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Future of Media
7 key technology trends
Shift of advertising revenues
to tech giants
Over the past 5 years, newspaper have lost 50% of
advertising revenues
Google & Facebook have 76% of US Advertising
market (and growing)
Source : Internet Trends Report 2016
Ad-blockers will force industry to create better,
higher quality advertising experiences
Huge opportunity for mobile advertising market
Source : Internet Trends Report 2016
Smart & creative advertisers can create huge impact
on mobile
220 million views
on Snapchat
in
1 day
Social media stars attract huge marketing budgets
150.000 – 300.000$
per post
Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne,
and Gigi Hadid
160 million followers
New technology driven solutions link brands with
models
Increasing news consumption
via Social Media
Social media are rapidly becoming the primary
source of news
4 out 10 people in Belgium consume news via Facebook
Source : Reuters Institute for the study of journalism - Digital News Report 2016
The Times experiments with viral video on social
media to attract new paid subscribers
1.7M Views 3.2M Views
Rapid evolution towards (live) video
Fast evolution of Video Viewing to Real-Live
Source: Internet Trends Report 2016
Fast growth of User-Shared video views on Facebook and
Snapchat
Source: Internet Trends Report 2016
Source: Internet Trends Report 2016
Conversational interfaces
introduce new paradigm
Messaging platforms grow rapidly
Source: Internet Trends Report 2016
Your new
Homescreen?
Quartz
CNN on messenger ChatBot
Emotion Measurement
is the hot new frontier
Facebook reactions
What happens in your body while reading?
https://youtu.be/Oa5Odoc0ICg
Vloggers are the new rock-stars
PewDiePie
Artificial Intelligence will
help create better,
more personalized experiences
Data storage costs have dropped significantly
Mass data intelligence solutions now available
Deep Learning: general purpose AI outperforms
humans
https://youtu.be/SUbqykXVx0Ahttps://youtu.be/V1eYniJ0Rnk
Spotify personalized playlists highly popular
• Discover Weekly
• 40 million unique
users since launch in
July 2015
• 5 bio tracks streamed
• Works best in 25-34
age group
Source: Techcrunch 25/5/2016
Computers not yet smart enough to measure quality
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We have the most complete set of tools to manage all your
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Twipe helps you to convert your readers into subscribers
and integrate your monetization model
Our EngageReaders analytics module provides your editorial
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Our SCRUM development and modular product offer help
you to transform your business in an agile and lean way
• 100% automatic processes and HTML cross-platform
technology allow for cost efficient distribution
• Our international team combines entrepreneurial spirit,
excellent delivery and deep industry knowledge
Leading newspaper publishers in France, Belgium
and The Netherlands are using our technology
Regional Daily Newspaper
Print Circulation : 103.000
ePaper Circulation: 17.000
National Daily Newspaper
16 regional editions
Print Circulation : 255.000
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Editor's Notes

  1. Kendall Nicole Jenner is an American fashion model and television personality. Originally known for appearing in the E! reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Cara Jocelyn Delevingne is an English fashion model and actress. She signed with Storm Model Management after leaving school in 2009. Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid is an American fashion model and television personality. She was named one of the 12 rookies in Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue in 2014.
  2. Messenger has 900 million monthly users.
  3. Felix Kjellberg PewDiePie Maker Studios (Disney) 49 million subscribers on YouTube Video reviews 12 mio USD income
  4. Rhett McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln Neal III have more than 8 million subscribers with their Good Mythical Morning series, which parodies breakfast news programmes. The comedy duo, who both have engineering degrees and have been friends since childhood, have made nearly half their fortune through sponsored content deals, which includes shooting ridiculous and humorous commercials for businesses. Genius when you think about it.  
  5. After taking the reins in late 2013, Mosseri’s big initiative was to set up what Facebook calls its “feed quality panel.” It began in summer 2014 as a group of several hundred people in Knoxville whom the company paid to come in to an office every day and provide continual, detailed feedback on what they saw in their news feeds. (Their location was, Facebook says, a “historical accident” that grew out of a pilot project in which the company partnered with an unnamed third-party subcontractor.) Mosseri and his team didn’t just study their behavior. They also asked them questions to try to get at why they liked or didn’t like a given post, how much they liked it, and what they would have preferred to see instead. “They actually write a little paragraph about every story in their news feed,” notes Greg Marra, product manager for the news feed ranking team. (This is the group that’s becoming Facebook’s equivalent of Nielsen families.) Within months, Mosseri and his team had grown so reliant on the panel’s feedback that they took it nationwide, paying a demographically representative sample of people around the country to rate and review their Facebook feeds on a daily basis from their own homes. By late summer 2015, Facebook disbanded the Knoxville group and began to expand the feed quality panel overseas. Mosseri’s instinct was right: The news feed algorithm had blind spots that Facebook’s data scientists couldn’t have identified on their own. It took a different kind of data—qualitative human feedback—to begin to fill them in.