Content Is King – And Must Be Paid For!

We can happily bang on about search marketing until the cows come home, but Clickmate is unequivocal about the one thing that underpins any good digital strategy, and that’s content.

This fact is becoming painfully obvious in the war that newspapers are currently waging to stay afloat. In the good old days, newspapers were physical platforms for display and classified advertisements. Journalists were there to provide the meat to the newspaper, the stories; the reason why people bought them in the first place. But journalists, sub editors and editors are not cheap, so the cover price alone could never support the running costs. Display and classified ads brought in the revenues and allowed newspapers to make big profits. More…


Can Bebo Bounce Back?

They say that pioneers in the social network sector never die, they just get reinvented, a bit like search marketing you might say! Well, asks the Clickmate team, can the formerly great Bebo find its way back to the promised land?

There’s a familiar pattern with many of the pioneering social networking sites: techno idealists set them up, sell out to the less creative money men desperate to get hold of a money spinner and then they lose their way. Facebook and Twitter have remained comparatively true to their founding ideals, and even though the money men have certainly penetrated the ‘geek’ circles, the original teams are by and large still there. More…


Paid Digital Access Becoming Accepted

News UK, which is set to move offices as reported by Clickmate in Fortress Wapping Breached, is claiming that there now exists a greater acceptance of paying for digital access.

The Times and The Sunday Times website was one of the first pay walls to be established in the UK and after an initial lukewarm reaction from consumers, the strategy appears to be gaining ground. Another News UK title The Sun will also dip behind a pay wall in the coming months. More…


Fortress Wapping Breached

After 27 years in residence, News Corp is moving its offices from Wapping to London’s South Bank reports Clickmate.

The company has created a new centre for its operations which will include the major parts of its Group, including News UK (until recently News International), Dow Jones and Harper Collins, at The Place Building, which has been termed by locals as the Baby Shard. More…