Category «Publishing»

Half of News Agencies’ Stories Get Picked Up Within the First 5 Hours of Publication

How quickly do publishers pick up your stories and exactly how long is the tail of content published by news agencies? At EzyInsights we track a great number of stories published by news agencies across the globe. We track even more stories by news media and other publishers that quote and replicate news agencies’ stories.  …

Open News Dashboard for Everyone

As a software company we can’t help make hand-sanitisers, face-masks or ventilators. What we can do is offer you a global view on what’s trending in the corona-related news. That’s why we put together an open dashboard with multiple filters – to track news globally, in Brazil, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany (use arrows on …

Tools in the Newsroom

Working with newsrooms across Europe gives us insights into how they work in practice, when cultural hurdles are in play. Usage of tools is both essential and a constant pain point in any modern newsroom. One challenge can be to understand where different tools fit along the editorial workflow. Which tools tend to cover the …

We are living through the big growth of Instagram: Interview with Mediaset’s Social Media Manager

There’s no end in sight for publishers’ interest in Instagram, now that it is bringing more and more social traffic. Having talked with VG from Norway and their brand-focused strategy, we turned to Spain’s largest television network – Mediaset. Social Media Manager Sonia Got Leibar shared her insights into how they approach Instagram.     …

After the storm: The recovery for broadcasters is real

Finally some good news regarding Facebook’s ever changing algorithm for news publishers – specifically broadcasters. At EzyInsights, we analysed several sets of engagement data from the last 18 months, looking at both Post Engagement and Web Share engagement. During our last look across European publishers, we saw that some public broadcasters benefited the most. We …

Analysing Diario Público’s winning strategies

A recent post by the International Journalists’ Network highlighted Spanish publisher Diario Público and the success that their strategic changes have brought. “How Spain’s Público redefined its strategy and grew its audience by 40 percent” We are always excited to read about the success of our customers, and this article is littered with fantastic insights …

Intelligence – Powerful historical data for you

EzyInsights is proud to announce the launch of Intelligence – putting powerful historical data at your fingertips. Over the last 3 years, we’ve worked with the top publishers around the world. We’ve tracked hundreds of millions of stories. We’ve seen newsrooms and editorial teams transformed by our real-time data. Now, the perfect complementary tool has …

Crowdtangle vs EzyInsights

vs. Before Crowdtangle was acquired by Facebook in 2016, its presence was largely focused on the US market. Since then, having made the tool available to all media publishers, more European media houses have begun to investigate and use the tool.  EzyInsights appears on paper quite similar to Crowdtangle, both monitor Facebook engagement on media content. It …

More Facebook Engagement Means More Web Traffic for Publishers

Similar patterns Snowflakes are a classic example of symmetry. Correlation a fascinating pattern of similarity, and this post will show you some most important and intriguing correlations in social media publishing: how social media engagement reflects on media publishers’ traffic that eventually turns into revenue? Everybody knows correlation does not imply causation, and many of …