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Why media companies integrate operations, the problems of integration, whether audiences want integration and possible alternatives.
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Cross mediareligion or business model?
Piet Bakker
Hogeschool Utrecht
University of Amsterdam
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Outline
1. Why & how of convergence
2. Problems & chalenges
3. Off line & online audiences
4. Alternative approaches
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1. The business of cross media
Digital challenge– serving existing audiences better
Losing off line footprint– finding new (younger) audiences
Costs savings– printing, distribution, digitalization, UGC
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Digital platforms, integrated newsrooms by multi-skilled professionals
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Integrated newsroom
Full integration: transferring the off line business model to integrated business model
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ConvergenceCross mediaConvergenceCross media
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Cases I: Spain
Vocento & Prensa Ibérica– print, radio, television and online
– multimedia newsrooms
– cross promotion
– online breaking news
– exclusive online content
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2. Rethinking integration
• Revenues
• Costs
• Organization
• Staff qualifications
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Off line revenue
Online usage
time
Cut costsRaise pricesUnbundle
Cut costsRaise pricesUnbundle
Raising CPMNon-ad revenuesOnline payment modelsRegistrationSubscription (eReaders)
Raising CPMNon-ad revenuesOnline payment modelsRegistrationSubscription (eReaders)
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Cases II
Denmark: DR– 2006: “all media under one roof”– “the myth of cost reduction synergy”– UGC requires design and motivation– Organizational resistance
Netherlands: NOS– 2006: integration all radio, TV & web news– Slower decision making, more coordination– TV dominates– Higher workload, less quality
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Staff qualifications
User-generated contentCommentsBlogsRSSTwitterVideoSlideshowsMapsCommunities
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OrganizationOrganization
Business modelBusiness model
JournalismJournalism
24/7 deadlinesCoordinationHierarchyTechnical issuesSales & marketing
24/7 deadlinesCoordinationHierarchyTechnical issuesSales & marketing
Deadlines‘ownership’Quality CompetitionUGCEthics Qualifications
Deadlines‘ownership’Quality CompetitionUGCEthics Qualifications
Low ratesFree accessModerationVisitors
Low ratesFree accessModerationVisitors
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Off line
Online Both
Multi-media users?
3. The audience
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Online / off line (April 2008 - March 2009)
Off line (daily) readers
Online (monthly) visitors
20 Minutos 2.700.000 810.000
Marca 2.700.000 2.700.000
El Paìs 2.200.000 2.400.000
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Different online/off line experience
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4. Alternative approaches
• Online only• Separate / stand alone models• Lowering average costs• Rethinking all online / online first strategies• Legal issues: attribution & plagiarism• Partnerships, outsourcing• Non-digital expansion
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Divergence
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Cases III
The Netherlands– de Volkskrant: high integration– Het Parool: lower integration
Austria– Österreich: divergence, online first teasers, low
multi-skilling– Der Standard: autonomous units, no integration, off
line first, internal billing
Schibsted: 20 Minutos (Spain) / Minutes (France)– Separate business units since 2008
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