Ooyala - the 'next YouTube' hope on which Telstra burned half a billion dollars - has been sold to Brightcove for an undisclosed sum.

It's been the big, round Kayo subscriber stats and the ongoing threat of digital giants grabbing attention when Robert Thomson presented News Corp's quarter earnings.

Moves around the former Fairfax Media circle a common theme: The rise of native content over traditional newsmedia. And the rise of the segment's brightest stars.

Su-Lin Tan is leaving Singapore Press Holdings after almost 22 years with the publisher.

The two managing directors of ppi Media, Hauke Berndt and Manuel Scheyda have led a management buyout of the German newsmedia systems developer.

UK headquartered newspaper systems developer Miles 33 goes into 2019 with new financial backers to support its plans for geographic and market expansion.

News Corp has rounded up ten of its retail and corporate clients for a Townsville 'flood relief' wrap, saying it will share a quarter of takings with victims.

Is Seven West a serious bidder for the former Fairfax Australian Community Media division - or is it being mentioned only to drum up interest in the sale as TV rival Nine looks to divest bits in which it has no interest?

Two former media owners from historic publishing families are backing a new venture which aims to fill a void created by the acquisition of Fairfax Media by Nine.

Community Impact Newspaper's march into the US country music capital of Nashville has accelerated with the acquisition of recent start-up Rover.

With potential bidders being lined up in what might be only a three-horse race, there's more to Nine's divestment of the former Fairfax Australian Community Media than who buys the mastheads.

Gurugram in Delhi - also known as Gurgaon - is to be the venue for this year's WAN-Ifra India conference in September.

In case you missed it, this is the opening video from last week's WAN-Ifra Digital Media Asia event.

As the football World Cup progresses, fans and tecchies alike have been able to savour mind-blowing visual effects and the imaginative use global broadcasters have made of them.

The eccentricities of billionaire media moguls are something the industry needs to get used to, but it's taking time to come to terms with Jack Ma's performance aspirations.

An audience delivered via YouTube now supports the blue water dreams of a few with the imagination to exploit it.

With the rapid advances in technology, people can tune into their favourite OTT platforms anytime and anywhere, but how do you meet demand for such content.

More than three decades since it was founded, and almost that since the birth of its best-known child, Adobe continues to amaze.

Bilingual and multiplatform, the Content-X system at The Printers Mysore in Bangalore has been implemented in just six months.

The VRM group, which is headquartered in Mainz, reaches more than one million readers and has a circulation of more than 320,000 copies.

As Nine looks to sell the former Fairfax Australian Community Media mastheads it acquired last year, rival News is stepping up competition in an area where the two are toe-to-toe.

If the previous year's spend on advertising over the same-sex marriage debate was the good news then, it was inevitable that Australian publishers should face a drop in 2018.

Addressable advertising will play a bigger role in Nine's advertising offering, with targeted digital video heading a range of advertising products.

Those who tell you print is in its death throes - and there are a few of them, especially in Australia - had time to reconsider over their seaside holidays (writes Peter Coleman).

With Australian cricket on both Seven's free-to-air TV and News Corp's dedicated Foxtel pay-TV channel, News has a point to make about anti-siphoning controls.

A new INMA report looks at the way publishers are re-thinking how they communicate core value propositions to ensure long-term relationships.

Ooyala - the 'next YouTube' hope on which Telstra burned half a billion dollars - has been sold to Brightcove for an undisclosed sum.

It's been the big, round Kayo subscriber stats and the ongoing threat of digital giants grabbing attention when Robert Thomson presented News Corp's quarter earnings.

Moves around the former Fairfax Media circle a common theme: The rise of native content over traditional newsmedia. And the rise of the segment's brightest stars.

Su-Lin Tan is leaving Singapore Press Holdings after almost 22 years with the publisher.

The two managing directors of ppi Media, Hauke Berndt and Manuel Scheyda have led a management buyout of the German newsmedia systems developer.

UK headquartered newspaper systems developer Miles 33 goes into 2019 with new financial backers to support its plans for geographic and market expansion.

A new Smart Pre-setting feature from QIPC-EAE is delivering on a promise to save an extra 150-200 copies with each press start-up.

A new star launched into the web-offset printing firmament last month with the global launch of the Wisprint brand.

As a leading member of WAN-Ifra's INCQC Star Club and a "truly satisfied" user of its first Commander press, the Aschendorff Group is the perfect customer.

Times of India technical director Snehasis Roy (pictured) is among speakers announced for the Print Business Outlook Conference which takes place with Print Pack India on February 2.

It's an 'in' joke at Germany's Weiss Druck that their Colorman e:line press - the first to be installed - was known as the Gipfelstürmer or "summit climber". Another translation is "ambitious person".

A new 'smart presetting' feature from QIPC-EAE is delivering on a promise to save an extra 150-200 copies with each press start-up.

New ABB consoles are being commissioned in February on four KBA Commander presses at Straits Times publisher Singapore Press Holdings in Jurong as part of a programme covering all 16 presses.

Colour register control is winning growing recognition in India with orders for Dutch specialist QI Press Controls from printer Pudhari Publications and press maker Sigmarq.

Koenig & Bauer's RotaJet digital press has been named a 'winner' in this year's German Design Awards.

A new zero speed splicer combined with a splicer unwinder is among new offerings for inkjet printers being released by peripheral maker Tecnau.

Viability of the digital newspaper printing proposition varies from geographic market to market, but if you want to check out the latest ideas, Lucerne in February is the place to be.

The introduction of an NIR dryer for Screen's 520HD inkjet web will deliver higher print speeds on coated litho stocks and expand lightweight paper capabilities, the company says.

The RotaJet inkjet web press has been named one of the seven best-designed products in this year's iF Design awards.

Screen's Truepress Jet520HD inkjet web press has been honoured with an award by Japan's Society of Printing Science and Technology, following up on the InterTech award it won last year

Incoming chief executive of Contiweb Rutger Jansen has one piece of advice for heatset web printers: Get into offset packaging.

Clients and the industry got a glimpse of Ive Group's $50 million Franklin Web NSW heatset plant this week, one of the largest investments in the Australian industry for some years.

The newly-merged manroland Goss web systems has sold a German-designed Lithoman heatset press to a US printer.

manroland has signed an order for three web presses to Ethiopian printer TBO Printing & Publishing.

A comprehensively-equipped Goss M600 is being installed at French print house Imprimerie Guillaume in Comines.

The 'see-saw' effect of Australia's crowded and limited heatset printing market has seen Ive Group report a 73 per cent increase in revenue, while rival PMP has delivered warned-of lower profits.

They have been firing up the pots on three hot-metal linecasters at the Penrith Museum of Printing again following a major renovation and extension.

Sydney print recruitment consultant James Cryer tells the intimate story of a printing industry in the midst of dramatic change, as related in in the personal diary of his grandfather.

A meeting of Sydney Pressgang at Penrith Museum of Printing in September will be an opportunity for those interested to see the newly-renovated museum 'in action'.

The name of inkmaker and typefounder Frederick Wimble is writ large on Good Friday week when an inaugural lecture and the return of a traditional wayzgoose brings print fans to Armidale, NSW.

A heartening tale about the value of tangible print history comes with the US$10 million valuation of a collection of old letterpress printing blocks.

With a stay of execution on its present location, there are hopes for a new future for two Cossar presses in Pahiatua, New Zealand, with the formation of an action committee to make plans and raise funds.