If you work in software development, sooner or later you learn that code is a liability — all things being equal, the less code you have, the better off you are ...

With iOS 9, the next major release of the iPhone and iPad operating system, just around the corner, the number of questions we’re receiving from publishers is increasing by ...

Advertising is an important aspect of a profitable news app, but it’s often not a trivial feature to design and build. That’s because the way ads work in ...

Pick an audience. Any audience. Pick any group of people who anyone would be interested in reaching, and Facebook and Google will have approximately 100% coverage.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest ...

Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest daily newspaper in the Nordics, and very much a pioneer when it comes to the digital transformation of the newspaper industry. Richie has worked with ...

I often speak to publishers whose tablet publications are in trouble. (Most tablet publications are in trouble, so this should surprise no-one.)

The typical trouble is simple, yet devastating: no ...

With the introduction of iOS 7, we’ve decided to no longer recommend Newsstand to our Maggio publisher clients. We recommend publishing non-Newsstand iOS apps instead.

Before I dive deeper ...

How can you pull off a successful transition from print to digital? A good first step is to make sure that you are moving towards a business that’s actually ...

If you think about it, a print magazine hitting your letterbox is one hell of a push notification.

Afterwards, you collect the thing, deposit it on the side table, and ...

Be careful what you measure, the saying goes—it might get improved.

Today, online media is mostly measuring pageviews and, accordingly, optimizing for them. Josh Sternberg wrote about the downsides ...

If you want your digital publications to make money, here’s a great first step: when customers want to give you money, don’t refuse. Take the money.

Like, for ...

Imagine that there was a way to block ads in print magazines. How many Vogue readers, for example, would use this AdBlock for Print?

None of them. The whole premise ...

Recall that a typical print magazine is made of:

• A reasonably limited number of stories, each with relatively high production value

• A reasonably limited number of full-page advertisements, each sold ...

I fancy myself a pretty clever fellow, but I never learned to master the standard clothesline model of iPad magazine navigation. That’s where the pages of an individual article ...