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Ask HN: Are we giving up on the web for digital content?

1 pointsby mwetzlerabout 8 years ago
Obviously we are not _completely_ giving up on using the web for publishing, but in working with a variety of customers (e.g. major brands with millions of visitors), I am seeing a shift toward social not just for distribution, but as the entire content experience. With Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP, and all of the native video features of social apps, a number of publishers are finding that a big portion of their audience never even hits their website: they simply watch and&#x2F;or read the content in Facebook, google search results, on youtube, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t mean to pretend the idea of Facebook-as-browser is a brilliant new one. I ask this more as a service provider. If I could only pick one area for deepening our analytics tooling, which one would you choose?<p>A. Analytics tools for on-site content. Some examples of newer challenges here are tracking for native and interactive ads, embedded video tracking, audience analysis, etc. An example of recent investment in this area is a guide I wrote on native ad tracking. An example investment I&#x27;m considering is an analytics extension for prebid.js that allows you to track header bidding results.<p>B. Analytics tools for off-site content. Extensions for FB Instant Articles, Google Amp, that allow you to grab custom events off your content engagement in those channels. An example of an investment I&#x27;m considering here is adding our service as a built-in analytics option for FBIA and Google Amp.<p>Which would you pick?<p>Refs<p>Example custom ad guide: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keen.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;compute&#x2F;custom-ad-performance&#x2F;?s=ahn<p>Prebid.js header bidding: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prebid.org&#x2F;<p>FB IA Analytics extenstions: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;instant-articles&#x2F;analytics<p>AMP Analytics extensions: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ampproject.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;reference&#x2F;components&#x2F;ads&#x2F;amp-analytics

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