Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London The economics of attention in a many-to-many commu nication environment has posted a serious challenge to public broadcaster BBC. Innovation is the key to assemble and retain engaged audiences without sacrificing their public service values, says David Caswell, the product lead at BBC Design & Engineering at BBC... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London Smart speaker sales have grown faster than any other consumer technology in recent years. As a new medium, it poses serious threats but also opportunities for media organisations. As the world’s leader in audio content, the BBC wants to retain its position. Hence, the BBC Voice & AI... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London Over the past year, data journalists on the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team have fundamentally changed how they produce graphics for publication on the BBC News website. And one tool proves to be of great help – R, a programming language and free software environment for statistical... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London The Guardian’s 10+ cross-disciplinary product teams use data and insight, product frameworks, objectives & key results (OKRs) and design thinking principles to drive revenue outcomes, says Sarah Laughton, Group Product Manager of Reader Revenue at the Guardian. Ms Laughton was speaking at the Product Development and Design Thinking... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London The Financial Times has created its own engagement metric based on audience data that serves as its North Star and correlates directly with retention, user value and commercial, says Gadi Lahav Weislovits, Head of Product at FT.com. The magic formula contains “Recency” – how recently a reader visits... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London In the face of media industry’s next big disruption brought by the development of technology, it’s essential for the media companies to seek to drive revenue and expand audiences by leveraging data and artificial intelligence, says Martha Williams, CEO of World Newsmedia Network. Ms Williams was speaking at... Read More →

By Joanne Kuai “Record-breaking high price home sold in your city!” “Your local football team won 7:0 at the championship!” How do you know? Your robot journalists bring you the latest news! United Robots CEO Karlsson introduces how their automated content bots are writing up automatic real estate listings and thousands of sports texts every week,... Read More →

By Anisa Holmes   Today, the most successful paygate models are those that are highly personalized, dynamic, adaptable, and data-driven. But, they haven’t always been this way. In his presentation, Group Head of Digital Product at Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Rouven Leuener, provided a quick look at the evolution of their paygate over the past... Read More →

By Anisa Holmes   For those who believed reader loyalty was a thing of the past, MittMedia is proof of the opposite. MittMedia is an impressive media company, representing over half of Sweden’s territory, but what is most notable is how they built a stable subscription service and boosted ad revenue without alienating their readership.... Read More →