NDM News Story 67: SoundCloud to introduce advertising and subscriptions in UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/03/soundcloud-to-introduce-advertising-and-subscriptions-in-uk


SoudCloud will begin to use advertising and start a premium tier for $9.99 a month in order to create more revenue. The subscription tier was released earlier this year for the US but has yet to be released in the UK, with SoundCloud stating that it is necessary for the artists for sound cloud to do this so they can pay the artists.

• SoundCloud,  with 175 million users
• SoundCloud, which introduced advertising to US users in 2014
• SoundCloud in competition with the paid-for services offered by Spotify, which has 30 million paying subscribers, and Apple Music’s 11 million-plus.

By starting a subscription fee similar to Spotify and Apple Music, SoundCloud want the opportunity to compete with the big name streaming sites. Although their number of users are definitely below that of Spotify or Apple Music, SoundCloud seems to believe that they can soon become a competitor as well.

News Stories Index

1. 18/09/15: Reviews, tweets, Instagram posts: why customers are the new marketers
2. 18/09/15: Channel 4 chief warns broadcasters over American influence
3. 25/09/15: Government may privatise Channel 4, document reveals
4. 25/09/15: How young viewers are abandoning television
5. 02/10/15: Twitter 'to unveil founder Jack Dorsey as new chief executive' ack-dorsey.html
6. 02/10/15:No, vinyl sales have not overtaken music streaming revenues
7. 08/10/15: Peeple review people: the user-review app you didn't dare ask for
8. 08/10/15: UK digital ad spend soars despite fears over ad blocking
9. 16/10/15: Twitter slashes global workforce as it struggles for growth
10. 16/10/15: Ofcom to take on regulation of video-on-demand services
11. 23/10/15: Disney to launch UK film and TV streaming service for £9.99 a month
12. 23/10/15: Apple News arrives in the UK with 14 newspaper and magazine partners
13. 02/11/15: Sun website to scrap paywall
14. 02/11/15: New wave of podcasts aimed at younger, wider audience
15. 02/11/15: ITV could snatch The Voice from BBC with offer to air kids' version
16. 02/11/15: Candy Crush(ed): Zuckerberg pledges to halt Facebook game invitations
17. 13/11/15: Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots
18. 13/11/15:Sun website traffic recovers as Mirror slips back
19. 20/11/15: Sky launches new set-top box to take on Netflix and Apple
20. 03/12/15: A dating site for Disney fans? It's a whole new world …
21. 03/12/15: Google accused of spying on students in FTC privacy complaint
22. 03/12/15: The&Partnership launches talent agency for YouTube stars
23. 03/12/15: YouTube tipped to strike licensing deals for TV shows and films
24. 04/12/15: Mail Online US almost doubles advertising growth
25. 15/12/15: Tim Cook defends Apple iPhone Smart Battery Case, says it's not a 'hump'
26. 15/12/15: Taylor Swift reappears on Spotify, but her music is credited toLostprophets
27. 15/12/15: BuzzFeed editor-in-chief: fair to call Donald Trump a 'mendacious racist'
28. 15/12/15: The Independent’s blog site hit by ransomware attack
29. 04/01/16: Sun website traffic rises by a quarter – but it is eclipsed by the Mirror
30. 04/01/16: Telegraph criticised by watchdog for 'misleading' Michelin advertorial
31. 04/01/16: Facebook ditches Flash video in latest blow to maligned plugin
32. 04/01/16: Sky broadband to bring in 'default on' setting to block adult content
33. 04/01/16 :Make or break for the Sun and more consolidation
34. 04/01/16: Can upstarts like Vice and Buzzfeed keep their cool?
35. 12/01/16: Apple promises a good night's sleep with new iPhone feature
36. 14/01/16: Netflix, Spotify and Apple power UK entertainment revenue to record £6.1bn
37. 22/01/16: Following North Korea on Twitter is not a crime, court rules
38. 22/01/16: Times and Sunday Times to launch weekly digital edition
39. 29/01/16:  Apple – losing out on talent and in need of a killer new device
40. 29/01/16: Mirror looks to target female readers with secret national newspaper project
41. 12/02/16: Google pulls adblocking app for Samsung phones
42. 12/02/16: Fine Brothers spark fury with YouTube trademark attempt
43. 22/02/16: Twitter's US users fall by a third in two years - report
44. 22/02/16: Independent owner considering closing national print titles
45. 23/02/16: Mobile operator Three to introduce adblocking
46. 23/02/16: Facebook sets up 'social VR' team to explore virtual reality beyond games
47. 23/02/16:  Facebook wants you to film birthday messages for friends
48. 24/02/16: More than 9 million Britons now use adblockers
49. 25/02/16: Online harassment of women at risk of becoming 'established norm', study finds
50. 08/03/16: Rupert Murdoch's (maybe) farewell to Twitter is the end of an era
51. 08/03/16:  Google hires founder of 4chan, the ‘Zuckerberg of online underground’
52. 11/03/16: Facebook to pay millions more in UK tax
53. 31/03/16: Video-on-demand survey finds 65% of viewers would block ads 
54. 11/04/16: North Korea announces blocks on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
55. 11/04/16: SoundCloud presses Go on its subscription streaming service
56. 11/04/16: The Times drops online rolling news for four editions a day
57. 21/04/16: The best TV apps for children from BBC iPlayer Kids to YouTube and Sky Kids
58. 21/04/16: Criminals hide child abuse images behind legal porn sites
59. 21/04/16: Google claims YouTube ads are more effective than TV
60. 21/04/16:  New York Times to invest $50m on global digital expansion
61. 25/04/16: Facebook is going to start showing you pieces people actually read
62. 28/04/16: Facebook, Google campuses at risk of being flooded due to sea level rise
63. 28/04/16: UK ad market booms but newspapers lose £155m in print advertising
64. 02/05/16: Twitter misses expectation on revenue but adds millions more users
65. 02/05/16: New York Times to close editing and prepress facilities in Paris
66. 02/05/16: Almost half of those planning to use an adblocker say they just don't like ads

NDM/Identity Index

11/01/16 Reading the riots
15/01/16  Post-colonialism: Destiny Ekaragwa film analysis
25/01/16  Post-colonialism: Edward Said
29/01/16  Feminism: Post-feminism article and No More Page 3 research
01/02/16 Feminism: post-feminism article and No More Page 3 research
05/02/16 Feminism: Waves, Feminism and online activism
12/02/16  Identity and Film - Media Factsheet task
12/02/16 Collective identity and the media

Notes on Impact of NDM on the News Industry Lecture

• The speed of everything is due to smartphones
• Email, Twitter, Facebook - ways for news journalists to get news
• Trending hashtags are important for news journalists to get news
• Increase of platforms to broadcast news on 
• The opportunities of audience interactions with UGC can have positives and negatives
• Twitter is a source of breaking news
• Whitney Houston's death was not reported by news agencies at first. The News agencies reported it after looking into a claim from a Twitter user about the death
• "False information spreads just like accurate information" Farida Vis of the Wold Economic Forum
• Verification of pictures are needed and then they are often manipulated
• As newspapers and televisions news are in decline, social media offers a platform to share news
• In the past, there was appointment news where you viewed news at a certain time e.g. 10 o'clock news, 6 o'clock news. However, now, news can be accessed at any time
• News reporters value public interaction
• Sensationalistic
• symbiosis between mainstream media and social media
• taste and decency is a western concept - Al Jazeera shows very graphic content
• Western news looks at neutrality and balanced arguments while Non western platforms look at the betterment of society
• USA cannot show the point of death on the news
• Al Jazeera was the first outlet to broadcast the Bin Laden videos which led to them being banned in the USA - Al Jazeera's values are the truth and showing everything
• Al Jazeera in the UK, does not need to follow OFCOM
• BBC is funded by the licensing fee, SKY is funded by Murdoch, Al Jazeera is funded by the royal family
• Journalism is losing specialism
• Social media creates a social sphere
• government uses social media for surveillance - impedes democracy
• bad news sells
• techno optimists believe social media is a tool for democracy
• citizen journalism changes the way media outlets release news
• In the past, it was the journalists who bought the news however, now, their is a symbiotic relationship between the public and journalists
• ethical considerations - graphic? intrusion or invasion of privacy? 
• airing graphic content is tasteless as well as dehumanizing and disrespectful to the family
• Positive of UGC - acts as a witness to the truth
• Negatives of UGC - quality isnt always great, difficulty of identifying source, cannot be published without verification of time, place and people, accuracy?, agenda?
• mainstream media relied on social media
• integration between social media and news

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NDM News Story 66: Almost half of those planning to use an adblocker say they just don't like ads

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/27/adblocking-ads-kpmg-report-uk-block-ads



Company, KPMG, held a survey on society's usage of adblocking software and the results showed how prevalent ad blocking is and how this is a great threat to the advertising industry.

• more than 2,000 people, found that 44% of UK adults said they were planning to use an adblocker within the next six months.
• Of those people, 46% said they would block ads because they “do not like adverts at all”
• 47% of people who said that a key reason was that ads take up too much space on screen.
• More than 40% also cited a lack of advertising relevance
• Almost 60% of 16- to 24-year-olds plan to block ads in the next six months, as do 55% of people earning more than £55,000.
• adblocking currently remained more popular on laptops and desktops, with 91% of those planning to use an adblocker on those devices

The method of monetising media through adverts is gradually losing its great effect of  making money through this method as more and more people are choosing to download adblocking software to avoid the irritating adverts. Eventually, if there isnt a new way of making consumers view the adverts, companies would need to think of a new way in order to make money.

NDM News Story 65: New York Times to close editing and prepress facilities in Paris

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/26/new-york-times-editing-prepress-facilities-paris-london


The New York Times plan to expand digitally and in order to do this, they have decided to cut jobs and and close the editing and prepress facilites in France and move more of their international operations to London. Although France is a vital market, the company want to save more money whilst also sustaining their Print presence internationally.

• The move will see up to 70 roles eliminated or relocated
• The New York Times is investing $50m in global digital expansion. 
• NYT announced a $50m global digital expansionwith a new unit called NYT Global
•  reports that the company was looking to cut hundreds of jobs later this year.

Since more people are using technology to access the news, great numbers of printing facilities are no longer needed. However, keeping the print format is still necessary in order to provide news to the people who are part of the digital divide.