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Editorial
 Are we witnessing the end of an era for premium news databases?
Product managers, designers and engineers are as clever and creative as they've ever been. Features that offer visualisation, interactive outputs, and workflow integrations continue to impress our researchers when they conduct product reviews.
But are all these developments responding to a market that simply doesn't exist in the size or strength of three years ago?
This is the question I'm asking this week during teleconference Communities of Practice sessions with FreePint Subscription customers. I'm presenting our observations:
- More organisations are making do with less or doing entirely without... and they're not regretting those decisions
- A growing number of content buyers are opting for resources that incorporate news with other types of content instead of standalone news products, with middling degrees of success
- Yet other organisations are taking a DIY approach, focusing on those resources that are most relevant to their needs and looking beyond traditional "news" to find them
...and then we'll talk about participants' needs. I'm deeply curious to know how they respond to these observations and answer questions about the unique and compelling role that premium news products play (or not) in their portfolios today.
FreePint has long opined that news is a "bellwether" category: trends that take hold in news often develop in other categories like company, industry and people information. That's one reason this year's Topic Series is "News, and Other Commodities". Across all these categories, the value is increasingly not defined by the content itself but by its packaging, or how it can be combined, manipulated or used.
Have your own opinion about premium news databases and the viability of their future? Drop me a note and let me know - robin.neidorf@freepint.com, or submit anonymously via our contact form.
Robin Neidorf
Director of Research, FreePint
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Find out what's new and upcoming in FreePint's Content, Community and Consulting as we move into the final month of our current Topic Series "News, and Other Commodities". Subscription information services are in the spotlight along with an overview of the media monitoring landscape and the results of our research into private company information.
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By Ada Kaspersma on Wednesday, 2nd December 2015
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By Eileen Steer on Tuesday, 1st December 2015
- Laying the Groundwork for Real Change in Stakeholder Attitudes
By Robin Neidorf on Monday, 30th November 2015
- How to Develop Strong Relationships between Buyers and Suppliers
By Catherine Pask on Wednesday, 25th November 2015
- Market Landscape - Media Monitoring
By Sophie Alexander on Tuesday, 24th November 2015
- Detecting Latent Sales Opportunities via Sales Triggers
By Michael Levy on Tuesday, 24th November 2015
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By Sophie Alexander on Tuesday, 24th November 2015
- UK Companies House Information - What Difference Does "Free" Make?
By Chris Porter on Monday, 23rd November 2015
- Considerations and Lessons Learnt from Developing a Virtual Information Centre
By Mandy Smith on Monday, 23rd November 2015
- Avention, OneSource, iSell - What's New, or What's Familiar?
By Chris Porter on Friday, 20th November 2015
- Developing a Global Virtual Information Centre in the Subsea Sector
By Mandy Smith on Thursday, 19th November 2015
- Information Buyers and Sellers Striving for Mutual Understanding
By Catherine Dhanjal on Wednesday, 18th November 2015
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