Virgin boss Richard Branson is expected to launch an iPad only magazine as early as next Tuesday.

Sounding a bit like a cross between GQ, Wired and Vanity Fair it has been under development since the summer. Read More »

Things are reported to becoming together for News Corporation’s app based newspaper, which is to simply be called The Daily, as a string of staff are hired to write content and a budget of around $30 million has been assigned.

The project is expected to launch before the end of the year and Rupert Murdoch is said to be personally heavily involved in the development of The Daily, which at one time was rumoured was going to be named The Daily Planet. Read More »

There’s a good piece on the Wall Street Journal looking at how publishers are devoting more time to analysing their reader’s social media habits as they get more and more traffic via social sources.

As I read this I was reminded that yesterday I was accused of being overly negative about News International and The Times paywall. Not true. I don’t have a problem with their paywall: it’s just the way they have done it – hermetically sealing the paper off from the social web and stopping its content from being shared in anyway whatsoever. Read More »

This has been under the radar. Two companies in Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group are working together on a paid content initiative (don’t call it a paywall), called The Content Project (TCP).

It hopes to create a network of publishers who will offer readers an electronic wallet for buying content across a range of sites. Read More »

There’s a piece in the Independent today on The Times paywall that sheds some light on the reaction of advertisers and publicists to goings on at Wapping. With one media agency buyers saying that it is not advertising on the site because of the fall in traffic. Read More »

If News International is finding it hard going to attract paying subscribers to The Times website then it strikes me that chances of success with a News of the World and Sun paywall are slim to non-existent. Someone needs to take the paywall blinkers off. Read More »

Dear Rupert Murdoch,

Last week, on 4 August, Brand Republic reported that you ‘gave the first hint’ that subscriber levels to The Times pay wall are ‘strong’. Good on you. But what you have done has really hacked me off. You may not care about this. After all, who am I? Well, I am one of your customers. Read More »

Ahead of a relaunch of MySpace, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has announced that its Digital Media Group, which houses the social network, haemorrhaged $174m (£109.5m) in the fourth quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, which brought the division’s full-year operating loss to $575m. Read More »

Rupert Murdoch today gave the first hint at how well The Times is doing behind its paywall. Speaking today Murdoch, the News Corporation chairman, said that subscriber levels for The Times following its move to erect a pay wall were “strong”. Read More »

An Italian newspaper is reporting that Google plans to launch a paid content system for publishers before the end of the year, according to a report in an Italian newspaper. Read More »