Digital Magazine Stats That Will Matter This 2016

Reading experience has become increasingly more important over the years as more digital channels are competing for audience’s attention. The same editorial style can’t always be used with all the platforms available today. You can’t afford to simply produce content the way you used to. Because readers are bombarded with hundreds and even thousands of content and ad messages daily, you now have to think about how to create an immersive reader experience in order for your titles to really connect effectively.

Today we feature Mequoda’s 2014 Study on Digital Magazine Reader Habits to help you in knowing who are today’s digital magazine audience before delving into the process of immersion. It will cover digital magazine readers’ profile, behavior and preferences to help you map out your readers’ journey to an immersive reading experience.

Mequoda’s study holds a lot of digital magazine statistics that answer what this type of readers want and how publishers can meet their needs. Below are just key findings of the report, but there are other fascinating insights in the study that you can take advantage of. If you wish to know more than what we sifted here, a link is provided below to download the full report, for free.

Hopefully this will help get you off the ground and start reviewing and taking your digital strategy to a whole new level!Read more

4 Most Relevant Challenges In Today’s Digital Publishing

It is true that digital publishers today face many challenges created by changing markets, technology and consumer demands. Digital publishing has now an entirely new set of challenges than it once did. And, everyone bringing content to the market needs to make sure they’re ready to face the crucial points in the process.

Below, B2C’s Jeff Weisbein identifies four extremely relevant challenges faced by digital publishing industry today. We agree to the reality of these points as publishers battle each of these key challenges day in and day out. However, they are surely bound to be matched with solutions as understanding of the practice seeps deeper into the industry.

  1. Numbers, numbers, everywhere

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5 Factors Fueling The Shift In Value of Print vs Digital

It’s supposed to be the end of newspapers, according to naysayers who have been predicting their ultimate demise for years. But the facts prove the newspaper industry is growing and transforming rather than dying. Of course, there are always bumps in the road to innovation, but as it turns out, we’re actually in the midst of a promising and exciting time.

Top businessmen and investors such as Warren Buffet, John Henry and Jeff Bezos are demonstrating that newspapers are still lucrative investments. And despite gloomy predictions, our circulation revenue is actually rising.

We’re experimenting and transforming to match the pace of our innovative and digitally-driven world. Digital and bundled subscriptions accounted for a five percent uptick in circulation revenue in 2012 — the first national rise in circulation revenue since 2003.Read more

How To Crack Digital Publishing’s Profitability Code

Today’s audiences demand a seamless, coherent experience from publications and brands. They expect access to quality and engaging content across a variety of platforms – print, phone, tablet, and desktop; and in situations that don’t come with an internet connection. And with these number of choices, readers have become more knowledge-driven, economical in terms of subscriptions, and fickle in terms loyalty. At the same time, many are being plucked one by one by niche publications.

These are some of what publishers are facing with the rigid competition.Read more

How to Boost Your Flipbook’s Reader Engagement Through a Facebook Page

Facebook Pages are well designed for promoting digital publications. It provides an easier, more cost-effective platform for marketing your business, brands, or titles. Setting up a Facebook page for your digital flipbook is always a good audience development strategy.

Promoting on your Facebook page is the same as how you do it on your own Facebook profile– with posts and links, PR mentions, and stories inside your digital flipbooks. Initially, there is a possibility that these posts won’t have as much as an effect as posting status updates on your own profile. But keeping your page updated often pays off quite well eventually. To make sure you’re on the right track, below we feature Andrew Osegi’s tips for a better reader engagement using Facebook page.

In some cases, a Facebook page might be enough to ignite your flip digital publication into an overnight success story. However, chances are it will simply be a good introduction to a wide audience of people, and it will likely cause you to make your first subscription sale.

Tip 1: Consider a Paid Social Media Strategy

Here at Kuno, with regards to Facebook performance, we’ve been saying “Pay to Play” for a long time. Ever since it became common knowledge that Facebook would be prioritizing “high-quality” content over Business Page content, companies have been forced to pay the social platform for the reach they had once earned organically. This is a good thing: It decongestant the Facebook UX of page solicitation and forces marketers to fight harder for the little organic traction they may earn.Read more