The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites, un article du New York Times Ads and their trackers take up a lot of the bandwidth and load time for many sites. This is a problem especially for mobile where data caps and speed are more often an issue than on desktops. The New York…
“For weeks the staff had known that layoffs might be coming, and when they did come, on Sept. 16, it was with the swiftness of a Soviet-era purge.” The Daily News Layoffs and Digital Shift May Signal the Tabloid Era’s End, par Alan Feuer du New York Times From its former height of nearly one…
“Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, you are expending one of the world’s most precious commodities: your attention.” Mobile advertising is killing itself, par Felix Salmon de Fusion At USA Today, there’s a modal that actually shows you a story you don’t want to read. You must manage to click away from it before being allowed…
“Before you start downloading, there is one very important thing to understand: By blocking ads, you are depriving content publishers (like us, hello!) of advertising income and insights into what readers want.” Please Don’t Block Our Ads. Here’s How to Block Ads in iOS 9, par Molly McHugh de Wired Maybe you were shopping for a…
“Much of the time, there’s no way to tell why information is filtered the way it is online. Why is one person’s status update on Facebook prioritized in your News Feed over another’s? Why does Google return a different order of search results for you than for the person sitting next to you, googling the…
Journal de Montréal Le passage à l’ère du numérique a eu des conséquences sérieuses pour les écrivains dont les revenus ont tant baissé qu’ils ne suffisent plus à faire vivre une majorité d’entre eux, selon une étude publiée mardi par l’Authors Guild, le syndicat américain des auteurs.
Un article du Columbia Journalism Review A new report from Adobe and one of several startups helping publishers fight ad blocking shows that 198 million people globally are now blocking ads, up 41 percent from 2014. In the US, ad blocking grew 48 percent from last year, to 45 million users. A recent Reuters Institute…
Kurt Wagner, Recode A new study from Pew Research Center found that social networks like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are all slowing down considerably when it comes to adding U.S. adult users. Pew reported the percentage of Internet-using adults for each network on Wednesday, and while Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest all increased (slightly) since 2014,…
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