Mr. Shangkong | Traditional media industry playing catch-up in Hong Kong
City's media industry may need to team up with internet giants to help transform business model
The year 2015 may not be remembered as a good one for the traditional media industry in Hong Kong but there has been more activity in the new media marketing and advertising business, just reaffirming the pressure on the industry's transformation.
We've seen a handful of newspaper and magazine staff layoffs and business closures this year in Hong Kong, mostly due to the general downtrend in traditional media business, in particular print and radio, as the younger generation dramatically change the way they consume information.
Most media organisations rely on three revenue streams: subscriptions, in both print and digital form; events and conferences, such as those organised by the ; and advertising.
With the inevitable decline in print advertising, digital advertising is the future, and we can get a glimpse of that future from three recent major developments in the Greater China region.
Also last week, global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announced it would acquire Fluid, a Hong Kong design and creative agency founded by Simon Squibb, whose clients include the SCMP and the . PwC has been pushing more into strategy consulting in recent years, going beyond its old-fashioned auditing services.
