Dan Eldridge
Dan Eldridge is a journalist and guidebook author based in Philadelphia's historic Old City district, where he and his partner own and operate Kaya Aerial Yoga, the city's only aerial yoga studio. A longtime cultural reporter, Eldridge also writes about small business and entrepreneurship, travel, and the publishing industry. Follow him on Twitter at @YoungPioneers.
Disruption Needs to be Part of Day-to-Day Processes of Publishers
If disruption is really the “new normal” in the media business, then it stands to reason that publishers should no longer by surprised by it. It should be mundane enough [...]
How TheStreet.com Used Data Modeling to Boost Renewal Rates and Price
In the relatively world of online publications featuring financial news and analysis, there certainly aren’t many that can claim to have the sort of cache and name recognition of TheStreet.com. [...]
To Launch a PWA, Forbes Had to Change Its Culture First
In the online world, and in particular mobile, the old adage “time is money” rings true. Publishers with slow, unreliable mobile sites risk high bounce rates and missed revenue opportunities. [...]
Google, Apple Leave Publishers in the Dark on Ad & Cookie Blocking Browser Updates
Today, if you wanted an ad blocker to be operational on whichever browser you most often use to surf the web, you would need to go through the somewhat arduous [...]
8 Trends & Takeaways From the FUSE Media Summit Keynote
At the inaugural FUSE Media technology summit in September 2016, publishing executives and tech providers came together to discuss ways in which technology was helping to resuscitate a publishing industry [...]
How Wine Enthusiast’s Mobile-First Site Helps Readers Discover the Perfect Wine, Wherever They Are
When the company now known as Wine Enthusiast was founded in 1979, it boasted neither a print magazine, nor media or publishing assets of any sort. Instead, it was a [...]
A Look at the Many Models for Publisher Ecommerce
We've been using the internet to tell stories for 20 years now, and for nearly as long publishers have also been using the internet to grow revenue by selling ancillary [...]
Publishers Diversify Their Businesses with Innovative Brand Extensions
As the realignment of the publishing industry continues, a new normal seems to have emerged: one in which tenacious publishers must consistently create entirely new sources of revenue and extend [...]
Beautifully Designed Eight by Eight Engages a Global Audience
Named after the dimensions of a regulation soccer goal, Eight by Eight is a lavishly produced magazine marked by its exceptionally well-executed design and illustrations. And although the growing popularity [...]
Glossy Anglers Journal Proves the Power of Niche
Anglers Journal chronicles the saltwater fishing lifestyle. But with its boutique-style production and its abundance of original photography -- not to mention 100-plus perfect-bound pages of literary musings by noted journalists [...]