Mather Report with David Clinch
David Clinch
#MediaRevenue Consultant at MGP. VP Partnerships - Mather Economics. #MediaRevenue
Lots of great #MediaRevenue stories this week. I love stories about quality, authoritative news publishers showing success in their subscription, membership and advertising business. It is not only possible to have a successful revenue strategy, it is also possible to do it while prioritizing journalism and serving user needs at every step.
Our?Mather Strategies?consultancy?team is growing and we will be announcing some new additions to the team soon.
Always?let me know on Twitter?if you spot any?#MediaRevenue?stories I may have missed. If you have any questions or comments about these updates,?please get in touch.?
Here is this week's curated selection of?#MediaRevenue?news:
"Annual revenues up by 13% to ￡255.8m, aided by increased contributions from online readers."
"Company is eyeing markets like France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia and parts of Africa, beginning this year. Looking to expand consumer subs biz globally."
"Money magazine, once a prominent Time Inc. title, is profitable again in online-only form as a niche consumer finance brand."
"NBC’s ‘Today’ used to have a laser-like focus on its main rival, ABC’s Good Morning America. As the show expands digitally, producers are targeting fans of lifestyle magazines like Vogue and People."
"Facebook is reallocating resources from its Facebook News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin, as the company focuses more on the creator economy."
"Informa buys US B2B publisher Industry Dive for ￡323m"
"Entertainment Studios Networks is buying the network's assets."
"Disney highlights value of its streaming bundle by increasing price of ESPN+ 43% to $9.99 per month."
"Netflix talked to Google and Comcast about its ad business. It picked Microsoft because it possessed certain “fundamentals,”"
"Katrina vanden Heuvel: The government needs to invest now to revive local journalism — a public good that is essential to democracy."
"Susan Clark knew that print newspapers had lost ground to the Internet. But in her Connecticut hometown, “we just desperately needed a paper.""
"...has shaken up its?events?division?Hearst?Live, rebranding it as HearstX and creating more immersive digital experiences than before using lessons learned during the?Covid-19?pandemic and new technology."
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