By Sajith Pai in Miscellany No Comments Tags: David Belle, Erwan Le Corre, Fitness, Georges Heberte, Ido Portal, Method Naturelle, MovNat, Parkour, Sebastian Foucan
This is my first non-media article on this blog. This one is on fitness, a big interest area of mine. The article shares my thoughts on the evolution in fitness thinking, and the growth of what I call the ‘movement movement’.
I chose to publish it in medium. Here is the link to the article.
Let me know what you think of it.…
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: David Carr, Fitness, Google, Ken Auletta, Metered Model, Paywall, Price Discrimination, Social Media, The Guardian
This post consists of two parts. The first is a follow up to my previous blog post on the Guardian. And the second deals with an idea as to how news sites can monetize traffic that comes for free through social / search sites.
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Last week Ken Auletta of the New Yorker and David Carr of the NYT got together on PBS News Hour to discuss the Guardian. This …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Advertising Revenue, Circulation Revenue, Fitness, Metered Model, Paywalls, Sunday Newspapers, The Guardian, The Observer
In my previous blog post on freesheets, I had laid out the latest revenue and profit (loss) figures for UK newspapers. Readers who reviewed the same in detail may have noted that the Guardian was one of the loss-making papers (Revenue of £196m and losses of £31m for FY13). Now the Guardian is likely the 2nd most read newspaper worldwide (behind the Daily Mail), having recently overtaken the …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Advertising Revenues, Classifieds, E-Commerce, Europe, Fitness, Online / Digital
Long radio silence there. My apologies for those who checked out the site and didn’t find it updated. I am blaming a holiday, a relentlessly crowded work schedule and attention to a couple of exciting personal projects for the lack of posts (No, I wasn’t feeling lazy, really! ;-).
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Frequent readers may recall that I started my blogging journey citing my fascination for the digital transformation underway in the …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Advertising Revenues, Aftonbladet, DB Corp, Fitness, Hindustan Times Media, Jagran Prakashan, Mobile, Preprints, Strategy, The New York Times, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
Last week, INMA, the global newspaper (or newsmedia as they prefer) trade arm released its 2013 Outlook. The Outlook too, as all INMA’s publications do, has an intensely digital focus. Quite natural, when the print product is in free fall in the West, and more specifically in USA, where INMA is based.
But for those of us in India, where the print industry is still growing (now in …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Apps, Circa, Fitness, FT, News, News Corp, Online / Digital, Summarizing, Summly, The New York Times, Venture Capital, Washington Post, Wavii
Sometime in mid 2011, Nick D’Aloisio became the youngest person ever to raise venture capital (!), when his news summarizing startup Trimit attracted the attention of Horizons Ventures, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s investment vehicle.
Rebranded as Summly, and having attracted $1.5m through more celebrity investors such as Stephen Fry, Yoko Ono, Ashton Kucher, not to mention tech stars such as Brian Chesky of Airbnb, Marc Pincus of …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Advertising Revenues, Coupons, Fitness, FMCG Advertising, Preprints, Retail, USA Newspapers
ln a previous blog post, I had written on the importance of the Sunday edition and how it now accounted for a disproportionate 40-50% of the weekly revenues of the average newspaper (For McClatchy, the figure is 36%). This had, I postulated, been built largely on the back of the triple-whammy[1] impact of the FSIs (Free Standing Inserts) or Preprints – essentially inserts / supplements full of …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Fitness, Metered Model, Online / Digital, Paywall, Some Free Some Paid, The New York Times, USA
It is time to announce a winner, ladies and gentlemen! As we head into the last quarter of 2012, we now seem to have a runaway winner in the battle of the paywall models – the metered model.
A recent Newspapers Association of America study of 156 newspapers revealed that 87% of the newspapers profiled had adopted the metered model. And since the study broke, there have been further announcements. …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: CareerBuilder, Classifieds, Conferences, DB Corp, Fitness, Hindustan Media Ventures, India Today Group, INMA, Jagran Prakashan, Outlook Group, The Times of India
The Indian Newspaper market, with its near 8% CAGR[1]over the past 6 years, has been well-insulated from the doom and gloom that has pervaded the Western newspaper industry. Thanks to the increasing number of neo-literates and a rapidly growing middle-class, there is considerable demand for the print product (110mn+ copies a day, a 21% global share and the largest in the world) even as the western …
By Sajith Pai in News Media No Comments Tags: Advertising Revenues, Fitness, Online, Online / Digital, Paywalls, The Hindu, The New York Times, The Times of India, Washington Post
Today, most newspapers in USA have either instituted a paywall (typically some variant of the metered model) or are considering one actively. Hey, even Buffett the legendary investor recommends paywalls stating “…you shouldn’t be giving away a product you’re trying to sell. That’s key to the future of the newspaper”.
However, one of Buffett’s investee companies, The Washington Post Co has thus far been content to stay away from any …