Content licensing as a quality signal for smarter AI

How did Google become the powerhouse that it is today? Although it's hard to remember a time when Google wasn't the most popular search engine in the world or a time when Google wasn't the company behind many of the websites and tools that people use every day (like YouTube and Gmail), Google's enormous success didn't happen overnight

The 2013 Good Push Index from Urban Airship offers two important findings for content publishers, which clarify the need for making content mobile-friendly.

Search engines drive the vast majority of traffic to most websites, but social media referrals are growing quickly while search traffic is slowly decreasing.

For the eighth year in a row, Newstex has been named to the EContent 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry list.

How do journalists and content publishers use social media and how do they feel about social media as it relates to public relations?

There is one thing that broadcast news programs, national newspapers, online media giants, smaller content publishers, and publishers of every other size you can imagine have in common.

In its seventh annual Blawg 100 list of the best legal blogs, the American Bar Association's (ABA) ABA Journal has compiled a collection of 100 of the best legal blogs, which includes many of publishers who syndicate their Authoritative Content through Newstex.

Loz James of Content Champion reached out to content experts and marketing experts around the world to create the ultimate list of content marketing book recommendations.

The illusion of online authority and influence isn't a new problem. For years, people have been buying fake Twitter accounts and using robots to inflate follower numbers and boost trading topics on Twitter.

Authority is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as an individual cited or appealed to as an expert and the power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavior.

WordPress.com is striking back against censorship. Paul Sieminski wrote on the WordPress.com News blog this week that the mission of WordPress.com is to "democratize publishing," and to that end, the WordPress.com team has set its sights on inappropriate use of DMCA takedown notices.

Entries are now open for the 2014 SIIA Previews, which will be held during the SIIA IIS2014 conference from January 29-30, 2014 at Pier Sixty in New York City.

While Google and the FTC aren't fans of native advertising, brands and content publishers are, and for many consumers and online audiences, as long as they know when content has been sponsored by an advertiser, they're accepting of it.

The NSA and other government agencies have been in the news of late after reports of telephone, email, and other forms of anti-terrorism surveillance.

The Adobe Digital Index State of Mobile Benchmark report, which tracked mobile browsing habits of more than 150 million visits to greater than 1,500 global websites between January 2012 and February 2013, has been released.

How much does the problem of content clutter cost online publishers and internet users each year? The Newstex team put together The Cost of Content Clutter infographic shown below to provide a clear picture of the amount of time and money the proliferation of web publishing truly costs.

Authoritative Content publishers need to understand copyright laws, so they can protect their own work and be certain that they're quoting sources and providing attribution in accordance with those laws.

In a new report, Pew Research Center and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released the results of a recent study which found that the vast majority of U.S. adults don't visit Facebook to find news.

When the Internet debuted in 1984, the world began to change in dramatic ways. Over the past three decades, the growth of the Internet has changed how we shop, how we're entertained, how we communicate, and how we gather information and get the news.

Today, 43% of Americans own a tablet such as an iPad or e-book reader device such as a Kindle. That percentage is up from 33% one year ago and from 6% in 2010.

At the 2013 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, leading investigative journalists from across the globe shared tips and insights about the state of journalism today.

You write great content and you've spent time building your authority in your subject, but you're still a small player in the online publishing world compared to your big competitors.

More and more newspapers are reducing the number of opinion pages in their daily publications, and others are cutting editorial sections entirely.

In the most recent issues of Australia's renegade Collective magazine, writer Kerrie Davies explains why and how syndication builds audiences for both television programs and online content.

Authoritative Content publishers know that licensed syndication through Newstex is an essential part of their content distribution strategies, so it's not surprising that nearly half of the top 10 blogs are syndicated by Newstex.

You write and publish Authoritative Content online. Do you have a brand for your content? Should you develop a personal brand for yourself? Do you need a journalism brand?

In a recent webinar hosted by SIIA, Newstex President Larry Schwartz explained seven mobile business models that content publishers and businesses need to understand in order to develop the best mobile strategy to reach their goals.

In addition to sponsoring the SIIA Previews event at the 2013 SIIA Digital Content and Media Summit in London this week, Newstex released a new free ebook at the conference.

Online publishers can already embed videos, tweets, Facebook posts, and Instagram photos on their websites and blogs, and this month, Google+ joined the "easy-embed" trend by launching embedded posts.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve the Free Flow of Information Act, which would create additional protections for journalists at the federal level.

As an online publisher, creating great content is only one part of your job. You also need to promote your content and build your audience if you want to become a successful publisher.

Did anyone truly believe that their online activities and information are really private and secure?

The 2013 SIIA Digital Content and Media Summit will be held in London later this month, and it's time to meet the innovative companies that have been chosen to present at the SIIA Previews event (sponsored by Newstex) during the summit.

A new study from Business Insider, "A Focus on the Social Customer - How Companies Are Using Social Media to Become More Customer-Centric," reveals that the majority of consumers now view social media as a service channel.

There has been so much discussion about developing mobile strategies for newsrooms and publishers with some pundits going so far as saying that the future of journalism is "mobile-first."

"Do whatever you can get get as much of your content mobile-friendly as fast as possible." That advice comes from Damon Kiesow, senior product manager of The Boston Globe during an interview with The Poynter Institute.