Is your platform ready for the next generation of connected devices? Your audience will not wait.

In order to survive in the modern marketplace, publishing companies both large and small need to practice almost constant innovation to remain financially viable.

Tom Hawkins breaks down the PPA Live! In Pods We Trust virtual event to highlight the key takeaways for publishers looking to start a podcast.

By now you will have seen the news regarding the bringing forward of the introduction of the zero rate for digital publications to 1 May 2020. As such, you will no longer have to account for VAT on supplies of a myriad of digital publications that you make to your customers.

As the ongoing pandemic and fallout from COVID-19 continues to impact our businesses and lives, the PPA continues to support the publishing industry, specifically through our lobbying work.

Last week, three podcast professionals came together for our second PPA Live! event to discuss how publishers can use podcasts effectively and podcast innovation in a COVID-19 world.

After 40 years in the industry, editing, publishing and launching magazines followed by 10 years of bringing the industry together as CEO of the PPA, Barry McIlheney looks back on the career that began in Belfast and brought him to London where he instantly made his mark as Editor of Smash Hits at 26-years-old. "I didn't really know it at the time, but this was the big break," he says. "Everything I have done since then stems from that." As he steps down from his official role at the PPA, McIlheney reflects on the highlights, his favourite covers and the striking changes in the industry that have taken place over the last 30 years.

Artificial intelligence in the publishing world.

The PPA Awards 2020, originally scheduled to take place on the evening of June 30 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, will go ahead as a virtual event.

UPDATE: DCMS respond to PPA letter written to Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, calling for the adjustments to government schemes intended to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus in order to provide greater support for UK publishers.

Air Business CEO Adam Sherman shares a message with PPA members and Air Business staff and customers.

Paul McNamee, Editor of the Big Issue spoke with PPA CEO Barry McIlheney about what has happened to the iconic street title since the streets have emptied, as part of the first PPA Live! event series.