So, despite online advertising revenues growing, newspapers claim that with a huge site with lots of adverts comes the awful burdon of generating sufficient advertising dollars across all of it. Those days of generating huge online editions that were not only copies of the paper-based product, but enhanced versions with loads of additonal topics/opinions/comments, may be a thing of the past.
Yes, you did read that right. Newspapers online are considering reducing the size and number of adverts they display (and some are already doing it) .
Note: The problem apparently comes when everyone wants to spend money buying up the homepage, but don't care about the rest of it. Therefore newspapers struggle to find the right online ad sizes that they can sell premium advertising revenue for.
To quote media economist Robert Picard,
"newspapers keep offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of content, and keep diminishing the quality of that content because their budgets are continually thinner. This is an absurd choice because the audience least interested in news has already abandoned the newspaper."
Does this mean...
- That newspapers have to buck the current trend of blogging and building social networks to create inventory?
- That they have forgotten about seriously monetising their long-tail of niche content?
Perhaps. Or just possibly as Robert Picard says, "they are just trying too hard".
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