Top Free News Apps To Watch In 2014
PBS MediaShift runs down some of the top free news apps available in 2014. The apps include AP Mobile, Nextdoor, Vyclone, BuzzFeed, Taptu and Google Play Newsstand.
App Downloads Nearly Doubled On Christmas
According to Flurry, downloads of apps tracked by the service were up 91% on Christmas Day compared with the average day during the first three weeks of December. And while this spike is large, it's smaller than those that occurred in 2011 and 2012...
AT&T To Sell Toll-Free Wireless Data Service
Websites that pay for the service will be toll-free for AT&T's wireless customers, meaning the traffic won't count against a surfer's monthly allotment of data.
Mobile Offers Local Media A Digital Do-Over
Alan Mutter: "For newspapers and local broadcasters seeking to recapture some of the audience, revenues and relevance that they lost in the rather inelegant way they stumbled into Internet publishing in the 1990s, the shift to mobile computing repr...
The 7 Megatrends Of Media In 2014
The intersection of technology and marketing is in a constant state of flux, changing at the hands of both short- and long-term trends. James Gross, co-founder of Percolate, a content publishing platform for brands, lays out some trends to watch in 20...
Across Industries, Mobile Ad Spend Rises
The pharmaceutical industry has done the most to increase mobile ad spending as of Q3 2013, according to data from Millennial Media based on campaigns run on its mobile network. But growth across industries was well over 100% as mobile ad spending ...
ESPN’s Second Screen Focus Pays Dividends
ESPN fans still watch most non-TV video content on their computers, but the mix is certainly beginning so shift and the network’s commitment to TV-anywhere and second screen is continuing to pay dividends: In November, fans watched 345.3...
A New ‘Local’ Industry In The Making
The industry continued to outgrow its legacy media foundation as new technology’s forced innovators and incumbents alike to think critically about the services they provide and the means through which they make money. Call it local media, mark...
10 Local Digital Media Trends For 2014
NetNewsCheck looks into the coming year at 10 trends for local digital media we see developing around technology, disruption and revenue.
10 Local Digital Media Trends For 2014
NetNewsCheck looks into the coming year at 10 trends for local digital media we see developing around technology, disruption and revenue.