NetNewsCheck Category Feed: Mobile

Nausicaa Renner parses the complexities of push notifications and how news organizations use and misuse them. She concludes that "the technology of mobile notifications is outpacing users’ comfort with and ability to use them. Mobile notification...

The two Republicans on the FCC — Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly — say they plan to overturn the commission's net neutrality rules after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

That's according to Ooyala's Global Video Index, and it's up 233% since third quarter 2013. Janko Roettgers notes that the same report finds that tablet viewing has been essentially flat for the last four quarters. 

"Publishers are slowly gaining an understanding for effective digital ads," writes Michael MaLoon. "It took a while for advertisers to break out of the banner ad formula used on desktops to find out what works on mobile."

"Publishers are slowly gaining an understanding for effective digital ads," writes Michael MaLoon. "It took a while for advertisers to break out of the banner ad formula used on desktops to find out what works on mobile."

More Americans than ever this year learned about Election Day results from their phones, including via mobile push notifications news organizations deployed in brand-new ways. According to data collected by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism as par...