOm Are you making any of these 5 ad testing mistakes? We're proud of you for testing your ad creative, an essential step in boosting clicks and conversion rates. But are you making any of these 5 mistakes, rendering your test results moot? FULL ARTICLE - Search Engine Watch Creating vanity URLs in PHP Creating special URLs for specific webpages on your site can be beneficial when promoting campaigns and other specialized content, but be sure your developers are taking the proper steps so that subfolders and header redirects don't result in broken links and wasted eyeballs. Here are 4 steps to creating robust vanity URLs. (And for goodness' sake, do not print URLs on billboards by the freeway.) FULL ARTICLE - Treehouse advertisement Advertise in the Daily Buzz If you are interested in advertising in The Daily Buzz, please contact Prescott Shibles at (917) 740-0026. You are receiving the Daily Buzz as a valuable member of the eMedia Vitals community. Please feel free to contact us at any time with feedback and comments. Click here to unsubscribe. Our mailing address is: Vital Business Media 122 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 Copyright (C) 2013 Vital Business Media All rights reserved.