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[…]
Earlier this year we published the results of months of research into the world of habit-formation for news products. Through interviews with leading publishers such as The Telegraph, The New York Times, Schibsted, The Wall Street Journal, and more, as well as our learnings from the latest Digital Growth Summit, we were able to synthesize[…]
Coming off recent industry discussions on the importance of product thinking, this week we are exploring three key ways publishers can reduce news product friction in their digital strategies. Registration walls increase conversion More and more publishers are adopting registration walls to help solve some of the new problems of today, including legal obligations, de-anonymizing[…]
This past week more than 200 news executives gathered in New York to discuss the state of subscriptions in our industry and to gather inspiration from their peers at INMA’s third Subscription Summit. Twipe was there for both the Study Tour and Summit, so we have taken the time to distill our learnings into 6[…]
In the past decade or so, the number of platforms that news needs to be on has exploded. Gone are the days of focusing only on print and digital. Now publishers need to manage a variety of different news products all at once, which means product thinking has become ever more important. Anyone in a[…]
The newspaper industry has long mastered the art of habit forming; after all, they managed to associate the print newspaper with the morning coffee through an elaborate set of promotional tools and efficient distribution strategies. For digital, the importance of a daily habit is just as true, with recent research from Northwestern University in the[…]