One Super Bowl. Millions of social media interactions. How do you sort, find and follow? It’s here: One page. Take a look at Crowdynews 2015 Super Bowl social stream. All you could imagine, and need, in one spot. Automated, aggregated, complete. Easy and fast to launch. Not a resource drain. Proven way to make money […]
At the intersection of news and social media
The wonderful, wild, wide-open nature of social media leaves the door wide open for discourse of any kind – rude, nasty, sharing, loving, informative, political, connective, entertaining, persuasive…story-telling of any kind. All of it has an audience, large, small, gigantic. Newspapers, how are you gathering that audience, the news that can be filtered from the […]
Seeking the ideal, elusive digital revenue metric
Every media company, every paper, every publisher, every ad director has a “favorite” method of tracking digital sales success, beyond the ever-present budget numbers. Part of the reason for a “favorite” checking mechanism has to do with the ever-present question: “How did I really decide on that budget number, and am I confident of the […]
Facebook’s Newswire: Where do publishers fit?
No doubt publishers and editors reading recent reports of Facebook’s Newswire strategy on Poynter and other media sites, had one of two thoughts: 1. Wow, wonder what that will be? 2. Wow, wonder what that means for me? Too early to answer either one intelligently. As with many things, time will tell, though this one […]
What to do?
No silver bullet. There. It’s out; it’s said. Last week’s blog – an enticing title of Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse – dissected what drags us down in the push to build a digital model. As a commenter pointed out correctly, the four “horsemen” and riders listed – Mr. Indecisiveness, Turf Fighter, Head In […]
The Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse
Sometimes non-industry friends ask for a quick snapshot of the media industry’s trials and tribulations, and where is at all goes from here. Not really a query intended as deep stuff, but conversation; you know, light talk. My standard answer has evolved into the title of this blog, because it’s pretty safe that any phrase with […]