Print Papers Top Media Replaced By Mobiles
Based on May 2014 polling by IDG Global Solutions, among smartphone and tablet users worldwide whose devices had replaced other media, print newspapers saw the most abandonment, with 50% of tablet owners switching over to mobile news, and 41% of s...
Rebooting Newsroom Strategy For Mobile
For print editors scrambling to keep up with the industry’s perfect storm of technological and market change, the transition to mobile is yet another challenge. In the third installment of the World Editors Forum’s Trends in Newsrooms ...
Digital Devices Drive New TV Viewing Habits
In Connected Life, a study of more than 55,000 internet users worldwide, TNS found that almost half of people (48%) who watch TV in the evening simultaneously engage in other digital activities, such as using social media, checking their emails or...
Cosmopolitan.com Relaunches; Mobile First
Hearst Magazines Digital Media today unveiled a new publishing platform with the introduction of a redesigned Cosmopolitan.com. “We’ve moved quickly to activate our ‘months to moments’ strategy, developing an infr...
Study Focuses On Smartphone Vs. Tablet
Nearly 9 in 10 large tablet owners also use smartphones according to the latest mobile media survey from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Only 4 in 10 smartphone owners said they also used large tablets. This difference, writes Roger F...
Users Don’t Wait On Contract To Buy Phone
Over half of smartphone and tablet owners are toting devices purchased within the past year, based on March 2014 survey results from B2X Care Solutions and Motorola. According to the study, 57% of respondents who owned a smartphone had purchased it wit...
Forecast: This Is Year Mobile Ads Explode
Mobile advertising is set to take off in a major way over the coming months, and by year’s end it will be the No. 3 form of advertising, surpassing print, radio and out of home. That’s pretty impressive for a format that did not even exist ...
On-Demand Music Streaming Up 42% In 2014
Nielsen’s U.S. music report on the first half of 2014 shows digital music consumption in the U.S. rapidly shifting from downloads to streaming, reports Josh Constine, On-demand streaming was up 42% over the first half of 2013, racking up 70 ...