Thursday, 10 November 2011

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Making paywalls work: keep your readers and advertisers happy
Hannah Dunbar
10 November 2011, 12:33PM

Over the past year publications including The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist have adopted paywall business models that require readers to pay for online content.

Depending on who you speak to, it will either work or it won't. As the debate rages on and publishers try figure out the best model for their business, the web infrastructure across the globe is improving and it is affecting online news distribution.

High tech lynch squads playing judge and jury?
George Barker
10 November 2011, 11:23AM

News, views and reviews now travel at incredible velocity online. This video reviews how social news can have a profound effect on anyone because the public has already made up its mind on the issue before you’ve even responded to it.

Daily Mail most shared news website, Guardian close second
Dan Leahul
10 November 2011, 10:08AM

Dailymail.co.uk and Guardian.co.uk are the most visible UK newspaper web sites on social networks such as Facebook, StumbleUpon and Twitter, according to some new figures.

The Mail averages about 2.9m links per week, while the Guardian is linked about 2.5m times per week, according to a study by Search metrics. The Telegraph (0.88m links), Independent (0.61m) and the Sun (0.2m) rounded out the top five.

Doomed to fail >> HSBC plans to develop its "own version of Facebook"
@gordonmacmillan
10 November 2011, 9:50AM

UPDATE -This story has just taken a little turn. HSBC says that the brief to agencies to come up with this plan was a “mock brief”.

But considering the brie was 35 pages long who spends that much time on coming up with a mock brief in such detail?

Guy says huh? And sends AT&T ad viral with Reddit
Polly Becker
09 November 2011, 12:30PM

A not unamusing AT&T ad for and its Blackberry Torch package. That isn’t the important bit it is one of the actors in the spot Nate Dern who posted the ad on Reddit saying that after “three years of auditioning, I booked my first commercial. I say 'Huh?' in this AT&T spot. Just wanted to share”.

How can brands unlock the emotional potential of creative technology?
Simon Whalley
09 November 2011, 11:50AM

The internet has changed the way we communicate and how we consume content. We are no longer just passive consumers of media - we want to immerse ourselves in it.

And, thanks to relentless innovation in creative technology, consumers are certainly getting the opportunity to do exactly that. Whereas TV is restricted to people engaging on a passive viewing-only level, digital has the potential to engage on so many more dynamic and interactive levels.

New York Times digital chief Nisenholtz departs
@gordonmacmillan
09 November 2011, 11:22AM

A week after The New York Times announced figures to that shows its paywall is working its longtime digital chief Martin Nisenholtz has announced his retirement.

Nisenholtz, a former ad man who spent 16 years at the paper, launched its paywall, as well as insisting that social media was crucial to its success, and leaves the paper in a strong place, but with issues to deal with.

Twittter celebrates?top tweeting celebs at #TwitterDinner
@gordonmacmillan
09 November 2011, 10:53AM

Last night Twitter hosted a dinner for what was essentially a bunch of celebrities mostly you imagine to impress the boss CEO, Dick Costolo, who was over in the UK to press the flesh and meet the odd government minister and discuss ideas about possibly banning social media users should we have any more riots.

Twitter struggles to cope with demand as Frankie Cocozza's X Factor exit breaks
Polly Becker
09 November 2011, 9:30AM

At around 1:15pm yesterday, rumours began circulating that X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza had been kicked off the popular ITV show. Alas poor Frankie his rock n roll antics are no more.

Twitter loses its head of communications as Garrett leaves
@gordonmacmillan
09 November 2011, 8:18AM

Sean Garrett, Twitter’s VP of communications, is leaving the company and, of course, he announced the news to the outside world via Twitter although no reason was given for his exit.

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