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December 9, 2015 Henry Blodget, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Julie Hansen, President & COO SMART STORYTELLING FOR THE DIGITAL GENERATION 2
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A global digital news organization that delivers high-impact, smart business stories with a focus on key verticals: tech, finance, markets, geopolitical affairs, and management strategy — for a new generation of leaders. NO. 1 US BUSINESS SITE 4
38MM US Uniques: Desktop and Mobile 50 BusinessInsider
45 AOLMoney&Finance BloombergͲNetwork 40 CNBC.com
35 CNNMoney.com Economist.com
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Source: comScore Multiplatform Report, October 2015. Excluding Yahoo! Finance NO. 1 IN UK ALSO 5
4MM UK Uniques: Desktop and Mobile 5 Business Insider
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Source: comScore Key Measures, UK edition, October 2015. TREMENDOUS VIDEO GROWTH 6
486MM monthly views across all platforms Monthly Video Views
Source: Ooyala, Facebook, YouTube, MSN, Yahoo CONTENT OPTIMIZED FOR SOCIAL 7
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Source: NewsWhip (June 2015); Reflects sum total of likes, comments, shares, Retweets, replies, and favorites LARGEST US BUSINESS NEWS SITE 8
#1 38MM Largest US business 1 US Uniques news site1
55% 40% Mobile + Tablet Traffic1 Sessions from social2
Sources: 1comScore Media Metrix (October ); 2Google Analytics (October 2015) LAUNCHED IN 2015 9
Created for the digital generation, Tech Insider tell stories through the lens of technology, science, and digital culture, exploring the innovations that are changing the world. TECH INSIDER’S AUDIENCE 10
Typical Tech/Science Publication Target:
• Techies
• Scientists
• Small vertical communities
Tech Insider’s Target:
• Digital generation
• Smart people fascinated by the world around them
• Consumers who care about how technology, science, and innovation are changing our world 11
5MM+ 190M+ global uniques1 monthly video streams*
67% 65% 1MM+ Mobile/tablet1 Users from social1 Facebook Fans
Sources: 1comScore Multiplatform (October 2015); *includes on-site and off-site streams (e.g. Facebook, YouTube, etc.) REACHING MILLENNIALS 12
DIGITAL AUDIENCE COMPOSITION:
12% 19% 19% 20% 26% 29% P50+ 16% 22% 23% 25% 28% P35-49 28%
71% P18-34 58% 56% 51% 45% 41%
Index 238 194 186 172 149 136 P18-34 LAUNCHING IN 2016 13
Amazing stories about what you actually want to know, delivered to you where you already are, when you want it, in ways that take full advantage of the digital medium. 14
Introduced on social September 2015
135MM+ 500K+ monthly video Facebook Fans streams1
1Source: Ooyala, Facebook, YouTube, MSN, Yahoo DISTRIBUTED PUBLISHING 15
BI content is distributed on all major social platforms including: • Apple News • Facebook Instant Articles • Flipboard • LinkedIn • Instagram • Tumblr BI FILMS 16
Upcoming:
Web Series Documentaries Shorts IKARIA: Secrets Of Long Lives Lived Well BI Films extends Business Insider's massively popular original short-form video content into the realm of web series, shorts, and feature-length documentaries.
LEAGUE OF MILLIONS: Inside The Gaming Phenomenon BI INTELLIGENCE 17
Research For The Digital Age Mobile — Payments — Digital Media — E-Commerce — IoT
BI Intelligence is a premium research, offering subscribers business intelligence for the digital age.
We provide actionable insights that enable smarter and better informed decision making. BI INTELLIGENCE 18
Growing through B2B and B2C subscriptions
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December 8-9, 2015 Time Warner Center, NYC
IGNITION: Future Of Digital
IGNITION brings together the brightest minds in media and technology to share what they see on the horizon. Through unscripted interviews, cutting-edge demos, and insights from industry pioneers, attendees learn about the key trends to be aware of and what they need to do to stay ahead of the digital game. KEYS TO OUR SUCCESS 20
We started with a simple theory…
• New medium
• New “native” storytelling and distribution
• Focused 100% on digital
• Didn’t try to mimic print or TV
• Fast, informative, smart, social DIGITAL JOURNALISM 21
180 digital journalists in New York, San Francisco, London, remote posts
Proprietary content management system, “Viking”
Relentless innovation in formats and digital story-telling techniques
Embracing social and mobile FUTURE PLANS 22
Subscriptions
International SUBSCRIPTIONS 23
In addition to ambitious growth plans for Business Insider Intelligence, we plan to test a consumer subscription in 2016.
Details are still being worked out.
We believe subscriptions will be a good option for ad-blockers. AD-BLOCKING 24
Ad-blocking remains steady at nuisance but not crisis level.
We have not seen an increase from mobile ad-blocking apps in Safari.
We are monitoring it closely and will evaluate “ad recovery” and other steps to thwart ad-blocking, including the Bild ad-blocking project.
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Business Insider editions: 2 O&O 7 active licenses + 1 rep agreement 3 licenses not yet launched 6 new territories in active discussions OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN AXEL SPRINGER 26
Partnership with Finanzen.net:
Business Insider Deutschland Market Data functionality on Business Insider US OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN AXEL SPRINGER 27
Partnership with ONET to publish Business Insider Poland, launching in 2016
Exploring other territories as well