3. Corporate
StructureNewspapers Publication Books And Magazines Internet Businesses
Apple Daily
Taiwan Apple Daily
Taiwan Sharp Daily
Newspaper Printing
Next Magazine
Bundle
Sudden Weekly
Bundle
FACE Bundle
Taiwan Next
Magazine Bundle
Magazine Printing
Book, Calendar and
Catalogue Printing
Internet Portals,
nxTomo,
Next Mobile, Online
Games, Animation
4. History
Key Dates
1990
Next Weekly
established
1995
Apple Daily
launched
1998Enter the
Internet
retail
market
Lai acquires the publicly
listed Paramount Publishing
Group, which is renamed
Next Media
Next Media had gone
public;
Operated various websites
including the online-
version of Apple Daily.
2009
Animated
News began
publishing
2011
Digital
division‘s
payments
balanced
6. Key Points
-Founded in 1995
-Origin: "if Adam and Eve didn't eat the apple,
there would be no evil or wrongdoings in this
world, which made news a non-existing term".
-Hong Kong's second best selling
-First use Demographic profile
-Market-driven journalism, all readers-centered
9. • Apple Daily’s mobile apps are among the top
downloads for iTunes and Android-platform
smartphones in Hong Kong and Taiwan ;
• Apple Actionews dominates the screens of
young commuters.
The online version of Apple
daily
11. Next Media Animation
• Key Facts:
– A unit of Next Media Group
– Began publishing in 2009
– Close to 500 staffs in TW
– Motion capture studios & Light Stage
– NMA is one of the largest full service
studios in Asia
12. Animation in News
• NMA is the first studio
anywhere applying 3D
animation to news
production
• Just in time delivery
– Apple Daily HK
– Apple Daily TW
– International News
– OEM Clients
15. 1503
1344
412
328
Top 4 newspapers' readership in Hong Kong
Apple Daily Oriented Daily Ming Pao The Sun
Source: The 2012 2013 Nielsen Media Index: Hong Kong Report
Traditional newspaper Readers
1535
1392
446
346
Top 4 newspapers' readership in Hong Kong
Apple Daily Oriented Daily
Ming Pao The Sun
16. Online news: Apple Daily
2012 2013
Unique
Visitors
3,700,000/
month
5,900,000/
month
App
Download
2,000,000
times
5,100,000
times
18. Traditional newspaper Circulation +advertising
Digital platform
Game development
Advertising (main):website
advertising+ app advertising;
Subscription fee;
The content of royalties.
20. To attract young audience to current news events, Apple
Daily has developed HTML5 games base on HOT topics.
Purchase license from foreign game company:
Barcode footballer.
Gam
es
21. NEXT MEDIA
2011 2012 2013
EBIT: (Million Hkd)
6877 5519 4566
Net Lose Per Share (Hkd)
0.7 7.8 40.1
Readers Number 1,535000 1503000
Circulation 259245/Day 230751/Day
But for digital platform:
the subscription fee, advertising profit and
The content of royalties are totally
157,200,000 hkd and last year this number is
47,200,000, it increase 233.1%.
24. News tracking,
updating and editing group
Project planning, website
maintaining and service group
動新聞editing group
News selection and publishing
group
storyboard
(less than 20
min)
Add dialogues
and subtitles
meeting
(10-15min)
3D motion capture
(10min)
3D model design
Combine and make
animation
(less than 1 hour)
3D motion adjustment
Add sound
effect
Key Point:
1. Streamline
2. Simultaneous work
3. Huge database
27. Light Stage (Light Stage X)
An instrumentation set-up used for
reflectance, texture and motion capture,
often with structured light and a multi-
camera setup.
The Light Stages have been used to help
create ever-more realistic virtual
characters.
28. XML/ NewsML
XML: Extensible Markup
Language
NewsML: News Markup
Language
RSS :Really Simple Syndication –
an XML based standard for web
content syndication
40. Traditional News to Animations
“Writing”
News
- descriptive
and logical
- easier to be
copied
Animation
- specific and
vivid
- some
technological
barriers, hard
to be copied
51. • Branding: 1st animation news in HK market
• Large amount of young audience
• Professional news team (Fast respondent)
• Reproduce "missing image"
• Hard to duplicate, high enter barrier
• Strong technical and financial support
• Enterprise culture: encourage innovation
Strengths
52. • Low-class taste yellow news
• Loss of credibility
• Revenue model mainly based on advertising
• Small screen of mobile
• Weak-tie relationships with audiences
• Still have bias to new media among Apple
Daily
Weakness
53. Opportunities
• High smartphone penetration
• High-speed, full coverage mobile network
• The diversity of animation industry
• The rise of technology-based enterprises
• Open political environment in HK
• Free and democratic social air
54. Threats
• Korean drama, Youtube
• Other traditional media enter new media field
• Loss of advertisers (Mainland, Li ka-shing)
• Concern about yellow news exposure to
teenager
• Fragmentation of users' time
• Resistance from mainland government
56. SO Stratege
• Expand animation business (Game, animation
drama)
• New advertising form on mobile
• Establish Chinese online advertising
platform(adwords)
59. Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
SO Strategies
Leverage strengths to
maximize opportunities
=ATTACKING STRATEGY
WO Strategies
Counter weakness through
exploiting opportunities
=BUILD STRENGTHS FOR
ATTACKING STRATEGY
ST Strategies
Leverage strengths to
minimize threats
=DEFENSIVE STRATEGY
SWOT
60. ST Strategy
• Improve content quality
• Entertainment news
• Control content ( ratings system)
• Guide users back to owned media
• Shorten the time of video
61. Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
SO Strategies
Leverage strengths to
maximize opportunities
=ATTACKING STRATEGY
WO Strategies
Counter weakness through
exploiting opportunities
=BUILD STRENGTHS FOR
ATTACKING STRATEGY
ST Strategies
Leverage strengths to
minimize threats
=DEFENSIVE STRATEGY
WT Strategies
Counter weaknesses and
threats
=BUILD STRENGTHS FOR
DEFENSIVE STRATEGY
SWOT