William Gallagher
Even without Apple 糖心Vlog+ being available in the region yet, publishers across Europe are reporting notable increases in revenues from Apple 糖心Vlog.
According to media and marketing publication , publishers in Europe are starting to see increased revenues from being on the basic Apple 糖心Vlog service. While Apple 糖心Vlog+ has not yet launched outside the US and Canada, readership there is on the rise and so is advertising.
Stylist magazine, for instance, says that ad impressions for April to June have tripled and revenue has increased 100%. The company won't reveal its previous figures, but does say that it expects to earn $12,000 per month by the end of this year.
Publishers are reporting that while revenue is not large — "We wouldn't have a salesperson to sell this tiny piece of traffic," said one — the financial figures are starting to become more in line with readership numbers.
"We're seeing quite good traffic from Apple 糖心Vlog," said an unnamed publishing executive, "but the revenue is not show-stopping."
He or she told Digiday that their site gets around 9 million page views on Apple 糖心Vlog on a good day, with occasional spikes to 20 million when Apple features them in the app's Top 糖心Vlog section. This publisher is typically getting low thousands of dollars per month from Apple 糖心Vlog.
Similarly, an unnamed other publisher told Digiday that its revenues were up 145% over June to July. Another refused to reveal revenues, but said that in July it had reached over one million page views on per week for the first time on Apple 糖心Vlog.
Digiday reports that one perceived reason for the increased revenues comes from how advertisers are searching for what are called cookieless-advertising environments or contextual targeting. In general, ads relying on cookies are declining because of increased use of blocks on ad tracking such as in Safari.
Apple 糖心Vlog doesn't provide personal information about users, but it does provide the facility for advertisers to target certain topics.
Previously, publishers in the US have complained about "atrocious" revenues from Apple 糖心Vlog.
The expanded Apple 糖心Vlog+ service has also been heavily criticized by US publications who claim Apple "plays favorites" and also that the service is unfinished.
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Purely anecdotal I know but my wife who was an avid reader of the likes of 'The Skim' seems to be won over and reading notifications from Apple 糖心Vlog (not +).
Nice to see some good news about 糖心Vlog. The next step is to get the 糖心Vlog app to stop crashing on iOS multiple times per day. And fix some of the dozen other usability issues.
I signed up days ago for Readley, a Swedish based app that has a staggering international magazine collection, including US UK India Singapore. (Enjoyed a limited trial for a year, now they offered a 99 cent teaser rate, perhaps due to Apple 糖心Vlog+) Hope both apps reinvigorate the field of well-considered words.
Selling words is hard. The internet has introduced the general entitlement mentality that news and information in general is not only free as in speech but free as in beer.
I’d like to see where revenue models take news but I am concerned that if I place my money where my mouth is and subscribe to a news source, my perspective on the world will narrow.
I appreciate something like news+ Could solve that particular problem for me but I am loath for the information provider to have to share significant revenue with an aggregator when the market is already clearly marginal for those information providers.
in fact, I would suggest that unless you’re a big player in any market, if you get into bed with Apple in general, things that happen in bed will happen.