Posts About ‘newspapers’

Who Gets The Most +1′s? Daily Mail and Telegraph, Times Not on G+

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It is a dangerous area: taking a look at how many likes, how many tweets or how many +1s a specific website gets and drawing conclusions out of these results. Because, what does it really say about the popularity of those sites?

Searchmetrics decided to take a look at UK newspaper websites and try to figure out which one of them has the most authority. Not just based on one metric, but on several.

Searchmetrics found that despite these having fewer Google+ followers than others the Daily Mail and the Telegraph web sites are more frequently shared. (more…)

Almost 1 in 2 Europeans Visit Newspaper Sites

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The Internet is supposed to be the ‘death’ of the newspapers. Who will buy one in a few years, once it gets printed it is after all, not news anymore.

Newspapers are looking to find different ways to get their business back on track and the Internet is the best place to do that. Comscore numbers show that newspapers are still popular, but then mostly online. Half of Europe’s internet population visits newspaper websites.

The numbers from Comscore show that people still trust newspapers as an’authority’. They might see news on social media first, but they still go to newspaper websites to read more about the specific topics. (more…)

Eric Schmidt: a newspaper will become highly personal

The never ending issue: how will newspapers evolve. And how will they make money? Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has a pretty straight forward view on it. He believes there IS a future for newspaper and he believes Google can help out. At the Guardian Activate Summit in London on July 1st Schmidt talked to Alan Rusbridger about this topic. And he was very clear: newspapers will have to change. And Google wants to become the company that offers the pieces of the puzzle.

Watch the entire interview below: