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The Future of the Press: Online Strategies

Innovation Reports - 15/04/2008 The Future of the Press: Online Strategies

New services and business models

This report provides a figure-backed examination of the press’s migration to the Web, analyses the lessons learned so far and how the written press in Europe and the United States is adapting to the transition, and identifies the options available to print publications.


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Contents

 


1. Introduction: Current state of affairs



1.1. Report definition and scope
1.2. Economic situation of the press


 


2. A fragmented competition landscape


 


3. Press website business models: free or fee-based?



3.1. Advertising strategies
3.2. Maximising digital distribution
3.3. Beyond advertising: monetising readership through e-commerce
3.4. Mobile: advertising and e-commerce opportunities
3.5. Paywall strategy confined to premium content
3.6. Fine-tuning they strategy: streamlined pricing and packaging the service
3.7. More profitable than the print version


 


4. The press vs. new aggregators



4.1. Generating revenue from content resale?
4.2. Press aggregation strategies
4.3. Advertising partnerships with aggregators


 


5. Betting on social networks?



5.1. Local social networks and critical mass
5.2. City guides
5.3. Critical mass required to benefit from network effects


 


6. The classified ads market and internet pure players



6.1. A fiercely competitive environment
6.2. How the press is responding


 


7. Incorporating video



7.1. A popular online format…
7.2. …that meets a dual need
7.3. How are newspapers using video?


 


8. Synergies between online and print operations



8.1. Editorial synergies
8.2. Business synergies
8.3. Expanding distribution and readership
8.4. Brand synergies
8.5. Creating multimedia companies


 


9. The internet’s contribution to a newspaper’s strategy



9.1. Online advertising to increase a paper’s competitiveness
9.2. Key point: measuring global distrubtion


 


10. Conclusion: are the great press empires being fractured?

• Is the paywall model limited to providing premium business information?
• Can the press capture a portion of the, in part local, social network market?
• What role can the press play in the classified ads market when going head to head with internet pure players? Can newspapers lay claim to critical mass? Are alliances indispensable?
• How to combine B2C and B2B strategies? How to manage the growing use of video?
• What actual synergies are there between print and online editions: content, brand, promotion?
• Will there be a shift back from the free content to the paywall model?
• Do press operations need to be broken up?


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