Apple has changed its in-app subscription policy, removing the 30% commission that is charges publishers who sell subscriptions within iPhone and iPad apps.
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Last month I finished on Osama Bin Laden’s lingerie model niece. Although Bin Laden’s demise was big news at the start of the month, it was dwarfed by column inches devoted to celebrity super injunctions and privacy legislation.
The daily national newspaper market enjoyed a small 0.1% PoP rise in May, with three titles posting increases during the month.
Sky has announced that all 10 million Sky TV customers will have the opportunity to watch Sky channels and programmes on PCs, laptops, mobiles and tablets at no extra charge. Called Sky Go, it will provide flexible access to Sky content across multiple devices including the iPhone, iPad, PC and Mac from 6th July 2011.
Scott Thompson, digital research manager at Starcom MediaVest Group, says that while the tech world gets caught up with the smartphone platforms and the competition between them, a more interesting and important area to look at is the users, and the way the platforms are designed to configure different kinds of behaviours…
Richard Nicholls, The Future Foundation, says “Boredom” could soon seem a rather quaint affliction peculiar to the inefficient consumer of yesteryear…
Nigel Walley, managing director of Decipher, considers the effect next generation set-top boxes could have on the TV landscape: “What TiVo and SkyAnytime+ show is that it might be easier if the platforms just ignored the broadcasters and used their PVRs to build their own versions of iPlayer and the other catch-up services.”
Ahead of our Media Playground 2011 event tomorrow, Newsline and online research company Toluna have teamed up to launch a series of questions to find out what people really think about the digital world (including social media, connected TV, m-commerce and privacy). Using the Toluna QuickSurvey’s system (which officially launched today!), here are a few of the highlights…
Raymond Snoddy tells a story that rather eloquently illustrates just how large an issue privacy is becoming and how things can go seriously awry when the marketing community gets it even inadvertently wrong…
Andrew Bradford, VP client consulting, media, Nielsen, says we need to ensure that the industry has the knowledge to ask the right questions. Plenty is also being done by trade bodies and organisations to promote learning, but it seems clear that there is still a long way to go…
