Tuesday, June 5, 2012

New Publishflow Whitepaper Series


We are excited to announce the release of our new whitepaper series for digital media publishers.

The "Understand Your Live Audience" whitepaper series is intended to shine some light on how live data can be used by digital media publishers to better understand audience, competitor, social and topic trending data.

We would like to thank Scott Anderson for all of his efforts wording, packaging and getting these ready to share with our clients and prospects.

Scott is a digital media executive and consultant with more than 15 years of relevant experience as Senior Vice-President of Digital Content Strategy for Postmedia Network Inc, Managing Director of canada.com, Senior Vice-President, Content at Canwest Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Citizen.

You can view each of the whitepapers at the links below.

Part of the "Understand Your Live Audience" Whitepaper Series:
Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper

Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper


Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper

Part of the "Understand Your Live Audience" Whitepaper Series:
Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper

Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper


Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper

Part of the "Understand Your Live Audience" Whitepaper Series:
Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper

Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper


Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper

Part of the "Understand Your Live Audience" Whitepaper Series:
Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper

Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper


Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper

Part of the "Understand Your Live Audience" Whitepaper Series:
Publishflow Audience Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Competitor Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Social Media Analytics Whitepaper
Publishflow Topic Analytics Whitepaper

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The new publishflow has arrived

To our long time publishflow enthusiasts, users and readers, you may notice a few things around here have changed.

After 3 full on months, we are happy to announce that publishflow v2 has arrived with a new website, a new interface experience for desktop and tablet devices and most importantly, the introduction of several new live data streams to help your media team make better informed content publishing decisions for web, mobile and social audiences.

Publishflow v2 combines real time audience, competitor, topic and social trending data in a single service. Anyone on your team can now launch personalized live trending dashboards in minutes.

All of the live data streams can be viewed on a single screen. There is much more freedom for you to turn data streams on and off as you need them and as your hour to hour or day to day needs change. 

You can watch the publishflow v2 overview video here for a taste of the new service:

 

We will be launching many new service videos in the coming weeks that will explore all of the new live data streams in detail, however for now the main product highlight for publishflow v2 are:

Audience Analytics
Spot the stories, referrers, authors, locales and mobile devices driving audience interest right now.

Competitor Monitoring
Get notified anytime a lead story changes on the home page or section page of a competitor website.

Topics Trends
Live updates of emerging topic trends as they unfold in mainstream media, blogs and social media.

Social Media Search
Keyword search social media services including Twitter and Facebook. Get results by location, gender and sentiment.

Personalized Dashboards
Configure your dashboard views with the live data streams that matter to your specific job function and workflow.

Tablet Ready
Live audience, competitor, topic and social trending data is at your fingertips all the time.

If you are interested in setting up an online demo please send us a message using our contact form or you can call our VP Sales Jamie Thompson directly at 1.866.390.5446 ext 710.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

How many links a day do you produce?

One of the things we monitor for our digital media clients is the number of new content links they produce each day. New content links can be stories, blog posts, photo galleries or videos. Anything published to the web or mobile with a unique URL that has a chance to be consumed.

Generally "New links per day" is an overlooked metric, which can actually be an excellent indicator over time of:

1. Search visibility - more seo friendly links means more love from google, yahoo and bing

2. Sharing potential - more links enables your twitter and facebook fans the opportunity to share more frequently

3. Revenue generated -more links means more potential page views with CPM display ad payouts

If you notice that your new links per day is trending up over time, then you are boosting your chance to increase your search, sharing and revenue possibilities on web and mobile.


At the #paywalls12 conference in London today, some recent tweets to confirm similar thinking at economist.com.

Economist doubles content production...





New content has to increase...






Contact us to find out how to start measuring your new links per day and other visitor, competitor and topic trending metrics.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Kontexto Secures $1.4 million Growth Investment

We are pleased to announce that Kontexto, owner of publishflow.com, has secured a $1.4 million investment from Akoranga AG.

Details are available in the press release below:



Kontexto Secures Series A Growth Investment

Investment to Accelerate Sales and Product Development of Company’s Real Time Data Collection and Analysis Platform

London,UK (PRWEB UK) 15 January 2012

Kontexto Inc., a high growth leader in real time data collection and analysis for media organizations, today announced that it has secured $1.4 million in funding from Akoranga AG. Akoranga is a swiss based private investment firm. This investment will primarily be used to grow Kontexto’s sales and product development activities.

Kontexto provides media companies with a complete set of real time data collection and analysis services that help to extract business value from massive amounts of online audience, competitor and social sharing data. Broadcasters, newspapers, content agencies, portals and B2B publishers are all working with Kontexto’s platform to facilitate their ongoing real time data collection and analysis needs including copyright audits, audience analysis, revenue performance monitoring, social sharing trending and competitor intelligence.

“We reviewed many companies across Europe and North America who are trying to help media organizations create value from online data analysis. Kontexto in our estimation has the most flexible data collection capabilities and when they say real time data analysis they mean it,” said Jenifer Osterwalder of Akoranga. “Our strategy is to find great teams with big visions and early customer adoption of their services, Kontexto fits this and we are pleased to welcome them into our investment portfolio.”

“We have spent the past two years strategically building our customer base with the largest media brands in the world,” said Tom St.John CEO and co-founder of Kontexto. “Now is the time to accelerate our sales and product development activities in North America and Europe. Akoranga is the right investment partner to help us with this next growth phase and we are excited to be working with them.”

With the new funding, Kontexto will be hiring a new VP of Global Sales to help build and manage the sales activities of the Kontexto real time data collection and analysis platform. Additional investment will be made in expanding the platform capabilities to handle real time data analysis across all social media services including Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google Plus and Foursquare.

Link to release