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: 3rd International Tablet & E-Reading Conference

The emergence of a new generation of tablet in 2010 has pushed another deadline on the e-reading projects of publishers. 
We invite you to join this unique conference in Hamburg (October 5) and discover our impressive list of speakers.

 

Réalité augmentée: Une édition spéciale du magazine de Süddeutsche Zeitung en réalité augmentée

Le magazine de Süddeutsche Zeitung nous montre ce que l'on peut faire avec la réalité augmentée grâce à son supplément du 20 août. Une démonstration vidéo explique étape par étape comment procéder. Pour profiter de cette possibilité d'animation des textes rédactionnels ou pour obtenir des informations supplémentaires avec cette réalité augmentée, vous avez juste besoin d'un smartphone et d'une application que vous pouvez télécharger gratuitement.

Lien vers la vidéo  (en anglais)
 

: Request for information at Business Unit

"Emerging Digital Platforms and Business Development"
send an e-mail to hub@wan-ifra.org or contact a team member
 

In 2010: You might be interested in...

Digital Media Asia 2010 (English)
Content Monetisation On Emerging Digital Media Platforms
Online Media Asia, 18 November
Mobile Media Asia, 19 November
e-Reading Asia, 20 November

WAN-IFRA Study Tour:
Products and Business on Tablets & Mobile (English)

7 - 11 February 2011

9th Digital Media Europe (English)
Winning concepts on Tablets & Mobile
10. und 11. November 2010

For strategic decisions, check our Executive Programmes

: Mobile Media Day 2010

While presenting portfolios rich with news or dedicated applications, mobile websites or web applications, the lecturers at Mobile Media Day (May 18 & 19 in Amsterdam) also shared their own questions with the 85 delegates.

 

Mobile : Sharing best practices

More than 80 percent of the billions of applications that will be downloaded this year by mobile phone users will continue to be offered free of charge and belong to the “entertainment” category. The offer is too limited to attract all mobile users. Media companies can get things moving here. Some have started already and we will relate in this best practices corner their experiences.

Mobile trends:: The coming decade

Rudy De Waele is a well-known mobile blogger and event organizer. He decided this year to ask many contributors to publish their thoughts about the coming mobile decade. This slide show sums up the contributions. It is remarkable and very inspiring. 

Mobile Trends 2020

 

Mobile Web Usage: Trends 2009-2010

Every month Quantcast measures more than 200 billion requests for Internet content. A growing portion of these requests originate from networked mobile devices. The boundary between mobile and PC (e.g the future tablets) is blurring, and Quantcast expects that it will push ‘web access on the go’ to new levels in 2010.

Intensifying Smartphone Competition: Nexus One, first Google phone

Google announced its Nexus One wireless handsets powered by Android 2.1. The phone is manufactured by HTC. It will rely on Google online marketing power to make its way to consumers.

 

What's the strategy for Google in the mobile world?

This is not only about becoming successful and profitable in the handset business...

“To date, Google has pushed for three main avenues to enter the mobile arena..." read how CreditSights' Senior Analyst -Telecom and Telecom Suppliers- Zhiping Zhao comments the launch.

“Google is serving its own direct interests: grow the use of the web (mobile or otherwise) in order to continue to grow its revenues to 98% advertising. How to do this: lower the entry barrier (= handset + subscription) by starting with the handset, as it is the only one of the two components within its reach at present".
says Didier Durand, head of Architecture & Technology / Business Engineering at Publicitas who believes in a promising long term strategy (his full article in French)

Must read: The six immutable laws of mobile business

“Professor Sugai is probaly the most knowledgable person in the world about the true mobile consumer beahviour. No hype, no joking, just a great man with a excellent perfomance in stage - now in a book format! Philip actually makes a complicated eco system as the mobile world is, into a understandalble logic. The notion of Simplexity is innovative and true for more than mobile. Smart and excellent book" says Stig Nordqvist, WAN-IFRA Director Emerging digital platforms and Business development.
Philip Sugai will speak at our 8th Mobile Media Day.
Read our review of the book and download the first chapter

 

Events: Beyond 2009

"Consumers, the New Authority," was the slogan of WAN-IFRA's 17th World Digital Publishing Conference, intimately known as Beyond the Printed Word. The programme included Bonnier Group, Helsingin Sanomat, Le Monde Interactif, Telegraph Media Group, Zeit Online and others.

: Digital Media Asia 09 provided a forum for an intense exchange of ideas

Summaries of the presentations will be posted soon!
For inquiries, please contact Gilles Demptos at gilles.demptos@wan-ifra.org

Mobile Media Day 2010: Des échos de la conférence Mobile Media Day 2010

Les 85 participants de Mobile Media Day ont écouté les meilleures pratiques du marketing mobile et étaient bien sûr curieux d’en savoir plus sur les stratégies iPad déjà lancées ou en développement.

La nouvelle régie publicitaire mobile iAd d’Apple était aussi au centre des discussions d’une audience intéressée par la publicité mobile pour monétiser ses plates-formes.
 

Peu après la conférence, Apple a annoncé qu’elle avait déjà engrangé 60 millions de dollars de commande pour le lancement d’iAd en juillet.

iAd menace-t-il les éditeurs ? demande Stig Nordqvist, directeur du département WAN-IFRA « Plates-formes numériques émergentes et développement commercial » et organisateur de la conférence.

  • Pour Florian Gmeinwieser, directeur général de l’agence de publicité allemande Plan.Net Media, « iAd permettra de toucher des cibles démographiques attractives pour les annonceurs », mais il ajoute aussi que, en tant qu’agence de publicité, il était contre les limitations techniques et les règles commerciales imposées par Apple avec iAd.
  • Un souci que Omar Hamoui, CEO d’AdMob a formulé de la façon suivante le 9 juin : « Apple a proposé de nouvelles conditions pour les développeurs qui, si elles étaient approuvées en l’état, interdiraient aux développeurs d’applications d’utiliser des solutions publicitaires d’AdMob et de Google sur l’iPhone. Ces conditions touchent aussi bien les sociétés aux technologies mobiles concurrentielles (comme Google) que toute société dont l’activité primaire ne repose pas sur les publicités mobiles. Des milliers de développeurs risquent donc de voir leurs revenus diminuer ou tarir complètement. Ces conditions concernent les grands comme les petits développeurs en les obligeant à un choix restreint dans leur recherche de revenus. Et comme de nombreuses applis gratuites ou peu onéreuses sont financées par la publicité, ces conditions touchent de la même façon les consommateurs. »

 

La voix d’Apple

De nombreuses applications iPhone intelligentes ont été présentées à MMD cette année et Stig Nordqvist a saisi l’occasion et a relayé le résultat d’une récente rencontre (dans le cadre de l’executive programme eRev ) avec Paul Burford, évangéliste d’Apple :

  • Parmi les notions de base qui sont souvent négligées, citons le conseil suivant de Stig Nordqvist : « Développez une superbe icône pour l’iPhone et enregistrez votre appli. 
  • Un des conseils fréquemment donnés par Apple pour le développement d’applications est de démarrer avec le moins de fonctions possible mais de fignoler leur développement (est-ce que l’appli peut être utile, est-elle fun ?). Ensuite vous passez à une mise à jour qui en fait un peu plus. Ce qui est essentiel pour concevoir une appli, c’est de savoir exactement quel est son but : une appli sérieuse doit fournir de nombreux contenus au sein desquels on peut naviguer et elle doit être orientée consommateur ; une appli utile (par exemple les actualités du monde de la finance) doit être riche en graphiques avec un seul écran et une navigation toute simple. Quant aux applis divertissements, elles doivent présenter un graphisme riche et adapté à l’interaction. Il ne faut pas baser le développement sur des fonctionnalités à inclure dans l’appli mais adopter la formule : Qu’est-ce qui différencie ma solution des autres et à quelle audience s’adresse-t-elle ? Les gens aiment tout ce qui est frais et nouveau. Si vous lancez une mise à jour, renseignez les gens sur ce qu’implique exactement cette mise à jour. Pensez aussi à l’In-App Purchase afin de générer des revenus pour des achats effectués sur un coup de tête mais laissez le contenu gratuit dans votre App store, car il retiendra l’attention du client. 

Espaces temps et simplexité

Parmi les conseils de Philipp Sugai, directeur du Mobile Consumer Lab, Université internationale du Japon, deux ont alimenté les discussions des experts mobiles présents à la conférence. Le premier propose une définition de zones temporelles (time zones) comme base de la conception de services et applications : « Nos vies sont découpées en tranches horaires. Nous courrons d’un rendez-vous à l’autre, d’une réunion à une autre ; nous passons de la maison au travail, du travail aux loisirs, mais il existe toujours des zones intermédiaires quand on passe d’une chose à l’autre. Par définition, les contenus et services que nous utilisons pendant ces laps de temps doivent être concis, faciles à consulter et à comprendre, à interrompre et à reprendre par la suite. D’un autre côté, nous avons des zones privilégiées caractérisées par le long terme et où l’utilisateur se consacre totalement à son mobile. Dans cette zone privilégiée, il doit pouvoir trouver des contenus et services plus profonds et plus étendus. Du point de vue du consommateur, selon les contraintes de temps et les besoins, les zones intermédiaires ou les zones privilégiées peuvent se situer exactement au même lieu et à la même période de la journée. Si les mobinautes apprécient les contenus et services de la zone intermédiaire, ce qui est dédié à la zone privilégiée doit être prioritaire. Enfin, un autre grand principe qu’il a développé est celui de la simplexité : « La majorité des gens maîtrise mal les nouvelles technologies. La simplexité mobile, c’est savoir combiner la technologie, les services intégrés, l’analyse intelligente (préférences, basée sur le comportement) et une interface conviviale axée sur les besoins et capacités de l’utilisateur. »

Quelques diapos donnant une petite idée de ce qui a été discuté cette année au cours de la conférence Mobile Media Day...

L’offre d’Edipresse est extrêmement riche en services et applications mobiles et Marc Lamarche, responsable des services mobiles d’Edipresse soulève un enjeu de taille, celui de la publicité sur les mobiles. « La plupart de nos contenus sont gratuits à l’exception de deux produits de niche. Et nous en resterons là car nous croyons à la publicité sur mobiles. »

Les applications de niche peuvent avoir une portée limitée mais elles s’adressent à une audience ciblée qui est justement ce que recherchent les annonceurs. Deux exemples ont été donnés : Femina d’Edipresse et AutoPilot de Gannett/USA Today.

 

 

Selon Matt Jones, vice-président de la stratégie et des activités mobiles pour Gannett Digital/USA Today, les annonceurs reconnaissent l’efficacité des applications verticales : « Par exemple, les 40 000 utilisateurs réguliers de notre appli AutoPilot sont une cible intéressante pour quelques-uns de nos annonceurs. »

 

 

Matt Jones décrit en détail le lancement récent et le modèle économique de l’appli iPad d’USA Today. Plusieurs semaines après son lancement aux États-Unis, elle avait déjà enregistré 375 000 téléchargements. « Notre objectif est d’augmenter notre audience et le temps passé par les gens dans l’environnement de notre marque. Notre but n’est pas de simplement utiliser une autre plate-forme. »
Le groupe RCS, éditeur de Corriere Della Sera et Gazzetta Dello Sport, propose des formules d’abonnement aux contenus de ses quotidiens sur l’iPhone mais aussi via les boutiques OVI (Nokia), Blackberry, Vodafone, Samsung. Et Federico Vittadello est satisfait des premiers résultats de ses offres payantes lancées cette année.

Mais l’iPad, c’est aussi autre chose pour Federico Vittadello et il explique pourquoi dans la diapo ci-dessous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expertise at your fingertips: Mobile Suppliers Guide

This online guide has been created to help publishers interested in mobile activities and strategies to find their appropriate partners in the industry.
Use the selection critieria “Search Categories” and “Filter by company” to get access to partners that will help you kick-start your mobile activities or revamp your mobile strategy!

Research: Android: Google's answer to mobile

On the face of it there’s not much to interest publishers about a new mobile phone operating system (OS) – after all, few users would be able to tell you what OS they have on their phone. So why should you care about Android? The ‘G-word,’ that’s why because nobody can afford to ignore it when Google gets behind a move to open up the mobile market. Read more.

Research: Mobile Services Special Report

This Special Report provides an overview about which kind of mobile services media houses can provide, their business models and expectations about how the mobile market can be utilised effectively for newspaper publishers. The report, published in late 2007 and written by IFRA's Kristina Bürén, is a follow-up to IFRA's first report about Mobile Services in 2003. Read more.

Interview: Some tips for starting mobile

Kristina Bürén, Business Development manager from IFRA Sweeden and author of the IFRA Special Report 'Mobile services - an update', gives some recommendations about what newspapers can do in the mobile arena. Read the interview here.

Events: Mobile Media Day

Seventy-five representatives of the mobile and news publishing worlds converged in Amsterdam on 21 April for IFRA's Mobile Media Day conference. The message was clear: Mobile for publishers might still be in its embryonic stages, but you'd better move now or the train will run you over. IFRA's Mari Pascual captured the essence of the conference at this multiblog.


On the Blog

Fri, 2010-04-23 07:30 — Valerie Arnould

Independent.ie a été le premier éditeur de journaux nationaux irlandais à lancer une application iPhone (22 octobre 2009). Il appartient aussi à cette première vague d’éditeurs au monde à faire payer les applis actualités.

Dans cette interview, Patrick Lenehan, directeur des technologies dédiées aux activités numériques pour Independent News and Media (INM) en Irlande, nous parle du processus de lancement et des réactions des lecteurs.

Tue, 2010-04-27 10:06 — Valerie Arnould

Tous les mois, Quantcast enregistre plus de 200 milliards de recherches de contenu sur Internet. Une proportion croissante de ces recherches sont effectuées à partir d’appareils nomades disposant d’une connexion Internet. La frontière entre les appareils nomades et les PC (par exemple les futures tablettes) est floue et Quantcast pense que cela favorisera « l’Internet mobile » qui devrait atteindre de nouveaux records en 2010.

Tue, 2010-04-27 10:06 — Valerie Arnould

Tous les mois, Quantcast enregistre plus de 200 milliards de recherches de contenu sur Internet. Une proportion croissante de ces recherches sont effectuées à partir d’appareils nomades disposant d’une connexion Internet. La frontière entre les appareils nomades et les PC (par exemple les futures tablettes) est floue et Quantcast pense que cela favorisera « l’Internet mobile » qui devrait atteindre de nouveaux records en 2010.

Mon, 2009-08-17 10:04 — Valerie Arnould

How can I build mobile device-friendly websites? This question will be one of the most frequently asked at the coming IFRA Expo in Vienna (12 - 15 October 2009 www.ifraexpo.com).

Fri, 2010-05-28 11:13 — Valerie Arnould

Instead of waiting for the Japanese launch of Apple's iPad, Sony, Toppan Printing, KDDI Corporation, and the Asahi Shimbun have announced they will establish a joint venture to develop an eBook distribution company that will build and manage a common distribution platform for books, comics, magazines and newspapers for the Japanese market. And the door is opened for other companies.

Mon, 2009-09-07 14:19 — Valerie Arnould

UK-based analyst firm Canalys, released its findings on smartphone market share based on Q2 2009 unit shipments : "Nokia maintains global lead, although its performance varies by region.Touchscreens become the preferred interface, representing 40% of all shipments. Apple’s success continues, as the iPhone takes 23% of the North American market. But RIM continues to gain share, succeeding with its push into the consumer market. Finally, Operating system choices are proliferating, primarily at Microsoft’s expense" are the main findings.

Tue, 2009-09-08 15:57 — Valerie Arnould

On September 2-3, Nokia held its Nokia World conference -- the biggest annual event for the Finnish giant -- in Stuttgart, Germany. Several announcements were made, including forays into new business areas for the company: the launch of a connected mini-PC called Booklet 3G and the start of a promising financial service called Nokia Money (based on Obopay’s mobile payment platform). On the "handset" side, Nokia is focusing innovation on the successful smartphones market, and its Ovi platform is now open to developers.

Wed, 2009-09-16 15:01 — Valerie Arnould

It’s all over the press this week: The Wall Street Journal will start asking for money to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile devices. It is working against a trend that shows that media companies are massively embracing mobile devices, but few dare to ask money for their news applications.

Fri, 2009-11-20 15:21 — Valerie Arnould

The Boston Consulting Group has entered the paid content debate this month with a valuable contribution. It’s “Willingness to pay for news online” report presents key findings from an international survey.

Fri, 2009-11-20 15:26 — Valerie Arnould

Without a shred of doubt, 2009 has been the year of the e-reading device, and new models will come out quickly next year. But computer manufacturers are trying hard to shift consumer attention to the tablet PC.

Apple’s tablet is still a rumor, as is Microsoft’s in-process "tablet-booklet" Courier (in the "late prototype" stage of development, according to the CNET gadget blog). But ICD has released concrete information on its Vega Tablet, which will run Android 2.0:

Fri, 2010-01-08 12:47 — Valerie Arnould

CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Las Vegas, the world's largest consumer technology trade show is starting today (7 January). Two new e-reading devices, the Skiff Reader and the QUE proReader, developed with the press industry in mind, will be launched at the event. And it comes as no surprise that Amazon has chosen this very same week to announce that its Kindle DX (also designed for the press!) was ready for a worldwide shipment.

Fri, 2010-01-08 12:47 — Valerie Arnould

Intensifying Smartphone Competition: Google's answer is "Superphone"

On January 5, 2010, Google announced its Nexus One wireless handsets powered by Android 2.1, only slightly more than a year after the announcement of the first Android-powered phone, HTC's G1. The phone is sold by Google and manufactured by HTC.

Mon, 2010-01-11 17:24 — Valerie Arnould

e-reading devices: Wrap up CES Las Vegas 2010

The number of announcements in the e-reader area confirms, should that be necessary, that the race is now on between all major electronics manufacturers.

Mon, 2009-08-10 16:04 — Valerie Arnould

The good news is that media are massively “embracing the iPhone”, the worrying aspect is that not a lot dare to ask money for their applications. Following the announcement mid-July by Apple that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its App Store (the largest applications store with more than 65,000 apps), Ben Lorica, Senior Analyst at O'Reilly Media, checked the data warehouse of all apps available in the U.S. iTunes app store that O’Reilly maintains.

Tue, 2010-08-24 14:08 — Valerie Arnould

While Internet users are spending more and more of their time with social networks, advertising spend continues to be directed towards more traditional web uses. What are the reasons for this paradox? Jean-Nicolas Reyt analyses the situation*.

Tue, 2010-10-19 13:36 — Valerie Arnould

It might be that Apple just made life easier for publishers pondering if they should start developing for smaller-sized devices.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs commented during the company’s quarterly earnings call yesterday (Monday 18) that he did not believe on an “avalanche of tablets” about to enter the market: “It appears to be just a handful of credible entrants, not exactly an avalanche”.

Fri, 2009-08-14 11:27 — Valerie Arnould

In U.S, Android, with its open platform, appears to have the best chance of mounting a comeback against Apple's platform. “With a wave of 18 more Android handsets shipping in 2009, the chase pack is growing and looking for signs of fatigue from the leader” reports Peter Farago, Vice-president marketing of Flurry.

Tue, 2010-11-09 17:39 — Valerie Arnould

Amazon has announced new revenue-sharing terms for magazines and newspapers wishing to join the Kindle platform. Publishers will keep 70 percent of the retail price (minus delivery costs) of each publication sold.

Fri, 2009-11-20 15:12 — Valerie Arnould

Anders Stenbäck, Business Development Manager at Hesingin Sanomat of Finland explained the secrets of making money from hyperlocal, in this case with a mapping/directory product called My Own City which answers such questions as where to find a good restaurant/plumber/tailor/hairdresser etc.

Fri, 2009-11-20 15:11 — Valerie Arnould

Few knew what to expect when Inmaculada Martinez of Stradbroke Advisors took to the stage to talk about 'Positive Deviants and the Agents of Change' but what followed was a lively canter through media predictions and Generation Y – the generation that grew up with digital and which in 2010 will outnumber the baby boomers. 90 per cent of them have joined a social network and with that social media has overtaken porn as the number one activity online.

Fri, 2009-11-20 15:13 — Valerie Arnould

Philippe Jannet, CEO of Le Monde Interactif talked about that paper's mobile experience. Le Monde already has a paid for model online with a subscription scheme that sees some content published for free and other services, including the right to contribute UGC charged for. Jannet mused on the idea of charging users to write for the paper as he didn't invent the model but it works and ads sell for more on subscriber pages than free ones.

Tue, 2009-06-09 13:39 — Mari Pascual

After weeks, if not months, of continuous rumours and leaks, last night Apple unveiled its new iPhone, the 3GS, the "S" standing for speed, as the company claims its new model is twice as fast as its previous one. Among the improvements, a three-megapixel camera and the possibility to take video, as well as a landscape keyboard and copy, cut-and-paste functionalities. Did it live up to its hype? Your take.
See iPhone 3GS description in Apple’s official site

Wed, 2009-06-03 11:40 — Mari Pascual

AdMob, a company that serves graphical banner and text link ads on mobile web pages for more than 6000 publishers all over the world, just released its April 2009 report that offers a number of insights and trends regarding mobiles. Based on its own data, the AdMob April report compares market share of smartphones sold by operating system (OS) to that of mobile web and application usage in the AdMob network, as well as smartphone browsing of mobile websites vs. smartphone browsing of HTML sites.

Fri, 2009-07-10 23:00 — Mari Pascual

Now that the debate about micropayments for online content is back and at full steam, USA Today Publisher David Hunke thinks mobile news is ideally suited for this strategy as well, reports AP. “I’m not sure we realized what we had,” he said about the successful iPhone application of the daily. “I think that is a value readers will be willing to pay for.”

Fri, 2010-09-10 16:04 — Valerie Arnould

“We are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code” said Apple in a recent statement. Designers can now develop apps with Flash and compile them into a native iOS format. Apple also published for the first time its App Store Review Guidelines to help developers understand how they review submitted apps.

Tue, 2009-05-26 12:45 — Western iMedia

Awards in more than 30 categories of mobile applications were presented at the First Annual Mobie Awards in New York on 18 March. The Awards were held in association with ThinkMobile, 18-19 March, a major mobile conference and expo produced by Mediabistro.com (a division of Jupitermedia Corporation). Among the winners, The New York Times took tops in the News category and Bloomberg Mobile in Finance.

Tue, 2009-12-01 13:58 — Valerie Arnould

At no time in the foreseeable future will digital advertising revenues replace those lost to print, making the search for new business models ­including paid-for online access for news ­ a pressing concern for the news publishing industry, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said in its annual world press trends update.


In the Wiki

Thu, 2011-01-06 13:51 — WAN-IFRA

The iPad is a crystal clear reminder of the news industry's failure to produce an effective news show online. The challenge facing newspapers today is not only to embrace the iPad's abilities in sophisticated apps, but to learn how to turn links into a consistent, continuous news show across all devices: web, mobile, and tablet. As the eyeballs leave the newspapers' web sites, this can be a major step in bringing them back.


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