Knowledge Bridge

Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition

Measuring and optimising Google AdSense campaigns

Google’s advertising network, AdSense, has a number of services available to help you measure how effective the ad campaigns earning revenue for your site are performing, and insights into how to make them perform better. We go through…

//August 28 / 2012 //read more

How to get started with Google AdSense

Ad networks can be an important element to building revenue for your site. In many markets, Google AdSense is the dominant ad network. This step-by-step guide shows you how to setup an AdSense account and put your first ad on your website.

//August 28 / 2012 //read more

Real-time analytics can help you use scarce editorial resources more effectively

Although analytics tools have always provided newsrooms with a good way to evaluate their stories, real-time analytics tools are helping editors make more informed decisions about how they position stories based on how their audiences are…

//August 17 / 2012 //read more

BBC Olympics digital video strategy holds lessons for multi-screen future

The BBC’s ‘four-screen’ video coverage of the London 2012 Olympics provides important insights into how consumers engage with video across mobile, tablet, PC and connected TV. The BBC’s experience shows that consumers will embrace choice…

//August 16 / 2012 //read more

What social media success looks like and how to achieve it

With social networks and social media attracting hundreds of millions of users, news organisations have worked hard to develop social media strategies. One of the biggest questions amongst editors and media executives has been whether the…

//August 15 / 2012 //read more

Required Reading: SA journalists embrace digital and Indian mobile users ditch print

In a new feature for the Knowledge Bridge, we highlight digital media trends and insights from around the world. This week, we look at how print media in South Africa recognise the digital transition by adding it a digital focus to their…

//August 10 / 2012 //read more

Launching, evolving and sustaining your digital media product

In June’s Digital Briefing, we talked about developing a product mindset to help you identify audience needs so that you can set your digital priorities, and this month we look at what you’ll need to launch, evolve and sustain your digital…

//July 31 / 2012 //read more

Firstpost: ‘Breaking views’ break through India’s cluttered online news market

To give you a practical example of how to launch a digital news product, we profile Firstpost, a news site launched in May 2011 by India’s Network18. We speak to Firstpost’s Durga Raghunath on the editorial and business thinking behind the…

//July 31 / 2012 //read more

African news organisations need to embrace mobile web opportunities

Africa is set to become the world’s second largest mobile market by the end of this year. Audiences and advertisers are rapidly moving to mobile, with many African mobile owners only accessing the web via their phones. News organisations…

//July 26 / 2012 //read more

New service monitors political buzz in Indonesian social media

Two Indonesian digital agencies have decided to tap into the rise of social networks as the new forum for political debate in Indonesia by launching a service to monitor and measure the political buzz on social media. The new service…

//July 16 / 2012 //read more