Publishers reliant on classified advertising are getting hurt by the UK’s fragile local economy. Some are now desperately courting alternative advertising models, but our earnings round-up shows their growth is so far being wiped out.
Local media operators are struggling to make more…
StaceyPageOnline.com is breaking all kinds of records, so now is the time for our 52,000 unique viewers to take advantage of our highly affordable and highly visible classified ads.
Our Classifieds section has been up and running since July and we promise you will not find a more affordable news more…
CARLSBAD, CA (April 10, 2012) – Professions that provide us with our news – Newspaper Reporter and Broadcaster – ranked among the worst jobs in the nation, according to the new 2012 CareerCast.com Jobs Rated Report. more…
The precipitous decline in the newspaper industry continued in 2011, when total advertising revenues fell to $23.9 billion, down 7.3% from $25.8 billion in 2010, according to figures released by the Newspaper Association of America on March 14.
But this is a minor casualty compared with the more…
The Chicago Reader, for decades one of America’s most respected and profitable alternative weeklies, is for sale again, its troubles attributed to dramatic declines in classified ad revenues. The proximate cause: free ads offered by such competing web outlets as Craigslist. “Once [classified revenues] dried up,” commented Charles Whitaker, a professor at Medill journalism school, “there was just no place else for them to turn.” more…
Back in 2007, I wrote a series of posts arguing that “newspapers are screwed.”
The theory was that, as readers and ad spending moved online, newspapers would be unable to replace the revenue they were losing from print advertising. more…
Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns more than 200 titles in the UK including the South London Guardian series and Brighton Argus, has reported a 7.9 per cent year-on-year fall in advertising revenue for the third quarter, down from worse declines of 10.3 per cent in the second and 12.4 per cent in the first quarters. more…
Pomerado Newspapers has launched a new, locals-only classified website that features house and apartment rentals, items for sale, jobs with local companies and cars being sold by your neighbors. more…
