A/B testing and optimization are key ways in which Media and Publishing companies are growing their audiences and revenue online. Read case studies and best practices of how Media companies are using optimization to drive more clicks, get more views, and increase ad viewability.
For media companies (or anyone with a digital business), getting past the reader’s (aka your) short attention span is a major challenge. By employing website optimization as a methodology, media companies have unparalleled opportunities to grow and engage their audience—and their bottom line.
Our Ultimate Guide to Website Optimization for Media Companies provides the most in-depth and thorough crash course that you’ll find.
During a recent site audit, Sony tested the symmetry of its banner ads with promotional offers it was running online for customizable Vaio notebooks. The results led to a lift not only in click-through rates, but in engagement further down the funnel with visitors customizing their laptops. Read on to find out how …
For media sites like USA Today that don’t require a paying subscription, the challenge is to find ways to make it as easy and compelling as possible to spend more time on the site because engagement (e.g. pageviews) is the key to driving higher revenue. Increased site engagement is the key to driving higher revenue through ad impressions.
There are a few key places publishers with free content, such as usatoday.com, can test to increase pageviews. Let’s dive in.
The Wall Street Journal is a well-known example of an online publisher who uses the pay-for-content approach—one of the business models publishers use today to drive revenue online. If you go to wsj.com and quickly scan the top half of the homepage, you’ll see that substantially more than half of their primary articles require a paid subscription to read (as indicated by the key symbol). Here are 25 ideas for A/B tests they can run across two pages to increase subscriptions.
Whenever possible, product managers at The Guardian make decisions about functionality and design on news pages and other web properties with A/B tests. Through a combination of A/B and user testing, PM Kerstin Exner dramatically improved paid subscription conversions for The Guardians’ online dating site, Soulmates.
While there is much discussion and data on how paywalls affect readers (e.g higher readership of free content sites like HuffPo and BuzzFeed), my concern is with the marketers at online publishers like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. How does the presence of a paywall affect a digital marketer?
Here’s how: page consumption. Paywalls can present a real barrier to pageviews—one of the most vital metrics for marketers at media sites.
It’s Wednesday at 7PM. I’m on the J-train on the way home from work checking Facebook on my phone. That conspicuous red dot pops up, notifying me that I’ve got a new message. It’s my friend Lisa. She wants to tell me that this Buzzfeed article reminded her of me. Within seconds, I’m laughing uncontrollably […]
Often times the hardest part of A/B testing is determining what to test in the first place. After having worked with thousands of customers who do A/B testing every day, one of the most common questions we still hear is, “Where do I begin?”
Conveniently, website testing inherently generates more questions than it answers. Your first test can lead to a whole litany of follow-up tests and iterations. For when you’ve exhausted all of those, or if you’re just getting started, here are 71 ideas (some more serious than others…) for testing your website.
Background Ustream is a leading live interactive broadcast platform that aims to bring people together around shared interests for live interactive experiences. The company attracts millions of users from around the globe ranging from artists to celebrities to music enthusiasts to corporate executives. Challenge and Goals As a live and interactive video streaming site Ustream is […]
Background Judy’s Book is a reviews website that caters to a family audience. After reading an article in WIRED about Optimizely, Ali Alami, GM and Acting CEO of Judy’s Book got started with the tool because it allowed his small team to maximize their resources. “At board meetings, there are many ideas on strategy and […]
