The publishers allege the Broadcasting Bill aims to enforce censorship by putting a compliance burden on the creators
Media reports say Google has been adding a provision in the partnerships that enables it to revoke the deal at the end of each year
Meta is considering banning news from social media in Australia over payment of licensing fees. A similar move in India could put small news media outlets at a disadvantage, say industry watchers
As advertisers tightened their purse strings, media players faced a muted growth on their digital platforms in Q1 FY24. Veterans from the industry share the cause & effect of the situation
Times of India, Hindustan Times, Dainik Bhaskar and The Hindu have safeguarded their websites from OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot, many others to follow suit this week
The Search Generative Experience is expected to cause a significant drop in traffic coming to news websites, thus creating a further dent to their ad revenue, share industry observers
Publishers have been reworking their strategies after changes in the Google algorithm affect web traffic and revenue
Drop in data & news consumption, decline in sales of mobile phones and flattening of internet growth cited as prime reasons
The roundtables are the precursor to the e4m-DNPA Future of Digital Media Summit & Awards to be held in January
The search giant has said this in response to a story by exchange4media on Thursday that talked about digital news publishers’ demand for a higher share in its ad revenue
The search platform is merely a “distributor” of news while they are the “producers” who spend money and resources in creating content, say digital news publishers
Publishers in India have long been urging Google to come up with an egalitarian revenue share model
DNPA is an organization of the digital arms of leading media companies of the country, representing both print & television entities
Digital media experts say Indian government should take a cue from authorities in Australia, and France besides the European Union that have mandated Google to compensate the publishers
In its complaint to the antitrust watchdog, the DNPA has alleged that Google, by way of abuse of its dominant position, is destroying the concept of ‘fair and well-researched journalism'
The plea, submitted by Digital News Publishers Association, accuses the search giant of abusing its dominant position in digital marketing
The new Terms of Service will be effective January 5, 2022
Google, VP-Product Management, News, Bender said in a blog post that the panels give news publishers more control of their presentation & branding, helping them be more visible to their readers
The GNI Startups Lab has been created in collaboration with the Google News Initiative (GNI), global innovation lab Echos, and DIGIPUB News India Foundation
The programme aims at providing technical and product training to meet the needs of news publishers and help them grow their digital businesses
In June, the MIB had said that 500+ digital news publishers and over the top (OTT) platforms have furnished requisite information sought by the ministry under Rule 18 of the IT Rules 2021
The Leaflet contributing editor Ashish Khetan is a co-petitioner
The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy has issued notice to the Union of India
The MIB has sent reminders to the publishers who have not submitted the information yet
Prakash Javadekar also said that the government has not endorsed any demand by the INS for the same
While welcoming the rules, the representatives pointed out that they should be treated differently from news publishers who only existed in the digital space
While IFF and DigiPub have raised several concerns about the intermediary rules, the BIF has welcomed the guidelines
The search engine giant has said it is not because Google exists but because news sites are facing competition from those who have allowed classified advertising to go online
More than 2,000 of the world’s leading publishers have chosen Taboola to implement personalized recommendations within their mobile news apps
The tech behemoth said on Thursday that it has signed agreements for news partnership programmes with 200 publishers in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, UK and Australia
Facebook also added that over 95 per cent of the traffic Facebook News delivers to publishers is in fact 'incremental to the traffic they already get from the news feed'
They also requested that the government call off collaborations and investments made by the Chinese in Indian media companies
Greater impact to be felt in immediate terms, majority ad buyers and sellers haven’t changed revenue forecasts for Q3 and Q4