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NY Times (NYT) Grappling With Soft Advertising Demand
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Advertising remains a significant source of revenues for The New York Times Company (NYT - Free Report) , which however is dependent upon the health of the economy. We observed that the company has been struggling with dwindling advertising revenues for quite some time now. Total advertising revenue dropped 7.7% during the third quarter of 2016. Print advertising revenues fell 18.5% in the quarter under review, following a decline of 14.1% in the preceding quarter.
The U.S. newspaper publishing industry has long been grappling with sinking advertising revenues. The downturn in the newspaper publishing industry witnessed over the last few years was aggravated as print readership declined, with more readers opting for online news, thereby making the print-advertising model increasingly irrelevant.
Consequently, The New York Times Company has been contemplating on new avenues of revenue generation. The company is adapting to the changing face of the multiplatform media universe, and has already included mobile and reader application products in its portfolio. Other publishing companies such as New Media Investment Group Inc. , Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI - Free Report) and The McClatchy Company are also trying to adapt to different revenue generating ways.
The New York Times Company is concentrating on online activities, as evident from its pay-and-read model. Its pricing system for NYTimes.com was launched on Mar 28, 2011. The company notified that the number of paid digital subscribers reached 1,557,000 at the end of the third quarter – rising 129,000 sequentially (116,000 came from the digital news products and 13,000 from the Crossword product) and 30% year over year.
The company’s initiatives remain on well on track but soft adverting revenues forecast for the final quarter of 2016 raises concern among investors. Management expects total advertising revenue in the fourth quarter to decline at a rate equivalent to that of the third quarter. We observed that year to date this Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) stock has increased marginally by 0.2% compared with S&P 500 Index that surged roughly 11%.
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NY Times (NYT) Grappling With Soft Advertising Demand
Advertising remains a significant source of revenues for The New York Times Company (NYT - Free Report) , which however is dependent upon the health of the economy. We observed that the company has been struggling with dwindling advertising revenues for quite some time now. Total advertising revenue dropped 7.7% during the third quarter of 2016. Print advertising revenues fell 18.5% in the quarter under review, following a decline of 14.1% in the preceding quarter.
The U.S. newspaper publishing industry has long been grappling with sinking advertising revenues. The downturn in the newspaper publishing industry witnessed over the last few years was aggravated as print readership declined, with more readers opting for online news, thereby making the print-advertising model increasingly irrelevant.
Consequently, The New York Times Company has been contemplating on new avenues of revenue generation. The company is adapting to the changing face of the multiplatform media universe, and has already included mobile and reader application products in its portfolio. Other publishing companies such as New Media Investment Group Inc. , Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI - Free Report) and The McClatchy Company are also trying to adapt to different revenue generating ways.
The New York Times Company is concentrating on online activities, as evident from its pay-and-read model. Its pricing system for NYTimes.com was launched on Mar 28, 2011. The company notified that the number of paid digital subscribers reached 1,557,000 at the end of the third quarter – rising 129,000 sequentially (116,000 came from the digital news products and 13,000 from the Crossword product) and 30% year over year.
The company’s initiatives remain on well on track but soft adverting revenues forecast for the final quarter of 2016 raises concern among investors. Management expects total advertising revenue in the fourth quarter to decline at a rate equivalent to that of the third quarter. We observed that year to date this Zacks Rank #4 (Sell) stock has increased marginally by 0.2% compared with S&P 500 Index that surged roughly 11%.
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