Channel - Financial Times | paidContent:UK

Interview: Rob Grimshaw, MD, FT.com: New Niches, Pinker Pages, No More Subscribers - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jun 2008 11:13 AM PST

FT.com has attracted 450,000 registered users since unveiling its new, 30-free-articles model in October - but the number of paying subscribers has remained largely “static” at “about 100,000”. During a…

Print Bits: FT Ignites Europe, Johnston Not Selling - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jun 2008 03:58 AM PST

-- Ignite: Money-Media, the online news source for the money management industry which FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) acquired in January, has launched a European version of its Ignites fund…

Industry Moves: FT.com Helm Taken By Grimshaw - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 21 May 2008 03:27 AM PST

FT.com is promoting online advertising director Rob Grimshaw to managing director, effectively replacing outgoing managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng. Grimshaw had been involved in developing the new, third-way access…

Industry Moves: FT.com ME And Publisher Ien Cheng Quits To Join Google - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 02 May 2008 06:18 AM PST

FT.com managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng, the Financial Times’ most senior digital executive, is quitting the company to take up the post of director of product management for advertising…

FT Sells Stake In Business Standard in India; To Launch Financial Daily With Network 18 - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 20 Apr 2008 01:11 PM PST

Like we predicted on ContentSutra, India’s media firm Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times, and the new title is expected to…

Industry Moves: FT Promotes CIO Jetha To COO - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:45 AM PST

Financial Times is promoting chief information officer Yasmin Jetha to chief operating officer. It’s not the only sign of an increasing technology influence at the highest level - Jetha is…

FT.com To Give Facebook Students Free Four-Year Subs - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 05 Mar 2008 08:36 AM PST

FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free subscriptions to college students via Facebook, we can reveal. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN code which can…

Earnings: FT.com Subs Up 13 Percent, Ad Outlook Uncertain - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Mar 2008 02:08 AM PST

FT added 13 percent more digital subscribers in 2007, taking it up to 101,000. In the year it remodeled its subs strategy to let out more free stories but keep…

FT Launching Premium Online Exec Forums; Includes FT.com Subs and Conferences - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 25 Feb 2008 05:13 AM PST

Certainly among the costliest social networking services to launch till date: The Financial Times is launching a £1,700-a-year (about $3,350) membership for one of three new networking sites...the service, called…

FT Sells Off Rest Of German Edition To Focus On Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 30 Jan 2008 04:39 AM PST

Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has confirmed the sale of its 50 percent stake in FT Deutschland to Hamburg-based magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, which already owned the other half. The deal…

FT.com Claims Big Traffic Growth On Access Model Change - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 Jan 2008 01:33 AM PST

The number of people registering with FT.com ”went from 200 to 400 a week up to between 15,000 and 17,000 a week” since introducing a new access model in November,…

Newsprint Bits: Confident FT Hikes Price, Newsquest Takes PA Multimedia, IHT/Reuters Launch - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jan 2008 04:51 AM PST

- Newsquest: The UK’s number-two regional news publisher is buying in national news video from the Press Association multimedia wire. The PA will contribute around 25 multimedia packages each week…

Pearson Acquires Money-Media; Targets Money Management Industry - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 03 Jan 2008 09:04 AM PST

FT publisher Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has acquired Money-Media, an online news source for the money management industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although the announcement states that NYC-based…

FT.com Seeks Subs By Asking Factiva Users To Buy New Licence - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 19 Dec 2007 02:51 AM PST

FT.com may have decided to drop part of its web pay wall in October - but it’s now erecting a new one right through the Factiva aggregator. While Factiva customers…

FT Has Big Hopes With Mergermarket In Competition With WSJ - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Dec 2007 08:00 PM PST

The Financial Times needs all the luck and gumption it can get, to compete with Wall Street Journal under News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) A Telegraph story lays out the odds,…

Reuters To Supply FT.com With News Video - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 12 Dec 2007 05:14 PM PST

Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) will follow up its partnership to produce a branded online/print business news section for the International Herald Tribune (NYSE: TRB) with a contract to supply FT.com with…

Industry Moves: FT.com Taps Reuters Editor For New Video Head Post; EMI Adds To Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 12 Nov 2007 07:56 AM PST

- FT.com: Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Video editor Richard Edgar is leaving to become FT.com’s first ever head of video. He will be responsible for building out the paper’s online video…

Industry Moves: Ex-FT.com Director Moves To Hotels.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 30 Oct 2007 12:58 PM PST

The Financial Times’ former director of online publishing, Nigel Pocklington, is leaving to become Hotels.com’s MD for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Pocklington had moved to a board strategy…

FT.com Ringfences Free Stories For Link Followers, Aiming To Drive Subs - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 24 Oct 2007 01:25 AM PST

As FT.com embarks on a new business model by partially dropping its pay wall, it’s also partnered with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and 30 other sites including Yahoo, (NSDQ: YHOO) MSNBC…

FT Ad Revenues Rise, Providing Platform For New Model - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 22 Oct 2007 06:27 AM PST

As the Financial Times moves further toward an advertising-supported online publishing model, there’s some further context today on the reason for that switch. Advertising revenue across the print edition and…

@ AOP: Mobile Publishers Disagree, Find Different Fortunes On Open Web - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 03 Oct 2007 07:52 AM PST

- FT.com: FT.com is now getting 97 percent of its mobile traffic from off-portal sources, having almost entirely ditched relationships with network operators. “We’ve gone thoroughly commando,” FT’s mobile business…

Interview: Ien Cheng, FT.com Publisher: A Pay Wall ‘Third Way’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 01 Oct 2007 03:14 AM PST

FT.com has announced it will partially drop its £99 ($110) pay wall in favour of a free, ad-supported model for users who read up to 30 stories a month (see…

FT.com Drops Pay Wall For Casual Readers; Subs Remain For Others - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Sun 30 Sep 2007 04:15 PM PST

Change is coming in FT.com’s business model. The site will on Monday announce it will allow consumers to read articles or data up to 30 times a month for free,…

Pearson Looks To Sell Half Of FT German Edition; Refocusing On English Assets? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 11 Sep 2007 07:42 AM PST

German magazine group Spiegel, which publishes the Der Spiegel business magazine, is talking with publisher Pearson about buying out its 50 percent stake in the Financial Times’ German edition. Founded…

Pearson Faces Mighty NWS-DJ, Reuters-Thomson Challenge, Analysts Reckon - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 22 Aug 2007 11:25 AM PST

What a difference a takeover makes. Analysts revised their verdict on Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE:PSO) today, with the company likely to face tough competition from the combination of both…