• Apple to launch magazine subscription service

If reports originating from Bloomberg are true, Apple is making a renewed foray into the world of publishing with the launch of a news and magazine subscription service.

• Facebook struggles to promote ‘meaningful interactions’ for local publishers, data shows

INTERACTIONS ON SOME LOCAL PUBLISHERS’ Facebook posts are down by as much as 56 percent compared to the two years prior, despite an algorithm change that Mark Zuckerberg says was deliberately designed to promote news from local sources on the platform.

• National Geographic Unveils Redesigned Print Edition

Maintaining a 130-year-old publication’s place among the world’s most relevant and widely read print magazines means getting a lot of things right

• Instagram Stories have become traffic drivers for publishers and influencers

Facebook’s algorithm change earlier this year highlighted that the audiences that publishers and influencers cultivated in these walled-garden platforms are not their own.

• Google brings ‘Funding Choices’ ad messaging to more countries & adds subscription offer

Launched last June, Google’s ‘Funding Choices’ platform was designed to help publishers recover lost revenue from ad blockers.

• The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them.

My team believes that by investing in the subscribers we have and making the subscription experience better and better, we’ll be able to help all parts of the subscription business.