The afternoon session at Future Media Lab 2016 showed that while European media are warming to the idea of using advanced language technologies to share content across borders, their audiences are already well ahead of them.
In this week's news round-up, Filip looks into the causes of adblocking, the implementation of native ads, strategies to cope with a rapidly changing content distribution landscape and the popularity of mobile news apps.
Lorena Boix Alonso, the Head of Unit for Converging Media and Content, DG for Communications Networks Content and Technology, shares her insights on the converging media world and how DG CONNECT is supporting innovation, media diversity and freedom in Europe, the relevant funding opportunities, the regulatory framework and the biggest challenges.
Continuing with our bi-weekly news roundup, Filip Ševčík shares the news that caught his eye over the holidays. The news round-up is a way for the Future Media Lab. team and members of the Future Media Lab. network to share articles about innovations and developments in the media sector, including references to relevant media policy debates.
Nic Newman, Researcher at Reuters Institute, discusses his predictions for journalism, technology and media in 2016. One of his key observations: audience engagement will be key this year.
The Future Media Lab. talks to Roberto Viola, Director-General of DG Connect in the European Commission, about the Commission's Digital Single Market Strategy, the AVMS directive, and how to create a regulatory environment appropriate for sustainable business models for media companies in Europe.
In the first edition of the Future Media Lab.'s news round-up for 2016, Filip examines the different initiatives launched by digital platforms, alternatives to ad-dependent business models for publishers, and the impact ad-blocking has had on the sector.
In this week's Future Media Round-up, Filip looks into Facebook's Instant Articles platform, Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages, and the European Commission's plans to modernize EU Copyright rules, among other issues.
Angela Mills Wade, Executive Director of the European Publishers Council, shares the results of the "Rights Data Integration Project", a partially EU-funded digital copyright innovation project that is anticipating many aspects of a “modern copyright framework”.
In this week's news round-up, Filip looks into the move to block ad-blockers, the rise in native advertising, and how publishers are finding a way to get -- and keep -- their readers' attentions.
In this edition of the Future Media Lab.'s bi-weekly news round-up, Filip looks into the use of paywalls, platform ambassadors, the battle against ad-blockers, and more.
In this week's news round-up, Filip looks at how publishers are reacting to the rise in ad-blockers, starting with Axel Springer's attempt to ban users who utilize them. He also looks into different discussions that came out of the Digiday Publishing Summit and FIPP World Congress.