When Facebook says ‘jump’, media publishers ask “How high?” With the introduction of Facebook’s new reactions, every digital media publisher must rethink how it presents its articles on the platform to maximise engagement.
EzyInsights is proud to announce something we’ve been working on for a long time behind the scenes. SoMe Index is a website which contains all publisher engagement data from social media, ordered and filtered to give an impartial and realistic view of how news & content publishers are performing. Our first territory for SoMe Index …
When I talk to different online publishers, one of the questions I often ask is what percentage of their web traffic comes from social. And if you know me you know that when I say social I mean Facebook, which trounces every other platform in terms of referrals to mainstream and general news, Facebook dominates. So …
Measuring data in digital publishing is well established. Everyone does it, it’s expected, but there’s a huge problem, not everyone is measuring the same thing. Traffic and referrals being the closest linked to actual revenue, tend to be measured in an accurate way across publishers (although even then…). But this information is exclusive to each publisher. So how can …
If you’re in the news publishing industry you’ve probably already heard of both Facebook’s Instant Articles, which is currently being trialled by a handful of big publishers worldwide, and Google’s own version, named Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. Both schemes aim to tackle the problem of sluggish loading of news and content pages on mobile. This has become …
Our recently published infographic explains how publishers are losing money because they don’t know how valuable each minute is when it comes to posting news. This blog posts goes deeper into looking at the facts and figures behind the infographic, and why putting a dollar value to time is really really difficult. Breaking news, viral stories and newsworthy events proliferate across …
One of the top questions publishers struggle to answer satisfactorily is “Does more engagement mean more clickthroughs?” We have seen that the answer to this is yes, although it isn’t always reflected in the data clearly enough. In this post I’ll explain how social media engagement eventually does lead to greater exposure and inevitably greater clickthrough numbers.
The importance of the Facebook Newsfeed algorithm for publishers cannot be underestimated. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen a fundamental shift in people’s behaviour when hunting down news. In the past, getting news digitally was at least a semi-active affair. People would navigate to news websites manually, using bookmarks, typing the address in manually …
Unilad and The Lad Bible are the dominant viral presences online right now. Now they are monetising your attention, sometimes without you even realising.
Facebook finally rolled out the first wave of its Instant Articles system on mobile. In case you haven’t, I’ll explain briefly what it is and what it means.
Today Facebook announced it was going to make some tweaks that essentially likes and comments less significant in terms of deciding what to show users in their newsfeeds. This article by Mashable sums it up quite well, with a single glaring exception that shows how even industry commentators don’t really understand why they’re seeing the …
Whether you are a brand or publisher, you have a Facebook page and you’d like it to do better. That’s good, because I’m going to tell you three very easy things you can do immediately to help you get more reach, more engagement and more page fans. Post natively. If you’re doing this already – …
Firstly, let’s get something straight – you need fans. You need people to like your page if you want to reach them organically – without paying. But here’s a warning: even in the best case, this is going to be around 10% of your total fans.
EzyInsights arbetar, med vår törst för data som drivkraft, med många högt uppsatta publicister i Finland och Sverige och har därmed ett unikt fågelperspektiv över denna bransch. Här är en översikt över det gångna året och vad som kan hända under 2015. Öka reklamintäkterna på nätet Online CPM-intäkter minskar, men varför? En viktig orsak är …
Working with many of the top publishers across Finland and Sweden, EzyInsights has a unique birds-eye view of the online publishing industry which is fuelled by our thirst for data. Here is our overview of what has been happening over the last year and what will happen in 2015.
Facebook needs brands, but it needs them to pay. Users want to see good content. Facebook wants happy users and brands want reach. Find out how Facebook punishes reach for brands with the intention of making the platform better for everyone.