Update: In an interesting turn to this story, the New York Times has eliminated 993,000 article pages as it rolls International Herald Tribune (IHT) into the NYT site. Instead of redirecting the articles to the same article on NYT, they all simply go now to one landing page.
UK Online Publishers Predict Digital Revenues Will Grow 16% In
UK online publishers predict their digital revenues will increase by 16 percent this year, according to an annual census survey by the Association of Online Publishers (AOP).
The census was carried out from February 9 to March 2, against the backdrop of economic uncertainty. Digital publishers remain pragmatic about their long -term future of their businesses with 63 percent of online publishers planning to increase their digital investment this year, while only 7 percent anticipate a decrease in investment.
Publishers Collaborate on New Microsoft Advertising Offering
Today Microsoft announced the creation of the Publisher Leadership Council, a group of Web publishers who will consult on the development of Microsoft PubCenter, its next-generation advertising platform for digital media publishers.
4 Helpful Firefox Add-Ons for AdSense Publishers
Google has highlighted a few Firefox add-ons that could be of great use to AdSense publishers. These include:
Online Publishers Doing Well In Slow Economy
Even with a sluggish economy online publishers are doing well and those with solid brands and quality content are poised to succeed according to the president of the Online Publishers Association.
Google Negotiating with Newspaper Publishers
Google already commands the market of Internet advertising, but now the search giant’s appetite seems to be getting bigger by the day. Google’s holding negotiations with several newspaper publishers and cooking up a deal to allow its online advertisers to purchase print space in the newspapers. This move has been a cause for anxiety for many competing media companies such as ITV, who’s chairman Michael Grade has been lobbying to reign in the big giant.
Publishers Push ACAP As Robots.txt Improvement
The Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) debuted today as a set of improvements to deficiencies seen in the robots.txt protocol currently observed by search crawlers.
AdSense Publishers Hurt By Currency Problems
One of the nice things about not having much money is not having to worry about what might happen to it. Sliding stock markets, a poor exchange rate – who cares? Unless, of course, you have something tied up in investments, or are an AdSense publisher who doesn’t live in America.
Publishers Will Become Interactive Media Artists
Books Are Losing Relevancy Google and Amazon are both pushing to sell ebooks directly aggressively. An article in the NYT mentions a new device Amazon will offer for reading ebooks, but I don’t think the problem with books and ebooks is that they need a better reader. Google now allows you to embed book pasages directly in web pages.
Google AdSense Referrals Hiding From Publishers
Using the wrong ad format could be the culprit as members of Google’s AdSense content network have experienced problems in getting referral 2.0 ads to appear.