Recent research published by Echobox has revealed Facebook’s hidden penalization algorithm which penalizes publishers based on post frequency.
The three-year-old publisher, Axios, looks set to remain profitable this year, despite difficult market conditions for digital, ad-dependent sites
Details about Google’s licensing deal for news has been released, with the platform pledging to pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years for their content.
As audiences look for immediate updates on key news events, some publishers have gone back to the old-fashioned text message as a way of delivering breaking news and daily bulletins.
A prompt being tested by Twitter which asked users if they wanted to read an article before retweeting it has been so successful, the company is now rolling the update out to the platform at large “very soon”.
Facebook and the New York Times have come together to launch a multi-year augmented reality news project, which will allow Instagram users to access the NYT’s journalism in new ways.
After a European launch in July, Google is expanding its free GNI Digital Growth Program to help publishers around the world.
Podcasts are enabling publishers to grow their audience and diversify their revenue streams.
Newly-released figures from Facebook say that the platform’s video streaming platform Facebook Watch is now used by over 1.25 billion users each month.
The positive effects of the ‘coronabump’ on traffic and subscriptions to publisher sites shows no sign of slowing yet, with a number of publishers reporting recent subscription surges and key milestones.
