Matt McAlister has been working in digital publishing for a long time now, including a stint at The Guardian as director of digital strategy, so he has a long memory when it comes to the relationship between publishers and platforms like Google and Facebook. McAlister now runs a media research
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Sovrn, the company that helps publishers maximise revenue, has become the first significant partner of the anti fake news service, Factmata, MarTechAdvisor reports. The machine-learning platform is designed to help alert publishers to fake news and has been invested in by Twitter co-founder Biz
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The tool, called a consent management platform (CMP) in regulatory parlance, hasn't been publicly released or shared with DoubleClick For Publishers customers, even though the deadline for compliance is just three weeks away. It restricts the number of supply chain partners a publisher can share
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Bloomington, Ind., May 03, 2018 — Solution Tree, a premier educational publisher and professional development provider, announces that two of its … Book Awards were conceived in 1996 as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry.
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Smaato, an advertising platform for mobile publishers and app developers, has integrated with Amazon Publisher Services (APS) to give in-app demand partners access to Amazon's Transparent Ad Marketplace inventory, according to a press release. Publishers using Amazon's services can now use a
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The business model for the news industry is in a fragile state, with the digital platforms preventing publishers from best positioning their operations for the future. This is why the … Google and Facebook, in particular, like to highlight the “good work” they are doing for journalists and publishers. But I would
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And wherever you are, if you've ever signed up for a publisher's newsletter and gotten a spate of “please confirm again that you really want this newsletter now” and “please see how our privacy policies have changed” emails lately, GDPR is why (some organizations may have collected your information
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I was genuinely shocked to see the comments about Gollancz in Livia Gollancz's obituary published in The Bookseller. To describe a beloved publishing list as “merely a science fiction imprint” and its last two decades as a “tragedy” is offensive to my colleagues; our authors and fans; our reviewers and
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And during breaking news it would become a place to go to find whatever the most important stories of the day are. It's a big step for us, and we're just starting to figure this out with a handful of publishers who are going to be the early testers. I think there is real potential for us to create a destination for
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The 165-year-old Vermont Standard has its first new publisher in 38 years, according to Phil Camp, Sr., owner and president. Newspaper industry veteran Dan Cotter began his duties as the 11th publisher in the history of the paper on Monday, April 30. Cotter has broad newspaper experience in New
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Macmillan Children's Books. Pan Macmillan UK is one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, with imprints including Macmillan, Mantle, Pan, Picador, Bluebird, Bello, Macmillan Children's Books and Macmillan Digital Audio. Pan Macmillan is part of the worldwide Macmillan Publishing Group.
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Dilk was named Carmel High School's first Miss Basketball at the IndyStar Indiana Sports Awards banquet April 29 at Clowes Hall in Indianapolis. Dilk. “Miss Basketball has been a dream of mine for many years,” Dilk said. “I turned that dream into a goal during my high school years, and I am honored
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THE business model for the news industry is now in a fragile state, with the digital platforms preventing publishers from best positioning their operations … PUBLISHERS — Subverting online subscription and advertising revenue streams which is undermining the news industry's sustainability as a private
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SAN RAMON, Calif., May 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — KerrHill is thrilled to share the company's CEO's recent feature in Publishers Weekly. In addition to developing some of the top management tools and trainings in the field, George Phirippidis is an innovative author. His book, The 6 Functions of
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The mobile and video business continued to see rapid growth at OpenX in both volume and revenue in Q1 of 2018. As more premium publishers and app developers refine their partnerships to fewer, more trusted mobile exchanges that have invested in industry leading quality initiatives, OpenX's mobile
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It was very fitting: I had just finished a square of 86% cacao dark chocolate when I got the email about yet another study suggesting health benefits of dark chocolate. In addition, I had just returned from vacation in Guatemala, the land of the Maya. It was the Maya who discovered the usefulness of the
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Over the past year, News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti called on Facebook to offer trusted publishers a carrier fee, much like those used by cable providers. These calls came as Facebook was mired in another round of fake-news controversy — and as the tech company
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But even if the Facebook founder thinks the news is important, that apparently doesn't mean he has any plans to actually pay for it, the way media insiders like BuzzFeed Publisher Jonah Peretti and the Tow Center's Emily Bell believe that he should. “I'm not sure that makes sense,” Zuckerberg said
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News Corp Australia's submission to the ACCC forensically dissects how the platforms' market power has made them “unavoidable trading partners” for publishers who are, in effect, trapped and hurt by their anti-competitive practices. In Australia, Google has 95 per cent of the search engine market and
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Advice for NIH-funded authors, Publons and taking credit for peer review activities are the topics for the May 2018 Round-Up. NIH-funded Authors: My Bibliography can help your NIH Biosketch. Is your list of publications and research outputs in your My Bibliography current? Do you include the URL link
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