Google has launched a new type of search engine designed specifically around helping people find data.
Simply called “Dataset Search,” the tool provides easier access to millions of datasets across thousands of data repositories on the web.
— Read on www.searchenginejournal.com/google-introduces-new-search-engine-for-finding-datasets/268337/
Digital Publishing: After Years of Tinkering with Paywalls, Publishers are Creating the Right Funnel to Find Digital Subscribers – Editor & Publisher
“Just 10 percent of your readers could make or break your company’s digital future.
That’s the opinion of Ken Doctor, the media analyst who has been breaking down the “Newsonomics” of our industry for years. Doctor is referring to the fact that a small number of digital news readers—between 2 and 12 percent—drive 50 percent of the traffic at every major media website. Consider that your news organization’s core audience, the readers that come back to your company’s journalism day after day.
Which brings me to paywalls.”
The 'N' in LEAN: Non-Disruptive Ad Experience
"Disruption of the content consumption by advertising has been a major complaint from users as well as a motivation to use ad blocking tools. This guidance lists current ad experiences and identifies disruptive ad experiences that MUST NOT be
used as well as provides guidance on acceptable experiences. …"
“A Nielsen Scarborough study measured U.S. newspaper readership and found that more than 169 million adults read a newspaper in print, on a Web site or on a mobile app in a month in 2016.
In total, newspapers reach 69% of the U.S. population each month.”
Read the article here: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/291865/newspapers-record-strong-readership-print-or-digi.html
