"This guide helps media managers identify and choose the most relevant business models and practices that fit with their missions and operating conditions. It provides a common language around core concepts of media business functions and provides links to further resources. It offers practical, str
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aightforward guidance on growing audiences and diversifying revenue sources. The guide is written through the lens of news media and is written by media managers experienced in many different contexts. It includes topical overviews, case studies, interviews, guest essays, and practical hands-on tools." (Page 6)
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"[...] we have brought together relevant case studies to illustrate how content production and business relations can be reconfigured to generate fresh revenue sources, and to demonstrate which tools may be helpful along the way. These cases include special thematic projects, creative agency models,
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and native-only formats in digital and multimedia form that revisit the boundary negotiation between editorial and business departments. The Native Advertising Playbook casts new light on the complex, overlapping and increasingly coupled relations between consumers and clients that require significant alignment and coordination to succeed." (Executive summary)
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"This report looks at ten factors that have altered the media marketplace and that pose challenges to national and local news producers and their sources of revenue. They include ways in which governments interfere in media markets; changes in the structure of news distribution and audience behavior
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; and the way these changes have transformed how advertising media is bought, sold, and distributed. It then examines the key engagement metrics taken from a sampling of media development partner organizations to offer thoughts on how well these news producers are prepared to compete for audiences and revenue. Finally, it offers thoughts about the implications of these issues for media development organizations." (Introduction, page 2)
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"The accelerating digitalisation of the media landscape has released enormous forces of change in the Nordic advertising markets. The overall impression from the results of this study is that the sweeping changes digitalisation is bringing about are not just undermining the business model on which t
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he majority of commercially financed media companies in the Nordic countries have based their journalistic operations, they are also making it more difficult for the same companies to find a sustainable business model in a digital environment. The battle for advertising revenue is now an unfair fight. Media companies at the national and local level are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with the advertising solutions that global digital actors such as Google and Facebook are bringing to the market. The latter are not just more sophisticated than the domestic alternatives, they are also significantly cheaper. The results of this study indicate unequivocally that the differences in competitiveness between Nordic and non-Nordic advertising platforms will be exacerbated as digital advertising investments grow." (Executive summary)
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