Digital news publishing: Increasing content consumption and distribution on social platforms

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Digital news publishing: Increasing content consumption and distribution on social platforms Sebastian Zontek & Jarek Gora, INMA Audience Day, Amsterdam, June 2016 Vijesti.me, a digital publisher from Montenegro case study

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Digital news publishing: Increasing content consumption and

distribution on social platforms

Sebastian Zontek & Jarek Gora, INMA Audience Day, Amsterdam, June 2016

Vijesti.me, a digital publisher from Montenegro case study

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MontenegroSmall country in Balkans, 660k people - almost as big as... Amsterdam!

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MontenegroSmall country in Balkans, 660k people - almost as big as... Amsterdam!

12M page views1M readers (Balkans)

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Deep.BI helps Vijesti better understandcontent consumption and distribution

by deepening knowledge about their audience

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The problemBring new readers

from social platforms

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Get to know how your audience is consuming content

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Different kind of content needs way different metrics

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Key metrics we have chosen

Attention Time Spent per Reader

Virality

Engagement ScoreCombined and weighted:

Virality, ATS and Commentability

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Highest ATS

Different strategies for different type of content

Highest Virality

Highest Engagement

Put behind paywall

Boost in social media

Heavily promote: homepage, social media

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For news time is crucial - we want to spread the most viral news as soon as possible

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TOP 5 sections:Attention Time per Reader

News 313sSociety 294sPolitics 283sEconomy 280sScience 280s

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TOP 5 sections:Virality

Coffee 79Sport 59TV 49Life 43Technology 43

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TOP 5 sections:Engagement Score

Forum 2,054TV 784News 762Sport 614Caffee 614

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Social media promotionsof most viral articles

● Looking for articles with highest Virality Score which is relative to total PVs

● Promoting these articles in social media (also by paid campaigns)

● Selling ads on those articles with higher CPM● Mostly, we get positive ROI with money spent on social

platforms

2-3x lower bounce rate

50% higher time spent

2x longer life & 2x more PV

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Social media promotions- positive side effects

● Building publisher’s brand awareness on platforms by presenting originally produced quality content

● Expanding audience - acquiring new readers

● Increasing loyalty of current readers

● Higher chance for subscription conversions through quality, targeted traffic

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Vijesti & Deep.BIFuture Plans

● Developing audience on social platforms● Creating dedicated content to each platform● Testing new monetization models of social platforms

audience. Example: branded content

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Questions?

[email protected]

INMA Audience Day, Amsterdam, June 2016