Whatever happened to the exciting new websites with mega valuations which seemed to be the future of news? Following the pandemic sites like Quartz, Vice and Buzzfeed and have all fallen back to Earth in a big way. Press Gazette reported last week that following...
Doom, doom, doom Doomscrolling is a social trend sweeping devices around the world. The term was coined in March 2020, as the pandemic began to rage around the world, to describe the unrelenting need to consume an endless procession of negative online news. When...
Content marketing has been a growing source of advertising revenue for news publishers in recent years and according to the Content Marketing Association is worth £5bn a year in the UK alone. But it has been particularly hard-hit by the pandemic. With in-flights...
The Cog Blog (a great resource and friends of ours) wrote a couple of weeks ago about some lessons learned over the years, illustrated with real-life examples. They asked the great Cog Blog reading population to contribute to the follow-up. So we did. “One that...
This week’s post comes from our friends at The Cog Blog. That great cartoon-strip philosopher Charlie Brown once said: “I have been repeating the same mistakes in life for so long now I may as well call them traditions.” Had Charlie Brown ever grown up he may very...
This week, I wanted to give a shout out to News UK. As reported in The Drum today, this week they opened a photography and illustration agency to support unrepresented creative talent, with the aim of tackling nepotism in the media. Bridge Studios, News UK’s content...
