5 Little Things - August 11 2017

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  Paul Bradshaw

  

  Spotify - Web Player: Music for everyone

  gimletmedia.com

  Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.

• "New readers won’t be able to purchase subscriptions from within the app itself, but must instead do so from the FT’s website before logging in.</p> <p>This model means the FT can avoid giving Apple a cut of subscription revenue and will allow it to collect payment information and other valuable data directly from its subscribers. Spotify and other subscription-based services have taken a similar approach in recent years."

  

  Paul Bradshaw

  

  Financial Times Returns to Apple’s App Store After Six-Year Hiatus

  The Wall Street Journal. - Jack Marshall

  Publisher abandoned the platform in 2011 following disagreements with Apple over revenue and data sharing The Financial Times is launching a new mobile application for Apple iOS devices in the U.S. and the U.K., six years after it abandoned the platform following disagreements with Apple over …

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  Paul Bradshaw

  

  Introducing Anchor Videos: the best way to share audio on social media

  Medium - Anchor

  Earlier this year, we introduced Anchor 2.0, enabling anyone to quickly and easily broadcast their voice to the world with the tap of a button on …

• “At various points Foer covers the use of data, data itself, platforms, algorithms, selling advertising, advertising itself, revenue, virality and search engine optimisation. Considering the experience he went through, the absolute conviction dripping from each line and his expressed commitment to good journalism, it’s surprising that he seems to have given so little thought to any of these specific issues.”

  

  Paul Bradshaw

  

  ‘Raining clicks’: why we need better thinking on technology, data and journalism

  Medium - Chris Moran

  I’ve spent the last eight years building the case for using audience data in newsrooms and the tools and culture required to make it a force for …

• "That video that is currently soaring across social media — maybe it’s a text-heavy explainer with dynamic motion graphics, or a video-driven news story with sharply concise captions — is less an evolution of video itself and more of an evolution of the hundreds and thousands of pieces of text-based journalism that are produced and consumed digitally. " https://www.recode.net/2017/8/7/16106862/pivot-video-digital-revolution-journalism-advertising-visual-media-storytelling-business-model

  

  Paul Bradshaw

  Aug 11, 2017