La cercanía y la capacidad de participar activamente en la comunidad sitúan a los medios locales y regionales en una posición envidiable con respecto a otros medios que abarcan espectros informativos de mayor amplitud.
Este posicionamiento, junto a la caída generalizada de la inversión publicitaria en los últimos años y la pérdida de protagonismo en los anuncios clasificados, ha propiciado la búsqueda de nuevas fórmulas que garanticen la viabilidad de estos medios. Así, la relación con las marcas ha cambiado en los últimos años. Ha pasado de ser una relación con menos anunciantes pero más estrecha y prolongada en el tiempo, en el que el medio busca, en la afinidad de la relación, la consecución de los objetivos de posicionamiento del anunciante, tal y como puede verse en la experiencia del Charlotte Agenda, que exponemos en nuestro resumen de hoy.
En este afán de mejorar la relación con la comunidad, los medios locales exploran también otras vías de ingresos. Los eventos, la publicidad nativa, la generación de contenidos para las marcas, la recuperación de los micropagos por noticias y una mayor conexión con los comercios locales son algunos ejemplos que analizamos hoy.
Charlotte Agenda’s local news formula: fewer advertisers, deeper partnerships [inglés]
en Digiday.com
If scarcity is dead on the Web, the Charlotte Agenda didn’t get the memo. Charlotte Agenda is a North Carolina-based news site that launched earlier this year with a simple, if counter-intuitive advertising model: Rather than work with large group of advertisers on low-CPM display deals, the site plans to pursue big partnerships with a handful of local and regional brand advertisers. That, in theory, means more ad revenue.
Why local publishers are well-placed to become service providers [inglés]
en TheMediabriefing.com
Regional publishers rely for their survival on the local communities which their journalism served. That was the established ecosystem for many decades, until the advent of the internet robbed the publishers of the classified ad section which made up much of their revenue, and falling print circulations as audiences get their local news from digital sources.
Watch retail to know the direction of local media [inglés]
For local media in the US, advertising revenue still determines our success. Sure, we’re trying to shift more of the revenue to readers with digital paid content strategies, but we still live and die on ads. And one thing that has struck me since I took over as executive editor of a handful of newspapers in the US state of Wisconsin, is how the retail landscape has shifted in my communities over the past fifty years.
It’s complicated: The tangle of news, native advertising and trust [inglés]
According to this year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 28% of American and United Kingdom news audiences who could recall seeing native advertising online said it made them feel less positive about the news organization carrying it.
Content Marketing vs Native Advertising – Which Produces Better Results? [inglés]
Content Marketing is the buzz term on everyone lips, but native advertising has also been steadily gaining traction as brands look to best utilize new content distribution methods and means to spread their message, particularly via online platforms. But which one delivers better results? A new report from the combined forces of Fractl andMoz, and published Harvard Business Review, aims to answer just that.
6 pillars of a revenue-generating business model for digital journalism [inglés]
The newspaper industry’s financial health is almost hopeless. Traditional media has survived with water through its nose because it has failed to prioritise investments in digital media.
But there is salvation. Traditional media needs to create new sources of revenue to make up for what they lose in the digital life with advertising and circulation revenues.
Who’s making money — and who isn’t — in local online news? [inglés]
Michele’s List is an invaluable compilation of the most promising local online-native news sites trying to make a go of it in this disrupted age. Compiled by Michele McLellan, the list’s admissions criteria are that a site is “progressing on three fronts — content, engagement and revenue.” McLellan periodically surveys the list’s members on a host of issues; we wrote about her most recent findings earlier this month.
Micropayments for news stories make a comeback. (Maybe.) [inglés]
Journalism has a revenue problem — as in, not enough. News companies are desperate for solutions, scrounging pennies and quarters from the back of the couch. Paywalls this month, pay-to-play events next month. A little here, a little there. And when one solution doesn’t work, news digs up an older idea, and tries it in a different flavor.
