Content licensing as a quality signal for smarter AI

As a follow up to Newstex's release of its free ebook, "The Publisher's Guide to Mobile and Tablet Development," it's important to review the legal considerations that go into mobile app development and marketing.

In 2011, YouTube released the YouTube Creator Playbook, which is a fantastic resource to help online publishers improve their online video content.

Newstex has released a new free ebook, "The Publisher's Guide to Mobile and Tablet Development," which is available for download now.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a report this week that clarifies how companies can use social media sites to announce material, nonpublic information.

Branded content, brand newsrooms, branded journalism, native advertising, brand publishing -- these are all terms that weren't part of common vernacular ten years ago, but with the growth of social media, the publishing industry has a new source of competition with very deep pockets -- brands.

Are you sending out your email messages at the best time to get the most opens and responses? Based on email volume between the fourth quarter of 2011 and the fourth quarter of 2012, it's doubtful.

What's coming in the future for WordPress.com? CEO Matt Mullenweg shared some insights into what might be coming for WordPress at a SXSW panel earlier this month that Laura Hazard Owen of Gigaom narrowed down to three key areas of focus: long-form content, curation, and native advertising.

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its State of the News Media 2013 report, and two themes are clearly communicated in the findings.

Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013 according to a blog post that was published on the Official Google Blog this week.

Just how big is the mobile app market?The answer is $25 billion in 2013 according to ABI Research.That's just a drop in the bucket compared to what's coming in 2018 when ABI Research predicts mobile app revenue will climb to $98 billion.

The 2013 Digital Influence Report from TechnoratiMedia has been released, and in addition to analyzing how brands connect with online influencers to promote products and services, the report analyzes how influence is created.

According to a Pingdom demographic study of readers of the top 100 blogs (according to Technorati), the typical reader of the world's top 100 blogs is 38-years old.

The ever-evolving world of digital publishing is moving faster than ever, and to help you stay ahead of the pack, Paul Canetti, CEO and Co-Founder of MAZ Digital, shared five digital publishing trends that are already shaping 2013 with EContent.

How mobile app dependent are we? That's one of the questions that Apigee, the API company, wanted to find out when it surveyed 760 smartphone owners in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany.

Have you surveyed your audience lately? If not, how do you really know that they're satisfied with your content? There might be big or small changes that you could make to your content which could open the doors to greater success.

It used to be that Authoritative Content publishers only had to battle low quality online content published by content mills on blogs, in article directory sites, and on websites owned by the companies behind those mills.

Are you wasting time on activities that are causing you to decrease your content publishing productivity? February is Time Management Month, so let's take a look at five activities that commonly decrease content creation and publishing productivity and ways to recoup that lost time.

If you use online video as part of your content publishing mix or are considering adding video to your content strategy, then you need to understand how to optimize that video content to reach the widest audience.

The massive volume of information available to audiences online has changed the world and made it easier than ever for people to educate themselves about any topic.

As an online content publisher, you spend a lot of time creating Authoritative Content that is useful to your audience. You also spend time ensuring that your website or blog, where your online content is published, is well-designed.

Facebook might hold the top spot as the largest social network of active users by a very wide margin, but the battle for second place is heating up.

Pictures and videos just got bigger on Twitter. Yesterday, Twitter rolled out some updates to make it easier for users to view photos and videos on profiles and in search results.

Next time you want to reference a Twitter update that you made or another Twitter user (with a public Twitter profile) published, don't just retype the text or take a screenshot and add it to your article.

If you publish Authoritative Content online, it's likely that you'll be contacted at some time by someone who wants to interview you as a story source. If your content is high quality, your reputation will grow.

If you're over the age of 40, you probably remember a time when there wasn't an Internet. Email didn't exist, and many people didn't have video cameras let alone smartphones and the ability to upload and share videos with the world within seconds.

The landscape of media will continue to rapidly evolve in 2013, and Josh Stearns, Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director for Freepress, shared three critical media issues with PBS that he believes cannot be ignored in the coming year.

This week, Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget revealed the secrets of success for Business Insider at FOLIO's MediaNext conference and shared his complete presentation deck on the Business Insider website.

As you might expect, there was a massive number of iOS and Google Android device activations and mobile app downloads on Christmas Day 2012.

Online publishers have easy access to their audiences -- something that didn't exist 10 years ago. Back then, the concept of getting instant feedback on what you write and publish was unheard of, but today, online publishers get continuous critiques.

It's the final day of 2012, which means content publishers already have the wheels in motion to start 2013 with a bang. It seems like a perfect time to think about how content consumption will change in 2013 and how Authoritative Content publishers need to adapt to stay relevant in the new year and beyond.

The innovative B2B content companies chosen to deliver a 5-minute presentation to an audience of key decision makers as part of the SIIA Previews 2013 have been announced.

2012 was a busy year for Apple's App Store with a massive number of new apps debuting, a wide variety of apps being downloaded, but only a small number of apps getting significant traction.

Print versions of magazines have been killed off in rapid succession in recent years. Most recently, Newsweek was added to this list with its final print edition to be published on December 31, 2102.

What topics were discussed in online content the most during 2012? How did the news, media, and brand marketing affect the content industry over the past 12 months?

Many websites that relied heavily on traditional search engine optimization tactics to drive traffic to their sites and build their audiences found themselves in deep holes earlier this year when Google rolled out its Panda and Penguin search algorithm updates.

The Newstex tech team has been hard at work launching iPad apps with Authoritative Content publishers and distributors in recent years.