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Editors note: We are republishing an article by Monojoy Bhattacharjee that looks into AOP’s survey about challenges for the UK publishers. This piece was originally published on What’s New in Publishing.
AOP’s latest survey, ‘Digital Publishing: Outlook and Priorities for 2023’, investigates the sentiment of the UK digital publishing industry and how businesses are adapting to current and future challenges.
What it reveals is a surprising level of confidence, an unsurprising move away from open programmatic, and a dedication to progress beyond profit.
Averaged across all publishers, subscriptions are seen as offering the most potential, with 17% of all publishers selecting this option. However, the responses show that B2B publishers now see the most opportunity for growth in lead generation, sponsorship, and events.
Focusing on advertising revenues, there’s a noticeable shift that publishers expect to see in the next three years – 44% of all publishers expect to see growth in revenues from private marketplaces and 42% expect to see growth in non-programmatic revenues.
Revenue growth is dependent on audience growth, so it’s important to understand where publishers are investing off-platform to drive content discovery. Unsurprisingly, B2B publishers are dependent on LinkedIn, with 44% investing there to promote content. Consumer publishers are investing across multiple off-platforms to drive content discovery.
When asked what actions publishers are taking to prepare for the deprecation of cookies, 23% of publishers said that they were focused on improving the engagement funnel to build better first-party data – the most frequently cited area of focus.
This is the second year that the AOP has surveyed the digital publishing industry – inviting publishers and solutions providers to share their organisational priorities and expectations for the future. Responses to the survey were gathered from both members and non-members, providing a broad snapshot of the important areas of focus for B2B and consumer publishers in the UK.
Download the full AOP report here:
Digital Publishing: Outlook and Priorities for 2023
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