Audience Development
Courses
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Start building your audience
Understand and grow your audience with analytics, surveys, and tools.
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Increase site traffic
Use Search, newsletters, social sharing, and ads to attract more visits.
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Keep visitors engaged
Engage and retain visitors by using article recirculation, videos, and Core Web Vitals.
Sign up for Workshops
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Understanding your Audience
An overview of best practices to make your readers both come back to your site and stay longer. In this module, we will introduce you to News Consumer Insights and how you can use it to get actionable and custom recommendations to improve your audience strategy.
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Growing Reach and Deepening Engagement
Learn to turn your data into actionable recommendations. In this workshop we will go deeper into practical tips you can apply to get more visits (e.g. through newsletters, push notifications and optimized discoverability) as well as longer visits (through an improved recirculation strategy and a faster site).
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Building an Audience-Centric Culture (3 of 3)
In this module we’ll discuss ways in which you can build your organization’s culture to be more audience-centric by looking into your organization structure and workflows, even within a small news organization with limited resources.
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Canada Workshop Series
Canadian news organizations are invited to register for our free 10-part business workshop series created for and with Canadian publishers, starting January 2022, in English and French.
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Google News Initiative: Introduction to Core Web Vitals
Join Nicole Rocchio from the News Consumer Insights team and Chris Lamont, our resident Web Ecosystems expert as they demystify Core Web Vitals. Learn about the 3 components of Core Web Vitals, how they relate to Search and enjoy a front row seat as Chris walks through available tools you can use to measure and ensure that your site passes the Core Web Vitals test.
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Growing your readership
Analyse changing consumer behaviours, discover ways to grow your readership online and develop a loyal digital community. The session will cover: - The world is changing and so is your reader. What do your customers want?Ways to maintain loyal readers as reader behaviour changes over time. - Suggestions on how to become more relevant to you readers. - How to create a user journey map to help understand who your future readers are and what you could offer them
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Crafting Digital Newsletters
Discover the role of a newsletter in digital publication, learn how to set-up your own and encourage readers to sign-up to quality content. The session will cover: How newsletters can be an important tool for growth and retention. Tips on how to produce a more engaging newsletter by following the 'Newsletter Checklist'. Some of the set up requirements for producing a newsletter.
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Data Driven Content
Measure the engagement of content, connect your insights to performance-based business results and keep up to date with trends. The session will cover: The demand for data driven content and how this can help improve engagement. How your own data could help change your reader’s experience based on their preferences. How to access the Google Analytics insight tools.
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News Consumer Insights & Realtime Consumer Insights
Understand your analytics with a suite of tools to gain more insights into your content’s performance. The session will cover: How to use an action-led approach to data analysis with the News Consumer Insights tool. Using real time content insights to see what content is performing well. How to use the news tagging guide to help optimise your analytics approach.
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Understanding your Audience (1 of 3)
An overview of best practices to make your readers both come back to your site and stay longer. In this module, we will introduce you to News Consumer Insights and how you can use it to get actionable and custom recommendations to improve your audience strategy.
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Expert Panel: Real examples and best practices on building effective and sustainable digital advertising businesses
Learn what news organizations in North America have done to monetize their web content and grow digital advertising revenue. In this panel, you’ll hear about practical examples and discuss your questions with the panelists.
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Expert Panel: How to grow your audience and keep them engaged
Learn what news organizations in North America have done to grow, engage and retain their audiences, even with minimal resources. Through this panel, you’ll hear about practical examples and discuss your questions with the panelists.
Playbooks
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Google News Initiative News Consumer Insights Playbook
Grow your audience and improve loyalty with best practices and lessons from publishers worldwide.
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Understanding your Audience
A summary of resources developed by the Google News Initiative to help news organizations analyze and grow their online audiences. We guide through steps to better understand audience behavior, increase the size and engagement of your audience, and become more skilled with data analytics tools.
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News Tagging Guide (NTG)
News Tagging Guide is a free tool that helps you make the most of Google Analytics by capturing better data.
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Growing Reach and Deepening Engagement
An overview of resources and tactics from the Google News Initiative to help news organizations grow their online audience size and increase the time your audience spends with your news coverage.
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Building an Audience-Centric Culture
An overview of resources and tactics from the Google News Initiative to help news organizations develop an "audience-centric culture" and organize your news coverage around the needs of your community.
Interactive Exercises
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Realtime Content Insights
Identify in real time the most popular articles, videos, and trending regional topics.
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News Consumer Insights
Identify reader funnel optimizations to grow profitability and build deeper reader relationships.
Labs
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North America - Audience DevelopmentPartners:Participants:
Round 1: Bethesda Beat, Bridge Michigan, CalMatters, Center for Investigative Reporting, Center for Public Integrity, Crosscut, Daily Memphian, DCist, Denverite, MinnPost, Mississippi Today, Next Avenue, Rivard Report, The Capital Times, #ThisIsTucson
Round 2: Le Soleil, The Current GA, The Journal Gazette, Univision Sacramento and WBUR, The Discourse, Cold Tea Collective, National Catholic Reporter, Retro Report and The Trace.
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Latin America - Audience DevelopmentPartners:Participants:
Round 1: CNN Brasil, Estadão, Grupo Abril, Pagina 12, Publimetro, Reforma, RPP Noticias, UOL
Round 2: Aos Fatos, Diário do Rio de Janeiro, Diario El Comercio, Diario Libre, Editora O Dia, El Colombiano, Jota, La Hora, La Nación, La Opinión, La Tercera, La Voz, O Liberal, O Tempo and Sistema Costa Norte de Comunicação.
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Table Stakes Europe - Audience DevelopmentPartners:
WAN-IFRA (Europe)
Participants:Round 1: DC Thomson Media (United Kingdom), Diari Ara (Spain), Diário de Notícias (Lisbon, Portugal), Edinet (Italy), EDN - Empresa do Diário de Notícias (Madeira, Portugal), Heidenheimer Zeitung (Germany), Henneo Media (Spain), Lensing Media (Germany), Medienhaus Aachen (Germany), NOZ Medien (Germany), Le Parisien (France), Le Télégramme (France), Le Quotidien Jurassien (Suisse) and Südkurier (Germany)
Round 2: Editions de l’Avenir, La Voix du Nord, Le Point, Les Echos, Sud Ouest, Tiroler Tageszeitung, Irish Examiner Limited, DuMont Rheinland, General-Anzeiger Bonn, Neue Pressegesellschaft, Nordkurier Mediengruppe,Nordwest-Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (NWZ), NOZ, Saarbrücker Zeitung / Trierischer, Volksfreund, Schwäbisch Media, Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen, Mediotejo, SME.sk (Petit Press, a.s.), Diario de Navarra, Grupo Godó de Comunicación, Grupo SERRA, Vocento, 24 heures, Baylis Media Ltd
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Asia Pacific - Audience DevelopmentPartners:
Echos, Splice
Participants:Australian Community Media, India Today, Frontier Myanmar, Malaysiakini, Mamamia, Metro TV, READr, TurkBox
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