Interviews and news

DIS contributor Chris Price looks at how, in a bid to distinguish their content from the rest, many large mainstream news publishers are launching specialist websites.

 

 

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Incredible as it might seem the Apple Watch has been a product for just over year. After months of speculation and rumour the company CEO Tim Cook finally confirmed the existence of the watch in September 2014. It then took Apple seven months to get...

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Sam Olstein, Global Director of Innovation at GE, is the latest speaker to be confirmed for the Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) in Berlin, Germany, taking place from 20-22 March 2016.

 

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If you want to find out how news-driven media brands are innovating in 2015 there really is no better place to start than Lucy Küng’s excellent book Innovators in Digital News.

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24 speakers from companies and brands such Axel Springer, Schibsted, Time Inc., Paris Match, The Economist, Fusion, Refinery29, the NYT's T-Brand Studio and Reuters Institute of Journalism have so far been confirmed for DIS 2016.

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Keeping a very close eye on the media and the advertising industry is central to the role of Alina Hückelkamp. The Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer of Razorfish Germany is responsible for the strategic business of all customers of the agency as...

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In the United States podcasts are “re-emerging” as a business model for publishers and unlike a few years ago, advertisers are now willing to bet on audio downloads, writes Ulrike Langer for the Digital Innovators’ Summit blog.

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Anyone in the UK who has downloaded the new iOS 9.1 update to their iPhone or iPad may have noticed one new feature - and no it’s not the middle finger emoji that everyone’s talking about. Chris Price reports on the roll-out of Apple News in the UK...

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The Digital Innovators' Summit is a place to hear about the future of media and technology from the innovators who are driving change. Here are 7 leaders in media on why you should attend the event.

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Chris Price talks to Future’s content and marketing director Nial Ferguson about licensing Gawker Media’s tech website, Gizmodo, and others in the UK and how this helps the company grow.

 

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One of the UK’s most respected media groups “have changed the approach or direction of specific projects as a direct result of insight or thinking” from sessions delivered at the Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin, Germany.

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The latest speaker to be confirmed for DIS 2016 is Redg Snodgrass, CEO of ReadWrite and Wearable World in the US.

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Pierre-François Marteau, SVP of Strategy, Governance and Growth at Schibsted Classified Media (SCM), is the latest speaker who will join us at the Digital Innovators' Summit (DIS) in Berlin, Germany from 20-22 March 2016.

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Lewis D'Vorkin, Forbes Media Chief Product Officer talks about how a trio of innovations have made the brand a huge online success.

A couple of decades ago if media analysts been asked to predict which of the major US print publications would be at...

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A journalist who was a dean and chief digital officer at Columbia University, Sree Sreenivasan is now Chief Digital Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and best known for transforming one of the most famous institutions in the art...

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Africa could be the next frontier for ambitious international publishers, argues Julian Artopé of Swiss media giant Ringier.

Julian will be a speaker at the Digital Innovators’ Summit (innovators-summit.com) in Berlin, Germany, taking place from...

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Will the rise of ad blocker software lead to a new era in publisher/reader relations? Ex-Googler and Sourcepoint founder Ben Barokas thinks it might and his company has an intriguing new proposition for media companies.

The key issue for many media...

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Today, we can reveal the names of the first ten speakers confirmed for FIPP and VDZ’s Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS), taking place in Berlin, Germany from 20-22 March 2016. They will join 114 delegates who have already registered for DIS 2016 with...

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Live streaming app Periscope has been one of the year’s most celebrated technology platform launches having been downloaded over 10 million times since its launch in March, writes Sadie Hale for the DIS.

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Register before 31 August for the DIS 2016 in Berlin to save over €1,000

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