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Audience Engagement

Accelerate: Local News

Sandra Clark on Audience Engagement in Local News

  • Sandra Clark

From the 2019 Accelerate: Local News Summit in Denver, Colorado, WHYY’s Sandra Clark presents on Local News Audience Engagement

ONA18

Alerts, Apps and Algorithms: Loyalty in a Mobile-First World

  • Coleen OLear
  • Emily Ingram
  • Nathalie Malinarich
  • Mark Alford
  • Moderated by Emily Bell

The best audiences are those that are engaged across multiple platforms. In what is rapidly becoming a mobile-first world, news aggregators, push alerts and various algorithms are ...

ONA18

Beyond Audiograms: Audience Engagement in Podcasting

  • Alex Laughlin
  • Brianne O'Brien
  • Ashley Alvarado
  • Byard Duncan

Audience communities are as unique as the audio products they are built around, and engagement strategies can and should reflect that diversity. From social metrics to SMS chat...

ONA18

Beyond Facebook: How to Survive and Thrive After Newsfeed Changes

  • Meena Thiruvengadam
  • Sari Zeidler
  • Bobby Blanchard
  • Moderated by John Levitt

When you rely on Google and Facebook for traffic, you are at serious risk when the algorithm changes, especially when it suddenly moves to deprioritize news. Newsrooms can hedge...

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Deep Dive into Audience Engagement: New Tools, Personalization, Audio, and More

  • Moderated by Penny Riordan

There are so many types of tech tools and strategies out there that can help publishers and content creators build a greater and more loyal audience. You can choose to develop...

ONA18

Email as a Driver of Innovation and Loyalty (Yes, Email)

  • Eva Scazzero
  • Dheerja Kaur
  • Roy Schwartz

Believe it or not, emails can and should be great products that anchor and engender reader loyalty. By setting high expectations and productively managing engagement...

ONA18

Global State of Reader Engagement

  • Josh Schwartz

Chartbeat’s Data Science Chief, Josh Schwartz, offers new research into rich, global, aggregate data speaking to year-on-year trends as they relate to platforms, devices,...

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How CrowdTangle Is Transforming Local Newsrooms

  • Brandon Silverman

CrowdTangle is helping publishers redefine their digital strategy and bring innovation into the newsroom. In this session, CrowdTangle Co-Founder and CEO Brandon Silverman will...

ONA18

How Facebook is Going for Local News

  • Sarah Whitmire
  • Anthony Quintano
  • Cal Lundmark
  • Kurt Gessler

In early 2018, Facebook made a series of large-scale changes to its Newsfeed and to the system used to track these changes, sending shockwaves through the news industry. By...