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Report: 6 publishing technologies that will make a difference to your business — whatsnewinpublishing.com

Our own Peter Houston has been hard at work the past few months writing a new report for What's New in Publishing. '6 publishing technologies that will make a difference to your business' takes a look at content analytics, first-party data, paywalls, eCommerce, newsletters and podcasting.

Peter takes a look at the opportunities and challenges of each technology, examples of publishers leading the pack, and also rounds up some of the top vendors in each space.

It's free to download (although it's behind a registration wall...everything comes with a price...!) and will hopefully give you plenty to think over if you're looking to give your business a boost.

Is Twitter Blue a good enough product to earn your $3 a month? — www.niemanlab.org

After weeks of leaks, Twitter Blue, Twitter's premium subscription product, has launched in Australia and Canada. Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton evaluates the features and wonders whether they'll be enough to tempt heavy users to cough up a monthly fee.

Website duplication: Publishers need to wake up to growing 'threat to journalism' — www.pressgazette.co.uk

I've personally seen this happening with sites I work with where the content is duplicated onto a legitimate-looking site, and then competes for rankings and ad revenue. Usually, the 'Contact' and 'About' sections of these sites are totally fake, and they're pretty difficult to take down.

Is the newsstand the new art gallery? Magazines are swapping out celebrity covers for artworks by famous artists in a bid to stay relevant — news.artnet.com

A trend that may have started as a response to the limitations of lockdowns has taken on a life of its own. This is a lovely round-up of some of the most stunning magazine artwork from the past year.

This week's episode:

The Membership Economy author Robbie Kellman Baxter on developing compelling direct-to-consumer offers — voices.media

In this week’s episode we hear from Robbie Kellman Baxter, an author and consultant with over 20 years of experience in subscription pricing, digital community, and freemium. Robbie started working with membership and subscription models like Netflix while they were still sending out DVDs!

Eurosport’s Aude Baron discusses turning evergreen content into success in podcasting with Podinstall’s Sarah Toporoff — voices.media

For publishers with a well established content workflow, adding podcasts can seem like a daunting task. But, as this Conversations episode demonstrates, those publishers already have what is needed to create and distribute podcasts that add value to your audience and business alike.