News Brands Eclipse Newspapers
Newspaper Industry Officially Accepts Dead Tree Press Finished
In January 2010 Guido gave a presentation at Microsoft’s HQ to the Online Journalism Association, the thesis was that newspapers as we know them will die and journalism would thrive. Guido’s pitch was that the old deadline based “news cycle” is being replaced by “news streams” and that newspapers as we know them will be replaced by “news brands”.
Today the industry trade body for the dead tree press, the Newspaper Marketing Association, accepted the thesis and announced it is renaming itself “Newsworks”, dropping dead entirely the word “newspaper”. CEO Rufus Olins says “We need to start thinking differently… It’s all about newsbrands, about delivering content through a range of platforms.” Guido thinks we can only measure the strength of news brands in terms of their mindshare. The broadsheets – Guardian, Times, Indy – all lose money and are more akin to vanity publishing than profit motivated businesses. It is about who they reach and how much they influence their consumers.
As the news industry and more importantly – from a financial perspective – the advertising industry comes to realise that online and print consumers are fungible, reality starts to hit home. In under a decade this blog has become as strong a news brand in our field in terms of readership and mindshare as the New Statesman, hell we’re part way through a reverse-takeover of The Spectator. The great thing for consumers is that because of low barriers to entry, we have an ever more competitive, pluralist, thriving free market in news. Without slaughtering trees…
I’d like to complain about all the trees. They get in the way of a good view.
Quite Guido but now you are in the fold be prepared to be regulated along with the rest of the flock
I give you a cast-iron guarantee that I will stop taxpayer money being used to subsidise the Guardian through job adverts.
Cyber Space link to the latest dead tree Guido
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/252406/Guido-Fawkes-Plots-rumours-and-conspiracy/
Any ONAn jokes yet?
It’s amazing that your brand of utter shite is so popular. Still, if you’re in the race to the bottom, why not take a few window lickers with you?
Yes! You tell them!
It might be shite to you, matey, but it’s a decent f.ucking career for Guido!
unlike the guardian guido is not reliant on public sector job adverts or a telly tax and you are not forced to read him.
I think political blogs should be taxed and regulated and all information they stream should first be censored by an office, set up by us MP’s in the House of Commons. Boaz.
And you don’t tend to get instant opinions in the dead tree press. And very few articles littered with F’s, C’s and euphemisms for the afofementioned!
No.
No. No. No.
The Guardian must remain as a uniquely funded (thank you, Auto-Trader reading minions) bastion of correct thought. I couldn’t give a damn if the circulation figures are risible – ordinaries need to be told what they must do, say and think.
The unique tax affairs of the Guardian Media Group must also be held above common analysis, because everything the paper says and does is so very very correct.
Now go and pay your television license to uniquely fund our broadcast wing. We really, really like our broadcast wing.
Agreed
We are thinking of moving into print now that the market is ripe for competition and growing.
Our vacancy adverts sniffing out the latest batch of shirt-lifting, self-righteous, coke-addled, oh-so-pc-luvvies make it straight into the Guardian – and ONLY the Guardian – every week.
Now that’s what I call ‘moving into print’. No nasty riff-raff with unacceptable opinions here thank you.
Just what we need a newspaper that you HAVE to buy.
Agreed! Added to which,who else would be available & prepared to pay for hypocritical Polly’s writings?
The Tuscany Herald?
Spot on cur.
Do the Scott trust have a bottomless pit?
The filthy anti-Semitic rag is still in business. Personally I have never bought a copy in my life and I had a wonderful cathartic moment abt. 3 years ago when I deleted them from my browser — and that was FREE. Try it – you feel really good afterwards.
the scott trust are in business supported by autotrader (which is a 50/50 joint venture with APAX private equity). Also the guardian has lots of interns working for it. As i have said before if google or facebook decided to increase it revenue by moving into the autotraders territory then it will quickly crumble. All facebook needs to do is offer low cost advertising to all car dealers then the market will quickly migrate to its platform.
You’re use of the term fungible seems to point to the fact that you think readers are commodities. Are you a politician?
Readers are commodities to advertisers. This is a business not a charity. OK we’re having fun but it would not be sustainable if it did not make a profit.
Thanks for the advertising 101 Greedo.
Glad you’re having fun but we have to read this shite.
‘Have to’?
Really?
Community Service order
So you’re not really in it for making GB better then. You are a traitor to Fawkes’s name, Wankstaines.
…make GB better… ( I hope you mean the country not the one eyed mishap mooning around the Highlands and who should be locked up with all his bankster friends forever))
Fungible? Who are you calling a mushroom!
I speak to dead trees through a medium
I’m a “large”, doncha know. Now’ I’ll just unzip……
I hear a trumpet being blown.
Jericho?
I like magazines better than newspapers as less ink comes off on your tongue
So everythings great then.
Dream on, Greedo.
I take it this wasn’t part of your contribution to the print based version of the Daily Star?
Grab it while you still can.
I don’t think the Daily Star or any other newspaper need’s telling that their time is almost up.
Speaking of advertising, why is it that every time I come on here I see adverts for butt plugs and leather posing pouches?
Spe@king of advertising, why is it that every time I come on here I see adverts for butt plugs and leather posing pouches?
I do worry about the trees. Withut a use such as paper, they may become obsolete and end up being replaced by something else.
They will indeed. No need for pit-props and newsprint, no need for Sitka Spruce and similar conifers. The only coniferous timber worth growing in the UK will be Scot’s Pine for joinery-grade redwood.
I feel an eco-tax scam coming on…
no we have to import trees into this country besides a lot of people outside of London used them in thier wood burners, so trees will still be needed.
What, like houses?
Why are you so keen that we should all read your insipid column in the red top rag, then?
He likes money
And we buy food, drink, cars etc.. with…..?
Credit cards
Touchy this morning, aren’t we? I like money and am not ashamed to admit it. Mind you, I don’t fancy the euro.
I swapped our gold for lot’s of lovely EUro’s. They must be worth a fortune by now.
Yes Gordon, now stop eating the flowers, come back indoors and drink your coffee!
We steal them.
What maybe true is that the red tops will outlive the broadsheets.
for example if you have the use of a PC at the office as well as at home then yes you will more likely move to news online as your primary source, but if you are say on a building site with no internet access (other than maybe your phone) then print may well be your primary news source for longer.
So maybe more print will move left wing to cater for its increasingly left wing audience.
Food for thought.
Not sure the ‘audience’ is getting more left wing. Quite a lot of it seems to be generally anti-EU, sceptical about climate ‘dangers’, frustrated by having to support a huge public sector cost, and deeply frustrated about all the petty employment, elf’n'safety and similar legislation they are burdened with.
Most people (that’s real people, not political wonkers) I know just want to be left alone to get on with life. They want government off their backs – they certainly don’t want more of it, national or EU. Don’t think that’s very ‘left-wing’.
“So maybe more print will move left wing to cater for its increasingly left wing audience.”
Jeesus fucking Christ. Have you seen the Guardian readership figures? The ‘left wing audience’ is tiny, and increasingly so.
Take away the cosy little GPMG offshore arrangement, where Auto Trader reading peons fund the self-righteous waffle of their betters, and the Guardian would die on its self-righteous arse.
The only reason the ‘left wing audience’ has influence so utterly out of balance with their numbers is due to massive de-facto subsidies from government, especially the BBC.
I never get an advert, pop-up or bugger all that I don’t want – SO THERE!
Is there a Firefox plugin so I can just see the adverts and no blog?
Ok, so that is the dead tree press consigned to the dustbin of history, can you now please concentrate on playing your part in destroying the Labour, Lib Dem & Conservative monolithic cabal of dinosaurs?
+2
With all that’s happening in the world the best Labour can come up with is ‘Don’t woriee Tony is cummin back’ Bit like letting the serpent back into the garden of Eden.
According to a leaked report a battle field ready Bliar can now be deployed within 45 minutes from Labour HQ
If they deploy him 100km up in the atmosphere the resulting EMP (Egocentric Manipulating Prick) blast will take out all the common sense left in the UK
If he is deployed will we be able to get the council to cut our hair?
There will be no longer any difference between you and the council as you will be assimilated.
Which country is the hand of God telling him we should invade next?
My money is on Greece, if the Germans don’t beat us to it. Oh shit they already have.
Scotland
Bliar is so yesterday
but I luurrvvve his stance on WindMills
Can you tell that to your husband? He is obsessed with imitating the lying scumbag Bliar.
Looking forward to watching all the anti war demo’s during the olympics. Bliar and his carnivorous, sponging wife don’t seem to understand the meaning of the word pariah, or the facy that he will never be forgiven for what he did to this country, Hunt.
BZZZT. Failed the basil fawlty rule.
A T O S E R (Tony of self en- richment) can only be deployed without full UN approval.
Readies Nokia Gatling gun
The Money Trees which Gordon and I planted in Downing Street also appear to be dead.
Broadly, Guido’s right – up to a point. However, I don’t think newspapers will disappe*r for a few years yet – or I hope not, at any rate. I rather enjoy the ritual of sitting down with a pot of coffee and the Telegraph on a Saturday morning, and it’s far easier to scan a sheet of newsprint for an intriguing headline than to scroll through pages of garbage on a screen. While there are still enough people like me, there will still be newspaper sales, even if one or two long-lived titles cease print publication.
History tends to suggest that new technologies don’t kill old ways, but often add another way of doing things. Radio didn’t kill newspapers, television didn’t kill radio, and t’internet hasn’t – so far – killed either.
Quite apart from which, you can’t lay sheets of blog on the workbench when you’ve got something oily to clean, or catch the drips with one when you’re painting a door, or start a bonfire with one.
I suspect that newspapers will be around for a good few years yet, just not in the volume they were before.
I suspect that standards of journalism will slip, though. Speed of publication will become even more of an imperative, and that will impact on time available for checking of sources, sub-editing and wordcraft. Quality – and accuracy – will suffer.
I hope newspapers stick around a while, I don’t know what I’ll line the cat’s litter tray with otherwise.
I think that the Saturday and Sunday print market will hold up, as people like the crosswords, travel/property/culture add-ons over a weekend, but the dailies will fade badly.
The print press has been finished for a long time (ask the advertising industry)
Leveson is digging the grave with the help of the usual crackpot brigade who’s heads are so far up their ar*es they are chewing their tonsils and drawing massive wages from me. Scum of the earth all.
‘every citizen has equal worth’ says Ed Milliband….except Labour wont practise what they preach in Northern Ireland where their refusal to contest elections means the citizen there cant vote for a UK Government party.
Waterstone’s are to sell Kindles and ebooks. Why would you want to go to a shop to buy an ebook? Guido’s right, the DTP is, well… dying.
People are using bookshops to browse, see what they like and then download it from Amazon for many pounds less. I’ll admit to doing it, but at least i didn’t have the crass bad manners of somebody I saw tapping away at his Kindle while standing in front of the shelves. The local literary festival – organised by the independent bookshop here – is still talking about the author who gave a talk which he read off a Kindle….
So, what’s the exit strategy going to be. An IPO or a reverse into The Scott Trust ?
If its the former, you can hand Neo the keys and fuck off to the Bahamas, kick back and relax.
If its the latter, think how much fun you’d have reading CIF with us lot posting there !
There in the twinkling of an eye!
Why not try us next time?
Smashing, Super, Great
well diane i would like to see how many actually get moved out. do you have some figures or are you talking out of your big black arse again
Is there really any need to use such inflamatory language? The reality is that there are too many immigrants and Landlords are trying to milk the system, councils or rather the council tax payer simply can not afford this anymore. Why can’t a Labour politician tell the truth for once?
And as sure as eggs are eggs as soon as councils stop funding thes exhorbitant rents then they will drop like a stone anyway.
On the Homebase adverts I see that people are now living in containers piled one on top of the other.
Is this as a result of government policy?
“Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt to be investigated over claims he failed to register donations from media firms”