All posts tagged: audience

S&P Global on niche audience mastery

S&P Global on niche audience mastery

Published by Sam Flores

Steve Matthewson, head of news at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Picture: Submitted B2B publishers targeting niche audiences must understand the individual readers behind their corporate subscriptions, said Steve Matthewson, head of news at S&P Global Market Intelligence. S&P Global is a financial information and analytics company made up of four divisions – Ratings, Market Intelligence, Energy and S & P Dow Jones Indices – serving professional users across financial and corporate markets. Its Market Intelligence division offers a flagship desktop product, Capital IQ Pro, which combines company and market data with research, news, analytics and workflow tools. The UK government puts the cost at £55,000 per user per year. Capital IQ Pro users can access news as one component of the product, with this being a personalised news homepage combining S&P Global’s own specialist journalism with content aggregated from other publishers like the Wall Street Journal. It also offers customisable dashboards and market alerts, alongside archived content, newsletters, podcasts, video content and in-person events. S&P’s Market Intelligence division has around 360,000 active users, according to …

Cate Blanchett chastises theater audience for filming her London play: ‘It spoils it’

Cate Blanchett chastises theater audience for filming her London play: ‘It spoils it’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Cate Blanchett had a message for the audience at London’s National Theatre after a performance of her new play, Electra/Persona: please stop filming. In a video shared on social media Saturday, Blanchett addressed the audience after the curtain call, asking anyone who had recorded the performance to put their phones away. “There are few places on this planet where we can simply be together and be present,” she says in the clip, still wearing her stage costume of a black T-shirt and baggy black trousers. “I understand you like filming the curtain call — and it is kind of flattering in a way — but for anyone who is filming the show, please don’t, because it spoils it for the next group of people who come in and are present with us. So thank you very much.” Her comments were met …

Belle and Sebastian play spontaneous gig in Australian park after Perth concert cancelled

Belle and Sebastian play spontaneous gig in Australian park after Perth concert cancelled

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Belle and Sebastian played an impromptu concert in a park in Perth, Australia, after being forced to cancel their concerts in the area. The Scottish band, which formed in 1996, had been due to perform at the Astor Theatre in the area on Thursday (17 September) as part of their 30th anniversary tour. But after the gig was cancelled “due to freight delays from the East Coast affecting critical equipment for the show”, frontman Stuart Murdoch posted on Facebook on Thursday asking fans to gather in Langley Park near the venue. “Hi guys, Stuart here. Sorry about the news below,” he wrote, attaching a screenshot of a map with a cross drawn over a specific spot. Murdoch on stage with the band in 2017 (Getty) “If anyone fancies it, we could meet up at 7pm at Langley Park, bottom of Hill Street. I …

Question Time Audience Laugh At Reform’s Danny Kruger Over Crypto Cash Claim

Question Time Audience Laugh At Reform’s Danny Kruger Over Crypto Cash Claim

Published by Sam Flores

Danny Kruger on Question Time. BBC A Reform MP was laughed at by the BBC Question Time audience after he insisted the crypto billionaires who gave the party £72 million will receive nothing in return. Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne donated £36m each to the party last weekend. Reform has been accused of planning to hand hundreds of millions of pounds of tax breaks for crypto investors if they win the next election. But on Question Time on Thursday, Kruger sparked incredulity by claiming Delo and Harborne would get nothing in return for their record-breaking donations. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement To laughter from the audience, the former Tory MP said: “I think that it’s an admirable thing that these two men – who will get nothing for it, no peerage, no policy. They’re not getting anything for it. There’s absolutely nothing in it for them.” Reform leader Nigel Farage last week said he was “honoured and humbled” at the donation. “Both men know that we are the only party that can turn the country around and win …

Oprah Audience Calls For ‘Same Passion’ For Black Child-Killers As For Lindsay Clancy

Oprah Audience Calls For ‘Same Passion’ For Black Child-Killers As For Lindsay Clancy

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Oprah Winfrey flew into Massachusetts to host a “watershed” conversation about Lindsay Clancy. What the cameras captured was not a sombre conversation regarding her three dead children. It was a room brainwashed into treating a child-killer as a ideological cause – and then demand the same energy for black women who have murdered their kids. Yes really. The takeaway from this particular creepy corner of culture is no longer “killing your children is unthinkable.” Rather, it is “lets make sure we support child killers of color just as much as white child killers.” As we now know, Clancy strangled her three children – 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan – with exercise bands in the family basement on January 24, 2023, then cut herself and jumped from a second-story window. She has never denied the killings. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis and a lack of criminal responsibility. Prosecutors said the acts were planned. After 21 days of testimony and more than 80 witnesses, the jury hung. A …

Podcast mastery: How publishers can find an audience and make money from it

Podcast mastery: How publishers can find an audience and make money from it

Published by Sam Flores

Chris Stone, executive producer for podcasts and video at the New Statesman and founder of Podcast Crew. Picture: Submitted Publishers must identify a target audience and niche before launching a podcast, according to Chris Stone, executive producer for podcasts and video at The New Statesman. Stone, who also founded B2B marketplace Podcast Crew, said publishers should track relevant metrics and be prepared to hire at least one full-time podcast producer. Since Stone started at The New Statesman in 2020, he has overseen its transition to video podcasting. Since making the podcast the primary Youtube output for the publisher, subscribers on the platform have grown from 30,000 to 220,000, he said. When should you launch a podcast? “I’ll tell you when a publisher shouldn’t enter the podcast space, which is when they fancy doing a podcast because they think it’ll be cool,” said Stone, adding this risks it becoming a “hobby project”. When a publisher has enough trust and engagement with its audience, he added, a podcast is a “good asset” to introduce to drive paid …

Hulu’s best hitman drama is only 30 minutes long, and it has a 98% audience score

Hulu’s best hitman drama is only 30 minutes long, and it has a 98% audience score

Published by skeptic

I almost passed on Mr Inbetween because the runtime looked like a red flag. Every prestige crime drama I actually finish runs 50 minutes or more, like the still-making-news Breaking Bad and The Sopranos — shows that need the extra time to let a scene sit before it turns violent. Twenty-five minutes felt like a show that hadn’t put in the hours yet. It was a Sunday afternoon, I was bored, and I was scrolling Hulu for something I could bail on after 10 minutes if it didn’t hold up. The title card came up, and I checked Rotten Tomatoes out of habit, mostly to confirm I wasn’t wasting an afternoon. 95% from critics. 98% from audiences. I sat at that second number for a second — I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen a show clear 90% with almost nobody I know having heard of it. Could it be another Hulu series few have heard of that was really good? Twenty-six episodes later, I understand completely. Ray Shoesmith doesn’t need an hour. He …

Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit 

Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit 

Published by skeptic

Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different! We want to thank everyone who applied to take part in our programming and to help share their expertise with the startup community. After careful review, we have 11 finalists who are vying for four slots within this year’s event agenda, and each one showcases the kind of practical, essential insights that can only be delivered by those who have built, iterated, and succeeded. You can vote via this link to weigh in on which sessions ultimately make the cut. Submissions will close on September 4. If you’re voting and haven’t already gotten your Founder Summit tickets this year, what are you waiting for? On November 4 in Boston, you’ll get the chance to learn directly from the experts in intimate, exclusive sessions that can put you ahead of the competition or set you up to play a pivotal role in developing the next era of innovators. …

Amanda Knox: Audience gives verdict on controversial Edinburgh Fringe comedy show Cartwheel

Amanda Knox: Audience gives verdict on controversial Edinburgh Fringe comedy show Cartwheel

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Audience members who saw Amanda Knox’s controversial comedy show at Edinburgh Fringe on opening night say that it is both “respectful” and “genuinely funny”. Knox, who was falsely imprisoned in 2009 for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, performed her new show Cartwheel on Friday night following unsuccessful calls for it to be pulled from the line-up. Kercher, an exchange student from the University of Leeds, was killed aged 21 in Perugia, Italy in 2007. Knox was convicted in 2009, along with her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, of Kercher’s murder and sexual assault. She was released from prison in 2011 and cleared by Italy’s Supreme Court in 2015. The show’s title refers to a story that the now-39-year-old did cartwheels in the police station following Kercher’s death. Meredith Kercher (right) with her sister Stephanie Kercher (Family handout) Kercher’s sister Stephanie Kercher …

New Business Insider CEO focused on monetising off-platform audience

New Business Insider CEO focused on monetising off-platform audience

Published by Sam Flores

Business Insider CEO Christian Baesler. Picture: Axel Springer Business Insider is set to begin monetising its non-website audience, which new CEO Christian Baesler said has not been done “in any meaningful way so far”. Baesler, who has been leading Business Insider on an interim basis since June and has now been appointed permanently, said the brand is entering its “next phase”, which is also centred on the “need to become essential for a number of professional niches”. He is bringing social media expertise from five years as president and CEO of former Hot Ones producer Complex and then just over a year as chief operating officer at Buzzfeed after its 2022 takeover. Visits to the Business Insider website in the US more than halved in the past two years to 30.9 million in June. Ten people were laid off in May at Axel Springer-owned Business Insider, its fourth round of layoffs in four years, as the newsroom scaled back in some coverage areas and refocused on others. Baesler told Press Gazette: “Historically, Business Insider has …