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The FT just launched a rapid-fire news service that consists of 100-250 word stories. The idea is to offer punchy news and analysis — and ensure readers don’t have to stray from the FT for their business news.
The FT launched a new version of its iPad offering, a move that reinforced the publication’s contrarian web-only mobile strategy, and an FT executive predicts that the problem of collecting mobile payments outside of app stores will soon be solved.
As domestic newspaper circulation shrinks, The New York Times and Financial Times are launching editions for Latin America in Brazil. But why is one in print and the other digital-only?
Rob Grimshaw runs The Financial Times’ digital operations. He talked to me about HTML5, premium digital content and digital overtaking print in this short video on the fringes of last week’s paidContent 2012 conference.
FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw made no secret of his distaste for Apple’s in-app subscription terms at padContent 2012. iOS apps don’t work for publishers, he told the audience, and the Financial Times’ decision to leave the iTunes store was a success.
The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010.
Pearson’s digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin’s e-book…
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA)…
Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets.
(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT)
Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a pa…
The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based…
With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android a…
Consumption off the desktop is creating new audiences for The Financial Times before and after the working day.
The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our…
The Financial Times is closing Tilt, its experimental pure-play online news service for emerging-markets finance professionals, 10 months af…
What does content mean for online retailers, and how can publishers successfully work commerce into their websites? Those were the questions…
The Financial Times may yet go on making hundreds of thousands of dollars through its existing iOS apps, despite having removed them from iT…
Two months after the deadline for compliance hit, it’s now clear The Financial Times and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can’t come to a compromise over…
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t…
Financial Times chief executive John Ridding tells paidContent that data and mobile will fuel digital publishing in to a 2.0 phase. But he m…
iPad and mobile are becoming of increasing importance to The Financial Times, accounting for 22 percent of web traffic and 15 percent of new…
With a month to go until publishers must either fall in with Apple’s new in-app purchasing terms or quit iOS in June, The Financial Times is…
Financial Times online MD Rob Grimshaw, who debated on our paidContent 2011 conference panel in New York on Thursday, caught up with me back…
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is expl…
We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry,…
Pearson’s digital revenue grew 24 percent to £1.6 ($2.57) billion through 2010, including…
— FT paid digital subs:Â +50 percent to 20…
The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” – many are confused exactly how th…
The Financial Times is on-record as saying its iPad app generated a tenth of its (85,892) new cross-platform digital subscriptions last year…
The Financial Times is launching yet another digital-only subscription spin-off that’s not branded “FT”.
Brazil Confidential is a “premium…
Emap CEO David Gilbertson describes his mantra for business-to-business publishers, in the Financial Times…
“The way I’d describe [the sh…
After months of operating in stealth, social news site Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE…
The Financial Times released its own audience figures…
“206,892 paying digital subscribers … up 71% year on year.”
Daily print circulat…
If you spun off a dozen staff from your news publication to re-think the future of niche business news online, what would it look like? In T…
Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetis…
Whether digital news should be free or chargeable; it’s now like sport – you’re apparently either for or against; red vs blue. That’s the un…
Here’s our take on some of the latest news at the intersection of technology and entertainment:
» OK Go: Brace yourself, YouTube. On…
— HTC’s ad campaign pays off: Another story about how HTC has created a brand out of a no-name white-label smartphone maker. The more inter…
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co…
The Sun has released an iPhone and Android app for its Bizarre-branded entertainment coverage. Costing £1.19 for 30 days and, thereafter, “…
The Financial Times’ new iPad app has generated more than £1 ($1.59) million in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according…
The Financial Times is creating a separate, spin-off website covering emerging global markets.
We first reported about FT Tilt in July, whe…
The Financial Times has made what it’s calling a “major investment” in a new online video studio at its Southwark Bridge HQ.
FT.com had alr…
The Financial Times is increasingly launching specialist spin-off sites targeted at niche audiences of financial professionals.
The latest…
The FT had already clicked “undo” on one Pearson (NYSE: PSO) exec’s recent assertion the paper will scale down its print distribution in the…
Financial Times Group’s half-year profit more than doubled from £14 million to £30 million, even though profit grew only nine percent.
Pa…
Something’s brewing at fttilt.com. Over the weekend, Pearson (NYSE: PSO) folk tweeted the URL to invite applications for what will be a new…
Yesterday, an executive from Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO) told us the news publisher was preparing to start “sunsetting” its p…
For years, even many of us in the online realm had countered digital prophesies of “the death of print” with cautious reservation.
But now…
We got a first look at the Financial Times’ forthcoming iPad app back in April. Now the paper’s released a video demonstrating the app
— AskJeeves: The search engine has added Google’s northern and central European marketing analyst Francine Rump as its European operations…
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And n…
Q1 revenues are up seven percent on last year to £1.08 billion ($1.65 billion) at Marjorie Scardino’s Pearson (NYSE: PSO), in line with the…
— FT video: The paper has redesigned its video section, now powered by Brightcove, offering targeted video ads, and even working on iPads.…
— ESPN: A blow for the sportscaster’s European ambitions – Lynne Frank, who, as EMEA MD, oversaw the acquisitions of Soccernet, Cricinfo an…
When we first showed a video of Penguin Books’ iPad concepts last month, observers got pretty excited about the possibilities. Now, we are t…
We got a sneak peak at the Financial Times’ forthcoming iPad app during a digital briefing by parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO). It looks, well, a…
Now this is what I call targeted advertising. The Wall Street Journal is so keen on its new iPad app, it’s advertising it to online readers…
The Financial Times’ metered online paywall system is considered one of the more successful models, but a new partnership with location-base…
Last year, amid the greatest recession in the history of the financial system, the Financial Times turned a profit. How it did so in the wak…
The Financial Times is sometimes more intelligent in its analysis than it is quick in its breaking news. But it’s not passing up on the latt…
Suddenly, everything is new again. Underlining uncertainty and lack of consensus regarding mobile-device monetisation strategy, two newspape…
Now the Financial Times is getting really bullish about its web access model. In another tweak, it’s now ensuring that no free articles are…
A year ago, the FT launched “a next generation search tool for business professionals”. Powered by Endeca, it was called Newssift and aimed…
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business– so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob G…
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at…
With NYTimes.com now set to follow FT.com with a metered paid web model, both companies’ bosses gave presentations and sat together on a pan…
The Financial Times first started talking about a web “pay-per-view” model back in August. Last month, it confirmed a “day pass” will be add…
Even before the economy turned bad, the FT was working hard to amp up its subscription funding and reduce its reliance on advertising.
But…
— Kevin Anderson: Guardian.co.uk’s blogs editor, who has been working on pre-election online planning lately and previous worked on the BBC…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) fell under the spotlight in November, when the debate over news sites’ value to search engines swirled up in to rumour o…
The Financial Times took another step today in bringing more of its digital content directly under its control. The newspaper said it will b…
More refining on paywalls, from one of the first to introduce them. The Financial Times is gearing up to launch a “day pass” to access its c…
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says its Financial Times Group “ended the year ahead of our expectations” in a preliminary statement ahead of its 2009 e…
After more than a year of discussions and months of delays, the New York Times finally may be on the verge of announcing — not of implement…
By Peter Preston: The crucial question is this: is the FT different or essentially the same?
When its increasingly cheery CEO, John Ridding…
Cover price rises, a growing online subscriber base and corporate clients will help the Financial Times’s content revenues overtake print ad…
The Financial Times website sought to show off its long-time paid content credentials as Murdoch made his volte face this summer – effective…
By Chris Tryhorn: The Financial Times has made its complete archive available online to subscribers interested in finding out how the paper…
FT Group’s paid content strategy is steering the business back into revenue growth, as it announces a three percent sales lift for the first…
If anyone can charge for content, perhaps it’s How To Spend It, the monthly magazine for high earners that comes inside the FT Weekend editi…
No newspaper is more keen on readers paying for content than the Financial Times. But one of the fastest-growing and most innovative parts o…
By Katie Allen: The Financial Times Lex commentary team is hoping to raise its profile and revenues thanks to a deal with business news broa…
— FT Lexicon: FT.com has launched a glossary of financial terms, Lexicon.ft.com. Like Forbes Digital’s Investopedia, Lexicon offers 10,000…
The Financial Times plans to “substantially ramp up coverage of Wall Street” via its Alphaville blog, according to Gorkana. Alphaville’s edi…
FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Pr…
FT.com executives are considering introducing a pay-as-you-read model loosely based on Apple’s iTunes to increase its digital revenues furth…
Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executi…
A rash of new iPhone apps…
— Dopplr: The business travel social net has taken its Social Atlas to the iPhone, price free, putting it up…
Does the FT’s editor know something we don’t? The obvious answer is “of course he does – lots”; but Lionel Barber is also more optimistic th…
As expected, since it told us in January, The Financial Times has unveiled its iPhone app on Apple’s mobile store. Whilst the app is free, i…
— Telegraph.co.uk mobile: The paper is aping Independent.co.uk’s move last week by having Bluestar Mobile overhaul its mobile website. m.te…
Bloomberg has hired yet another executive with big Internet company experience to help it become less dependent on terminal revenue. Ien Che…
First, free was all the rage among newspapers; now, the pendulum has swung back, and at least some newspaper companies are convinced that th…
The Financial Times is set to launch a new website and e-newsletter called China Confidential next week. The new publication is in keeping w…
As parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO) and the Financial Times continue to try to save costs after some buyouts, layoffs and salary freezes, the pink…
Back in 2005, financial-services firm Legg Mason paid $19.7 million to newsletter publisher financial Lowry
— CBSI : Future US exec Simon Whitcombe has joined CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) as VP, games in the the company’s sports, games and music d…
The Pink One will pass out some pink slips, though more in form of buyouts than actual layoffs, reports Reuters, citing an internal memo sen…
In times of financial crisis, one of the few things to benefit is the financial media. And that may go some way to explain why Financial Tim…
Financial Times CEO John Ridding hopes to build on the gains of the downturn, as its print newsstand sales rose 30 percent in U.S. in Septem…
The Wall Street Journal, now part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is going to stop carrying the long running Breakingviews daily opinion columns i…
Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,35…
Factiva customers who want continued total access to the FT.com will have to pay for a second, separate subscription, reports our sister sit…
Can smaller directory companies providing maps and local information compete with the sector
From our new site paidContent:UK: Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to r…
What a difference a takeover makes. Analysts revised their verdict on Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE:PSO) today, with the company like…
A reminder that life goes on at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) while the buyout by News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) wends its way to a close … DJ announced to…
Last week we mentioned a research note by Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth, who did a detailed number-crunching and analysis of the scena…
Putting into context some fears of editorial cuts at Pearson, if it buys Dow Jones, Bloomberg says it will hire 240 journalists this year to…
Lots of commentary and speculation following the “news” this weekend that Pearson is mulling a joint bid on Dow Jones, along with GE. Among…
Some interesting explanations on last week’s news of a single-copy price hike at the FT (and WSJ) from FT CEO John Ridding in today’s Indepe…
On Friday we reported on Pearson looking at bidding for Dow Jones, and that it may tie-up with GE, which has also been looking at the possib…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Pearson PLC, publisher of FT (the other most expensive daily business newspaper), is trying to pul…
Indicating confidence readers will still pay for accurate business information despite the availability of the internet, Wall Street Journal…
The season of website and service upgrades in UK:
— Sky says it will do a massive overhaul of its digital offer. The new portal, possibly l…
Lots of speculation in the UK market earlier today about Financial Times and its parent Pearson finally being put up for sale, though the or…
The Financial Times’ transition to a multimedia operation was a painful but necessary process, said editor Lionel Barber. The move cost 50 j…
I mentioned FT’s earnings this morning…in a follow up story, Guardian reports that parent company Pearson’s CEO Marjorie Scardino admitted…
The Financial Times has made a $9.34 million profit in the first half of the year, reversing a $3.74 million loss in the first half last yea…
(reg. req.) The Financial Times plans to cut 10% (about 50) of its 500-strong editorial staff as it merges its online and newsprint operatio…
FT recently announced it was changing the distribution pattern for third-party distribution by adding 12 hours to what is now a current 12 h…
Which is probably a smart strategy in the longer term: syndication revenues through services like Factiva and LexisNexis can only grow so mu…
High time this happened: Financial Times owner Pearson has done a management shakeup at the newspaper. Its finance director Rona Fairhead wi…
James Montgomery moves from U.S. news editor to editor of FT.com, succeeding Simon Targett, who had only been on the job since last summer.…
FT.com is taking cues from rival WSJ.com and opening up its subscription site for a week…along with it, the site will also launch new regu…
Pearson has announced a 27% increase in ad revenues for its online operation FT.com as part of strong preliminary 2005 financial results for…
There are suitors aplenty for Financial Times, if the parent company bites: Terry Smith, head of UK moneybroking giant Collins Stewart Tulle…
Outgoing Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers, who resigned last week in a cloud of controversy and diffferences with Pearson CEO Marjorie S…
Not much detail about FT.com in parent Pearson’s first half 2005 earnings report released today. Advertising revenues at FT.com, which has n…
The Financial Times has changed its digital line-up, appointing Simon Targett as editor of FT.com and Chrystia Freeland to the new role of e…
Netimperative: FT.com is to launch free desktop news alerts, allowing subscribers to receive updates from up to 13 news categories. The laun…
The Financial Times has hired a search-marketing agency to promote both the newspaper and FT.com through natural and paid-for search listing…
Pearson’s outgoing Chairman Dennis Stevenson has laid any doubts to rest: the company isn’t considering selling its flagship Financial Times…
FT.com is launching its first online ad campaign (in UK) in two years as it drives the business towards the 100,000 subscriber mark.
More th…
Financial Times is wrapping up some good deals for mobile distribution: it has teamed up with Motorola on mobile content…The new service e…
The pink paper’s bleeding, but FT.com site turned profitable this year…It started charging subscribers in 2002, and now has nearly 80,000…
Like rival WSJ.com, it is going with Revenue Science…Eight segments have been identified for advertisers: Business Education, Institutiona…
Zach Leonard, the former head of FT.com and recently FT’s EMEA managing director, has left the company and joined UK’s Wi-Fi wholesaler The…
FT.com’s paying subscribers increased from 57,000 in June 2003 to 76,000 in June 2004…that’s all the info Pearson released about Ft.com in…
Pearson’s decision to start charging for its FT.com website in 2002 continued to pay off, with subscriber levels up by around 50% in the six…
The Financial Times is going on an overdrive on mobile content: it has picked Oracle to build a new delivery platform. The publisher will ai…
America Online’s Q4 revenues declined 7%. Operating income before depreciation and amortization improved to $301 million from a loss of $33.…
FT.com’s content will now be pushed onto Blackberrys…the site’s using Outercurve’s InfoEdge delivery service.
FT.com, following up on its recent deal with Vodafone, has now tied up with Nokia to bring FT content to users of Nokia’s new 6600 device.…
The Financial Times is to offer both free and paid-for content to mobile phone users with Vodafone…The standard deal will give WAP users a…
As I reported here first (sorta), FT.com is looking to introduce premium newsletters, including regular market updates from an expanded Lex…
FT.com will this week launch a news alerts service to help drive new subscriptions, backed by a nationwide marketing campaign.
The tailored…
This goes slightly counter to the trend, but FT.com has expanded its relationship with Yahoo Finance…it will provide more stories, mainly…
The Financial Times launched a new edition in Asia, in print and online, today. “FT.com will also feature Asia Watch — a new online analysi…
It had to spill online, one way or the other. WSJ.com has started advertising its Media/Marketing vertical on industry sites like E&P and IW…
Revenues at FT.com were “level” on last year despite a threefold increase in subscribers, who pay to access in-depth content on the financia…
Financial Times Online is exploring to launch high-priced specialty newsletters, priced up to 1,000 to 15,000 pounds a year, “depending on t…
FT.com has signed up 53,000 subscribers in the first year it started charging, while the total number of users has risen to 3.5 million per…
MSNBC.com has added the Financial Times to its roster of content distribution partners, in an arrangement designed to expand its news report…
FT.com Makes First Profit: As the parent paper made a loss during the second half of the last year, the website broke into profit for the fi…
Case Study: FT.com Tests Selling Subscriptions: ContentBiz does a case study on FT.com’s attempts to sell subscriptions, following its earli…
Financial Times’ Troubles Galore, but Online Unit Breaks Even: “FT.com has been our great leap forward,” [FT editor Andrew] Gowers insists.…
How FT.com Kept Ad Sales Strong in 2002: ContentBiz does a case study on how FT.com ad sales kept up during 2002. “In the past, advertising…
Up, Down and Up Once Again: The past five years in the new media industry can be neatly summed up by three key words – boom, bust, boredom.…
FT.com To Break Even This Year: Financial Times’ FT.com will break even in the fourth quarter, as expected, and Internet losses at the FT Gr…
Wine and Dine with FT.com: FT.com has launched a somewhat unique promotion scheme for its subscription service. It is offering a gift pack o…
FT.com to Provide Small Enterprise Subscription Service Through BTOpenworld: “The FT Pro service for BT Openworld customers–referred to as…
Hybrid Subscription Schemes Will Evolve: An interesting story about the FT.com subscription scheme, where the author says that the FT has st…
FT.com, not traditionally known for its sports coverage, has tied up with Sportinglife.com. The sports site, which was set up by the Press A…
Will “Free News” Become Extinct?: A story about European newspapers/online publishers charging for content. Usual suspects such as FT.com an…
SCMP.com, the Internet edition of South China Morning Post, and FT.com, Financial Times’ online operation, have signed an agreement to cross…
FT.com To Break Even in Q4; Plans Asian Edition(via IWantMedia.com): FT.com will break even by the end of the year and an Asian edition for…
FT.com Gains 17,000 Subscribers Since May: FT.com has signed up 17,000 subscribers to its subscription services since it launched paid-for c…
FT.com Uses Yahoo To Promote Subscriptions: FT.com, the online version of The Financial Times, which recently unveiled its online subscripti…
