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SnapChat's new Discover feature is the darling of the media's digerati this month, with CNN, ESPN and even hipster news Vice dropping in ephemeral news content as potential millennial bait. Matthew Ingram looks at what's really in it for publishers who...

SnapChat's new Discover feature is the darling of the media's digerati this month, with CNN, ESPN and even hipster news Vice dropping in ephemeral news content as potential millennial bait. Matthew Ingram looks at what's really in it for publishers who...

Podcasts are soaring in popularity, reaching 65 million unique listeners last month according to RawVoice, but there's a problem in tracking that growing audience. Apple is a huge driver of podcast activity, but it provides only limited data to podcast...

Don't panic! Ken Doctor explains that many of the new media habits, products and conflicts now guiding the industry into uncertain territory are actually quite old and familiar. E-newsletters? Just another version of a newspaper. Native ads and e-comme...

The BBC will launch "a refresh of the mobile experience" of its site in mid-February, Andrew Pipes, executive product manager of its homepage said on the news organization's blog Thursday. The BBC's sites will move to a single, responsive homepage, he ...

Reuters has launched a new mobile TV news service app, Reuters TV, offering curated, personalized video news content. Currently available exclusively for the iPhone, Reuters TV is targeting informed, aware adults in their 30s and 40s who don’t ha...

Instagram has updated its video feature so that videos posted there will now loop continuously and can no longer be paused. Why should publishers care? This essentially ensures that users will actually see video ads there, which is likely to play very ...