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Thomas Baekdal's media analysis on journalism, publishing, audience behavior, subscriptions, marketing, and digital platforms.

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How the public has changed the baseline requirement for news #Media #Journalism #Audience
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Sep 29, 2026
Publishers need to focus on audiences that pick them specifically #Publishing #Audience #Media
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Sep 27, 2026
Publishers need to change how they promote their publications #Publishing #Marketing #Media
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Sep 21, 2026
Publishers are spending wrongly on marketing #Marketing #Publishing #Media
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Sep 17, 2026
YouTube launches even more fake metrics #Media #Digital #Analysis
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Sep 11, 2026
Are young people ahead of old people when it comes to news? #News #Media #Generational
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Sep 7, 2026
YouTube makes their platform worse for independent journalists #Journalism #Media #Platform
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Aug 25, 2026
A newsroom guide: There is no such thing as an illegal immigrant #Journalism #Media #Immigration
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Aug 11, 2026
Even the best climate reporting is still 10 years out of date #Climate #Media #Journalism
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Aug 7, 2026
Do public service channels crowd out the subscription market? #Media #Business #Analysis
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Jul 30, 2026
What external factors impact subscription propensity? #Media #Business #Marketing
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Jul 29, 2026
Matching audience needs to subscription potential #Audience #Subscriptions #Marketing
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Jul 22, 2026
Paid-for strategies: Defining what people pay for (2026 edition) #Media #Business #Strategy
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Jul 21, 2026
How many people actually subscribe to the news? #Media #Journalism #Subscriptions
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Jul 9, 2026
The problem with the 0% study from Danske Medier #MediaAnalysis #Journalism #DigitalPlatforms
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Jul 6, 2026
What is up with direct traffic in 2026? #Analytics #Marketing #Digital
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Jun 25, 2026
A deeper look at the macro trends from the Digital News Report 2026 #MediaAnalysis #DigitalTrends #Journalism
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Jun 23, 2026
Moving a publisher's tech stack to Europe is hard. The challenge of independent publishers #Publishing #Tech #Europe
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Jun 11, 2026
Why would you produce low quality news today? #Journalism #Media #News
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Jun 5, 2026
How publishers can build responsible and auditable AI assisted analysis #AI #Publishing #Media
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Jun 4, 2026
The end of the Wayback Machine, and what did live streams look like 100 years ago? #History #Media #Technology
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May 25, 2026
What did newspaper livestreams look like 100 years ago? #Media #History #Journalism
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May 20, 2026
Does trust, interest, and news avoidance impact subscription? And is our crime reporting wrong? #Journalism #Media #Audience
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May 17, 2026
What is the difference between the UK, Nordic and Dutch willingness to pay? #Media #Audience #Publishing
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May 14, 2026
Publishers are replacing the wrong jobs with AI #AI #Publishing #Media
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May 11, 2026
We no longer talk about 'from print to digital' #Media #Digital #Publishing
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May 7, 2026
Young people are not leaving news, they are leaving us #Media #Audience #Journalism
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Apr 24, 2026
An AI compensation model that actually works for publishers #AI #Publishing #BusinessModels
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Apr 21, 2026
What's going on with Le Monde's AI partnership? #AI #Media #Journalism
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Apr 15, 2026
What is the future of analytics for publishers? #Analytics #Publishing #DigitalMedia
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Apr 14, 2026
Why 'Pay-to-crawl' is not useful for publishers #Publishing #DigitalMedia #Marketing
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Apr 2, 2026
Let's calculate how much money AI companies need to pay publishers #AI #Publishing #Business
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Mar 26, 2026
Calculating how much AI companies need to pay publishers? #AI #Publishing #Media
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Mar 23, 2026
My view, as a media analyst, about using AI #AI #Media #Analysis
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Mar 19, 2026
Cloudflare just betrayed every single publisher #Publishing #DigitalMedia #TechNews
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Mar 14, 2026
Does giving your news away for free to young people pay off? #Journalism #Audience #BusinessModel
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Mar 13, 2026
How good can we make AI translations? Can we make it production quality? #AI #Translation #Tech
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Mar 10, 2026
How churn impacts your article relevance over time #Audience #Marketing #Publishing
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Mar 6, 2026
Publishers potential in the future and the problem with political news #Publishing #Media #News
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Mar 1, 2026
Can we fix the political news problem? #MediaAnalysis #Journalism #Politics
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Feb 24, 2026