Posts made in June, 2017

on Jun 30, 2017

By John Glenday The Wall Street Journal is to beat a tactical retreat from print outside the US as publisher News Corp chooses to focus instead on digital subscriptions throughout Europe and Asia. According to the Financial Times, this will make physical copies of the business and finance-oriented paper virtually extinct in Europe with copies absent from retailers, airport lounges and hotels. Dedicated consumers who wish to grab hold of a copy may still be able to do so via a mail order subscription service however – although Journal bosses are still debating whether to allow even this minimal presence. In Asia, Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Jun 30, 2017

By John Glenday Publisher Trinity Mirror has recorded a 9% drop in like-for-like group revenue over the first half of the year, amid what the board concedes is a ‘challenging’ trading environment. Over the 26-week period to 2 July 2017 Trinity Mirror saw publishing revenue fall by 10% while print declined by an even more precipitous 12%, offset only partially by a 5% rise in digital returns. Advertising remains a weak spot for the business, however, with print advertising declining by 21% on the back of a further 6% fall in circulation – although it should be noted that this advertising drop was Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Jun 30, 2017

By Charlotte McEleny The IAB Singapore has launched ‘Rolling Heavies’, a new video series that puts the most senior digital leaders in APAC, members of the IAB Singapore Board, on a bike to ask them about their career and experiences. The third in the monthly series features Michel De Rijk, APAC president of Group M’s Mplatform, who talks to Miranda Dimopoulos, CEO of IAB Singapore and ambassador to Southeast Asia about what he learnt about leadership skills while scaling Xaxis quickly in Asia, how to behave on Linkedin and life before media. A key piece of advice in the interview came around how Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Jun 30, 2017

By John Glenday Google has hired a vice-president of diversity in the form of Intel’s ex-chief diversity and inclusion officer, Danielle Brown, to help it move the needle in closing the company’s gender and race gap. The appointment comes as Google‘s latest diversity report revealed that its workforce is still overwhelmingly white and male, despite a marginal improvement in the representation of Latino staff. Google, like much of Silicon Valley, has faced criticism for being predominantly white, Asian and male – at odds with the demography of the US as a whole. This situation remains true in 2016 despite efforts to Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Jun 30, 2017

By Taruka Srivastav Twitter and Centre for Social Research (CSR) have launched a public education initiative called #Tweesurfing to improve online behaviour and interaction. The Drum earlier spoke with Twitter India’s new country director Taranjeet Singh who said that India has taken the lead as the fastest growing daily audience for Twitter, and therefore it is essential for Twitter to enlighten their users about cyber etiquette. Twitter’s head of policy in India, Mahima Kaul wrote in a blog post: “One of our most important goals at Twitter is to ensure our service remains safe for all users. At our core, we Read full story › Source: The Drum...