by Lucinda Southern | Jul 23, 2019 | Media, UK
In an effort to focus its resources with fewer, more specific shows, News UK cut the number of podcasts it produces in half, to 22 last year. One year in, the result: Double the collective downloads and triple the ad revenue. “People want high-quality, distinctive...
by Jessica Davies | Jul 22, 2019 | Media, UK
Sharing data between businesses has become a legal minefield since the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation last May. The U.K. data protection regulator, The Information Commissioner’s Office, has sought to shed light on a remaining gray area: the...
by Lucinda Southern | Jul 22, 2019 | Media, UK
Axel Springer’s line of defense against the duopoly, news aggregator app Upday, is now profitable and gearing up to scale further and drive more revenue. The app, which comes pre-installed on Samsung devices, now has 25 million monthly active users, according to the...
by Jessica Davies | Jul 19, 2019 | Media, UK
After a relatively sleepy start to 2019 in terms of enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation, regulators have begun to dig in over the last few months. In the U.K., that’s involved the Information Commissioner’s Office revealing its intent to issue...
by Lucinda Southern | Jul 19, 2019 | Media, UK
Media company Global is launching three additional Snapchat Shows in the next month, having grown both revenue and viewers from its first three shows on the platform and experienced recent revenue upticks in the last few months. Global debuted its first three shows on...
by Lucinda Southern | Jul 18, 2019 | Media, UK
There’s a thinking in Europe, home to more of a cooperative spirit and looser antitrust laws than the U.S., that publishers must band together to combat the power of Facebook and Google. But publisher alliances have proved difficult to execute. Look no further than...
