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
The delay, say experts, will allow publishers to firm up on the technologies they are going to be using as the system moves further towards first-party data and consumer privacy protocols
India’s leading news publishers got fewer unique visitors in January 2024 compared to January 2023, as per Comscore. Publishers insist web traffic is seasonal and LS polls will turn the tide
The English daily Free Press Journal or FPJ placed a front-page ad on January 1, hinting at an alleged age-old industry practice of including numbers of unsold copies to inflate circulation figures
From adapting to a world without third-party cookies to the rise of Connected TV (CTV), these trends have not just influenced our present – they pave the way for the future
Prior to this, he was Executive Director at Oxford University Press
These sites generate a whopping 21 percent of ad impressions and take away 15 percent ($13 billion) of digital ad spend of the Open Web Programmatic, which is a $88 billion global market
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
Dainik Bhaskar and Amar Ujala have updated terms and conditions banning all tech firms who intend to use their content
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
While this space allows advertisers to create personalized and targeted ads, publishers are able to offer consumers a seamless shopping experience
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
With people shifting to AI-chatbots for their queries, referral traffic from Search towards news websites is declining, say industry players
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
The bureau's Council of Management had halted the audit due to Covid-19
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
Guest Column: Deloitte India Consulting Partner Ashvin Vellody & Director Monika Bagchi emphasized that the ban on the use of third-party cookies is nothing less than a structural transformation
With it, publishers can continue to maintain their editorial integrity and brand voice, while enabling readers to find more relevant content, resulting in increased readership and engagement
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 new solution enables digital publishers to effectively monetize in the post-cookie era, without sacrificing consumer privacy, by positively targeting relevant ads
The programme aims at providing technical and product training to meet the needs of news publishers and help them grow their digital businesses
The Centre has submitted that although the right to freedom of speech and expression is critical for India, citizens cannot be treated as passive consumers
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
exchange4media in association with Taboola recently organised ‘The Publishers Round Table’ on the theme ‘Decoding newer monetization strategies for digital publishers'
The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy has issued notice to the Union of India
Speakers on this roundtable will discuss what it takes publishers to improve their audience engagement.
The MIB has sent reminders to the publishers who have not submitted the information yet
The DPCGC will have an OCCP Council composed of publishers of OCC as members and an independent Grievance Redressal Board [GRB], consisting of a chairperson and six members
Around 60 publishers and their associations have informed the ministry that they have already initiated the process of the formation of self-regulatory bodies under the rule
As part of licencing agreements with publishers, Google is also paying participating news organizations to give readers access to a limited amount of paywalled content
MGID is dedicated to providing publishers with the best solutions to monetize their content and audiences
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
With this alliance, GroupM will gain programmatic advantages and PubMatic’s publisher partners will gain access to unique, quality ad spend from GroupM’s portfolio of global advertisers
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shared that one of the company's goals is to reach at least 315 million mDAU in the fourth quarter of 2023
While IFF and DigiPub have raised several concerns about the intermediary rules, the BIF has welcomed the guidelines
Facebook had earlier announced that it will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content in response to the proposed law