Dominic Young
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Why subscription isn’t the panacea for publishers who are finally turning away from free. (This is the view of Stratford from Hackney Marshes this morning. Just a nice picture. But also, perhaps, something about mists clearing) Let’s flip the cliché about the definition of madness: if something isn’t working, however many times you try it,…
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Why creating a Schengen Zone for audiences might be the best response to Google’s let off. Great news: Google have – finally – been judged to be a monopoly in a US lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice. Less great: they have been punished with the mildest of slaps on the wrist. A few weeks…
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This will be where I try to put everything I have written, regardless of where. I’ve grabbed a load of stuff from other sites and it’s all below. I’ll be adding new things at the top. And I’ll be tidying up and making it all a bit nicer as I get settled in – apologies…
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The Financial Times has joined a growing group of newsbrands to have licensed its content for use by artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI. It joins companies like Axel Springer, Le Monde and Associated Press in doing so. John Ridding, the FT’s CEO, points to a tension inherent in their deal. On the one hand, it positions…
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Like all good foundations, the ones on which the media industry relies are usually invisible. We only see what is built on top — a flourishing, plural creative sector. Until, that is, it starts to collapse. The media’s foundation is copyright. As dry and dull as concrete. But if you take the concrete away, a lot of…
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INMA CEO/Executive Director Earl Wilkinson’s recent blog about the future of community media added an essential voice to a growing cacophony. We’ve all heard the bad news about cuts from the LA Times, Sports Illustrated, Pitchfork, and Reach in the UK. Many news media organisations seem to have entered their final phase. It’s time to…
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Earl Wilkinson’s blog about the future of community media adds an important voice to a growing cacophony. We have heard the bad news about cuts from the LA Times, Sports Illustrated, Pitchfork, and Reach in the UK — just the latest in a long and gloomy line. Many news media organisations seem to have entered their final,…
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Dominic Young, founder & CEO of Axate, wants the news business to learn from the best brands and make products customers want to pay for. Can Coca-Cola’s thinking reverse the decline? I was recently asked if I could offer some examples of businesses that have pivoted from a pure subscription business model to one driven…
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Google wants people — and companies in particular — to use its AI systems. There’s a problem, though; AI companies currently stand accused of industrial-level copyright infringement by helping themselves to untold amounts of content found online and using it to train their systems. What company would want to rely on and pay for a tool that might turn…
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In his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996, American poet John Perry Barlow wrote: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have…
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