This week we welcomed nearly 200 publishers from 27 different countries for the latest webinar in our Future of News series. Mathias Douchet, Director of Product at The Telegraph, was the special guest speaker. He shared the three key pillars of their strategy: Journalism: the key thing The Telegraph has been doing for over 160[…]
Advertising revenues have been on the decline for newspapers for a long time now. With the switch from print to digital, publishers saw their advertising dollars replaced by digital dimes. Today, nearly 70% of all digital advertising revenue goes to just Google, Facebook, and Amazon. That’s not even including the wrench coronavirus has thrown into[…]
Twipe embarked on a journey of collaboration this summer with HackYourFuture, the coding school for refugees in Belgium. We are very honoured and proud that we have had the opportunity to help HackYourFuture and four students in their personal development. Danny Lein, CEO at Twipe The first class for HackYourFuture Belgium was launched in May 2018 with the aim of enabling[…]
As the world returns from holiday and goes back to work, we are also welcoming our Future of News community ‘back to school’. As we all prepare for 2021, and accelerate work on end of year projects, we have gathered 5 articles that will help better inform your news product strategy going forward. #1 De-anonymising readers[…]
This week departing New York Times CEO Mark Thompson made headlines when he said he believes there will not be a print newspaper within the next 20 years. It’s not the first time that this type of comment has been made, and it won’t be the last time. One of my @WSJ bosses told me[…]
Back when the World Wide Web was first being created, Tim Berners-Lee and his team were responsible for listing the error codes for when things would go wrong, such as error code 404 when a page was not found. Back then it seemed logical that it would be common to require payment for digital content,[…]
The recent Reuters Digital News Report found that the use of push notifications for news has been growing in recent years. With more and more alerts on readers’ lockscreens, how are publishers working to stand out? To answer this, we dug into examples from MittMedia, The Times, BBC, The Dallas Morning News, Ouest-France, DuMont and more.[…]
This week we celebrated Belgium’s national day. As a Belgian company, we are proud of our long history of innovation in the news industry. In 1605, the very first newspaper was printed in Antwerp, which is not too far from our office in Leuven. This spirit of news innovation has carried over into the digital[…]