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Thursday, March 29, 2012

More publishers plan to collaborate

Further to my post on publisher collaboration, today the Financial Times published an article on the topic, indicating that it is not only trade publishers innovating in this area.

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is largely comprised of the digital arms of traditional media companies including News International, magazine publishers such as IPC, Bauer, Condé Nast and Haymarket, and TV broadcasters ITV, the BBC, Channel 4 and British Sky Broadcasting.

The AOP annual census of UK members revealed that 72 per cent of the companies surveyed are either collaborating and building partnerships with similar publishers, or plan to do so, as they grapple with the new digital landscape and the challenges arising from the dramatic decline in advertising revenue.

AOP Director, Lee Baker, said “Publishers are coming together to understand how they can work collaboratively, we are seeing more of that on a much more sophisticated level … lots of businesses are simultaneously moving into very, very new territory, which is driving this approach.”


The article is available at: http://techcircle.vccircle.com/500/publishers-collaborate-in-digital-drive/

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