The 5 biggest digital media trends for 2014

Three years after Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, it's clear that we're looking at a new paradigm of digital publishing: content designed for and delivered through apps on touchscreen devices just isn't the same as the web or print. Content owners everywhere - from traditional publishers to retail brands - have to recalibrate how they think about distributing content in this new space, because what users want and expect there is different than any other medium.

It isn't yet entirely clear how everything will shake out. Publishers, advertisers, marketers, businesses and organizations are just now beginning to realize the full potential of the platform. The good news is nobody disputes that mobile touchscreen devices are the future of where you’ll find eyeballs for your content, and that means opportunity for everyone. Here are five areas we see being fundamentally changed by the touchscreen, app-based content ecosystem.

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.