Three years ago, James Rosewell called Google’s Privacy Sandbox “a plan worthy of a Bond villain”. James, who co-founded the Movement for an Open Web (MOW), has since maintained that Google’s proposals are not fit for purpose and warns that a dark future awaits if we don’t protect the open web from overzealous corporate control. James Rosewell, Co-Founder of Movement for an Open Web Media in democratic societies across the globe is in the midst of an existential crisis. On one level, the most powerful brands are either making deals or suing technology companies to ensure they are compensated f ..read more

The Audiencers’ Madeleine White outlines how media organisations can transform their paywall from a rigid, inflexible barrier to one that is far more cognisant of user needs and their potential to subscribe. The end result? More conversions and increased revenue. Making your paywall dynamic means being audience-first, adapting the conversion experience to a user’s profile or context thanks to audience segmentation. It’s the most effective strategy to optimise conversion rates. And being dynamic isn’t just reserved for “freemium” or “softer” models… Even if you’d like to block all content for a ..read more

Sometimes it’s important to look beyond the headlines, seek the wider picture and consider the nuances. And this is especially true in the world of media finance, writes Ashley Norris, who spoke to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) guru Reed Phillips, CEO of Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips investment bank, at the recent Mx3 media event in Barcelona. Many stories have been written about the downfall of millennial darlings Vice Media and BuzzFeed, detailing how these media companies took huge chunks of investment money, created monster valuations, and then saw their businesses crash as revenues fell w ..read more

Last month, Mx3 Barcelona took place in the Catalan capital bringing together some of media’s most innovative creators and strategists. In this round up, Will Bailey, Head of Partnerships at 67 Bricks, outlines his five key takeaways from the summit. P.S. The full event report is now available for download here. We’ve been reflecting on all the great nuggets of insight we gathered during last month’s Mx3 conference in Barcelona. For us, there were five key themes which we found compelling enough to take back to our wider team and clients.  1. Create new products that meet your audiences w ..read more

Mediaspace.global returns with its next virtual Leadership Club Global Roundtable. The theme? The most popular search query made by industry professionals: Google Privacy Sandbox. Mediaspace, the award-winning platform and leadership community, is hosting its Q1 global virtual roundtable of 2024 on the 17th of April from 3pm (UK timezone). It is dedicated to the strategic and pragmatic impacts of Google Privacy Sandbox. FULL DETAILS Whilst Google started to phase out 3rd party cookies from Chrome by 1% in January 2024, it’s hard to predict if the Privacy Sandbox initiative will get the gr ..read more

Join us in the beautiful seaside town of Cascais, Portugal on June 4th-6th for the 46th FIPP World Media Congress. Relax and network with peers, sharing insights and knowledge amidst a spectacular setting, as well as participating in a unique conference with a world class agenda and speaker roster. Full details here. As we edge ever closer to the full reveal of our speaker program for the FIPP World Media Congress 2024, our focus today falls on one of our keynote speakers, Dr Jon Roberts. Jon is the Chief Innovation Officer for Dotdash Meredith and was previously President of the media giant ..read more

We’d like to extend a personal invitation to join us for an unforgettable experience at the FIPP World Media Congress 2024, taking place from June 4-6 in the picturesque seaside town of Cascais, adjacent to Lisbon. View the full agenda here. In just under ten week’s time, nearly 500 senior media industry executives from across the world will converge on the pretty Portuguese seaside town of Cascais, situated just a short taxi ride from Lisbon to participate at one of the world’s leading media conferences. Now celebrating it’s 99th year, the 46th FIPP World Media Congress 2024 serves as the ann ..read more

The recent Mx3 Barcelona event, held on March 13th and 14th, 2024, marked a significant gathering of many of global media’s most influential innovators, creators and pioneers. We are now proud to release our full event report which is free to download. Taking place over two days last month, Mx3 Barcelona was one of the most rewarding summits we have ever organised – no slide presentations, just off-the-record interactive conversations between A-list creators, publishers, and technologists at the forefront of specialist media. Each stage session was conducted under Chatham House Rules and this ..read more

Journalist Simon Owens’s Media Industry Newsletter is compulsory reading for anyone trying to navigate the ever-changing, challenging world of digital media. He tells Piet van Niekerk what he thinks will be some of the recurring themes at June’s FIPP World Media Congress in Cascais, Portugal, where he will be a speaker. Simon Owens doesn’t suffer fools or mince his words. Not when he accuses Facebook in his newsletter of “bribing publishers” with its (now disappearing) news tab, spells out (back in January 2022) why Jeff Zucker, then president of CNN Worldwide, “seriously overestimated the ge ..read more

A new report paints a bleak picture of the state of the media in Africa’s most populous nation. The Media’s Agenda-setting Role: Insights from the Coverage of Nigeria’s 2023 Elections stresses the media’s role in educating and informing voters and presenting diverse voices amid a flood of vitriol and false information on social media. Adri Kotze spoke to Adenike Aloba, who spearheaded the research, about the “heartbreaking findings” and what newsrooms worldwide can learn from Nigeria. Audiences need explanations. Data can help restore trust in media and transparency. If we package existing in ..read more