Apple is stretching its audio operations beyond podcasts and music to include spoken word versions of stories on Apple News+. Over the past several months, several publishers said that Apple has been asking them participating in its year-old premium program for permission to produce audio versions of the stories on the platform. Read more below. - Despite the fact that Apple is handling production costs, several publishers have expressed their skepticism towards the success of these audio articles.
- Digiday has analyzed the public statements and quarterly earnings reports and calls from a number of the world’s largest global media companies to assess how they’re faring through this crisis.
- For Digiday+ members, switching to audience-based buying would risk devaluing TV networks' programming and choking off the funnel for brand advertisers.
- Also for members, the latest Digiday+ Talk with The Washington Post's Jarrod Dicker discussed how the impending death of the cookie is an opportunity for the industry to reset.
- Playstation video games are becoming media channels for Adidas as it looks for new ways to market without live sports.
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| Audio Anywhere | | | | The spoken word versions of stories already available in Apple News+ would be produced by Apple, rather than the publishers of the original stories. | | |
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howdy! | Coronavirus Fallout | | | | An analysis of earnings calls and financial statements shows the effect the coronavirus crisis is having on viewership, advertising, production and subscriptions. | | |
| Sponsored by White Ops | | | | Sophisticated bots are driving marketers to seek new ways to ensure that their audience is authentically human. | | |
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howdy! | Business of TV | | | | Switching to audience-based buying would risk devaluing TV networks’ programming and choking off the funnel for brand advertisers. | | |
| Sponsored by Backstage | | | | As a prolonged period of self-quarantine continues, marketers are using remote casting and production to field talent and create content. | | |
howdy! | DIGIDAY+ MEMBER EXCLUSIVE | | | | In the latest edition of the Digiday+ Talks, WaPo’s Jarrod Dicker discusses the offensive and defensive strategies that publishers can take on right now in order to prepare for the death of the third-party cookie. | | |
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| Sponsored by Tatari | | | | DTC brands, which have primarily built their businesses on performance advertising and digital, are claiming unprecedented value in TV inventory as ad prices plummet in a time of pandemic. | | |
howdy! | | | | | Boudreau spoke to Digiday about why the non-profit organization sees its advertising as necessary now, why it isn’t touting commercial benefits and how the company has pivoted its editorial staff to work on more digital news versus longer lead magazine stories. | | |
howdy! | Video Anywhere | | | | Playstation video games are becoming media channels for Adidas as it looks for new ways to market without live sports. | | |
| | | | | The news publishing industry may be getting squeezed by the pandemic economy, but for Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg, it set itself up for failure long ago, by leaning too heavily on advertiser revenue. "When the United States became a national marketplace in the mid to late 19th century, that marketplace was so big, so vast and laden with opportunity that it just made much more economic sense to premise your revenues and growth as a publisher on advertising," Rothenberg said on the Digiday Podcast. |
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