Isle of Man Newspapers website

[ThreeRaccoonsInATrenchCoat 86]

I have just gone onto iomtoday.co.im and a screen popped up telling me I had to accept their privacy policy to continue. It says that if you continue, you give permission for your information to be processed by the following companies:

Tindle Newspapers Ltd.
1020, Inc. dba Placecast and Ericsson Emodo
1plusX AG
2KDirect, Inc. (dba iPromote)
33Across
360e-com Sp. z o.o.
6Sense Insights, Inc.
7Hops.com Inc. (ZergNet)
: Tappx
A Million Ads Ltd
A.Mob
AAX LLC
Accorp Sp. z o.o.
Active Agent (ADITION technologies AG)
AcuityAds Inc.
Ad Alliance GmbH
ad6media
Adacado Technologies Inc. (DBA Adacado)
adality GmbH
ADARA MEDIA UNLIMITED
adbility media GmbH
ADCELL | Firstlead GmbH
AdClear GmbH
AdColony, Inc.
AddApptr GmbH
AdDefend GmbH
Adevinta Spain S.L.U.
Adform
AdGear Technologies, Inc.
Adhese
adhood.com
Adikteev
ADITION technologies AG
Adjust GmbH
Adkernel LLC
Adloox SA
Adludio Ltd
ADMAN - Phaistos Networks, S.A.
ADman Interactive SLU
adMarketplace, Inc.
admetrics GmbH
Admixer EU GmbH
Adnami Aps
adnanny.com SLU
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Experience Platform
Adpone SL
adrule mobile GmbH
Adserve.zone / Artworx AS
Adsolutions BV
AdSpirit GmbH
adsquare GmbH
Adssets AB
AdsWizz Inc.
Adtarget Medya A.S.
Adtelligent Inc.
AdTheorent, Inc
ADUX
advanced store GmbH
Adverline
Adverticum cPlc.
ADWAYS SAS
Adxperience SAS
ADYOULIKE SA
Adzymic Pte Ltd
AerServ LLC
Affle International
agof - daily campaign facts
agof - daily digital facts
AirGrid LTD
Alliance Gravity Data Media
Amazon Advertising
Amobee, Inc.
Aniview LTD
AntVoice
Anzu Virtual Reality LTD
Apester Ltd
Appier PTE Ltd
Arcspire Limited
Arkeero
ARMIS SAS
Artefact Deutschland GmbH
ATG Ad Tech Group GmbH
Audience Trading Platform Ltd.
AudienceProject Aps
Audiencerate LTD
Audiens S.r.l.
Audienzz AG
AuDigent
audio content & control GmbH
AUDIOMOB LTD
Avid Media Ltd
Avocet Systems Limited
Axel Springer Teaser Ad GmbH
Axonix LTD
Azerion Holding B.V.
bam! interactive marketing GmbH
Bandsintown Amplified LLC
Bannerflow AB
Bannernow, Inc.
Beachfront Media LLC
Beaconspark Ltd
BeeswaxIO Corporation
BEINTOO SPA
BeOp
Between Exchange
BidMachine Inc.
Bidstack Limited
BIDSWITCH GmbH
Bidtellect, Inc
BidTheatre AB
Bigabid Media ltd
BILENDI SA
Bit Q Holdings Limited
BLIINK SAS
Blingby LLC
Blis Media Limited
Blockthrough, Inc.
Blue
Blue Billywig BV
Bmind a Sales Maker Company, S.L.
Bombora Inc.
Bounce Exchange, Inc
Brand Advance Limited
Brand Metrics Sweden AB
BritePool Inc
Browsi
Bucksense Inc
BusinessClick
Captify Technologies Limited
Carbon (AI) Limited
Cavai AS & UK
Cedato Technologies Ltd
Celtra, Inc.
ChannelSight
Cint AB
Click Tech Limited
Clinch Labs LTD
Clipcentric, Inc.
Cloud Technologies S.A.
Codewise VL Sp. z o.o. Sp. k
Collective Europe Ltd.
Comcast International France SAS
Commanders Act
communicationAds GmbH & Co. KG
comScore, Inc.
Connatix Native Exchange Inc.
ConnectAd Realtime GmbH
Consumable, Inc.
Contact Impact GmbH
Converge-Digital
Cookie Market LTD
Crimtan Holdings Limited
Criteo SA
Cxense ASA
Czech Publisher Exchange z.s.p.o.
Dailymotion SA
Dataseat Ltd
DAZN Media Services Limited
DeepIntent, Inc.
DEFINE MEDIA GMBH
Delta Projects AB
Dentsu Aegis Network Italia SpA
Deutsche Post AG
Digiseg ApS
Digital East GmbH
digitalAudience
DIGITEKA Technologies
Discover-Tech ltd
district m inc.
DistroScale, Inc.
DoubleVerify Inc.
Dugout Limited
Duration Media, LLC.
DynAdmic
Dynamic 1001 GmbH
Dynata LLC
EASY Marketing GmbH
EASYmedia GmbH
Effiliation
Effinity
Emerse Sverige AB
emetriq GmbH
EMX Digital LLC
Epsilon
Eulerian Technologies
Exactag GmbH
Exponential Interactive, Inc d/b/a VDX.tv
Eyeota Pte Ltd
Ezoic Inc.
Factor Eleven GmbH
Fandom, Inc.
FeedAd GmbH
Fifty Technology Limited
Flashtalking, Inc.
Forensiq LLC
Free Stream Media Corp. dba Samba TV
Fusio by S4M
Fyber
Gamned
Gamoshi LTD
GDMServices, Inc. d/b/a FiksuDSP
GeistM Technologies LTD
Gemius SA
GfK Netherlands B.V.
Global Media & Entertainment Limited
GlobalWebIndex
Go.pl sp. z o.o.
Goldbach Group AG
Golden Bees
Good-Loop Ltd
Google Advertising Products
GP One GmbH
Grabit Interactive Media Inc dba KERV Interctive
GroupM UK Limited
GumGum, Inc.
Haensel AMS GmbH
Happydemics
Hivestack Inc.
Hybrid Adtech GmbH
Hybrid Theory
HyperTV Inc.
ID5 Technology SAS
Impactify
Improve Digital BV
Index Exchange, Inc.
INFINIA MOBILE S.L.
INFOnline GmbH
InMobi Pte Ltd
INNITY
Inskin Media LTD
Inspired Mobile Limited
Instinctive, Inc.
Instreamatic inc.
InsurAds Technologies SA.
Integral Ad Science, Inc.
Internet BillBoard a.s.
INVIBES GROUP
INVIDI technologies AB
IP Deutschland GmbH
IPONWEB GmbH
iPROM
Jaduda GmbH
Jampp LTD
Jivox Corporation
Jointag S.r.l.
Justpremium BV
Justtag Sp. z o.o.
Kairion GmbH
Kairos Fire
Kameleoon SAS
Kayzen
Keymantics
Kiosked Ltd
Knorex
Kochava Inc.
Kubient Inc.
KUPONA GmbH
Kwanko
lead alliance GmbH
LEESTEN INC
Lifesight Pte. Ltd.
LifeStreet Corporation
Liftoff Mobile, Inc.
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company
LiquidM Technology GmbH
LiveRamp, Inc.
Localsensor B.V.
Location Sciences AI Ltd.
LoopMe Limited
Lotame Solutions, inc
Lucid Holdings, LLC
Lucidity
Madington
MADVERTISE MEDIA
mainADV Srl
Marfeel Solutions, SL
Market Resource Partners LLC
MARKETPERF CORP
Mars Media Group
Maximus Live LLC
McCann Discipline LTD
Media Square
Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC
Mediakeys Platform
MediaMath, Inc.
MEDIAMETRIE
mediarithmics SAS
Mediasmart Mobile S.L.
Meetrics GmbH
MGID Inc.
Miaozhen Information Technology Co. Ltd
Mindlytix SAS
MindTake Research GmbH
MiQ
Mirando GmbH & Co KG
MISSENA
mobalo GmbH
Mobfox US LLC
Mobile Professionals BV
Mobsuccess
Moloco, Inc.
Monet Engine Inc
MOVIads Sp. z o.o. Sp. k.
MyTraffic
N Technologies Inc.
Nano Interactive GmbH
Nativo, Inc.
NC Audience Exchange, LLC (NewsIQ)
Near Pte Ltd
Neodata Group srl
NEORY GmbH
Netsprint SA
netzeffekt GmbH
NEURAL.ONE
Neustar on behalf of The Procter & Gamble Company
NeuStar, Inc.
Newsroom AI Ltd
NEXD
NextRoll, Inc.
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
NoBid, Inc.
Norstat AS
Noster Finance S.L.
Notify
NOW GmbH
Nubo LTD
numberly
Ogury Ltd.
On Device Research Limited
OnAudience Ltd
One Planet Only
OneTag Limited
Onfocus (Adagio)
Online Advertising Network Sp. z o.o.
Online Solution Int Limited
Onnetwork Sp. z o.o.
OpenX
Opinary GmbH
Oracle Data Cloud
Oracle Data Cloud - Moat
Orion Semantics
ORTEC B.V.
Otto (GmbH & Co KG)
Outbrain UK Ltd
PaperG, Inc. dba Thunder Industries
Passendo Aps
Performax.cz, s.r.o.
Permodo GmbH
Permutive Limited
Permutive Technologies, Inc.
Pexi B.V.
Pinpoll GmbH (Private Limited)
Pixalate, Inc.
PIXIMEDIA SAS
Platform161
Playbuzz Ltd (aka EX.CO)
PLAYGROUND XYZ EMEA LTD
plista GmbH
Polar Mobile Group Inc.
Predicio
Programatica de publicidad S.L.
Protected Media LTD
Proxi.cloud sp. z.o.o
PROXISTORE
Pubfinity LLC
Publicis Media GmbH
PubMatic, Inc.
PubNative GmbH
Pure Local Media GmbH
Qriously Ltd
Quantcast International Limited
Radio Net Media Limited
Rakuten Marketing LLC
Reach Media GmbH
Readpeak Oy
Realeyes OU
Reignn Platform Ltd
Relay42 Netherlands B.V.
remerge GmbH
Reppublika- The Research Toolbox GmbH
Research and Analysis of Media in Sweden AB
Resolution Media München GmbH
retailAds GmbH & Co. KG
Revcontent, LLC
Reveal Mobile, Inc
RevJet
Rezonence Limited
RhythmOne DBA Unruly Group Ltd
Rich Audience Technologies SL
RMSi Radio Marketing Service interactive GmbH
Roku Advertising Services
Roq.ad Inc.
RTB House S.A.
Samba TV UK Limited
ScaleMonk Inc.
Scene Stealer Limited
Seeding Alliance GmbH
Seedtag Advertising S.L
Seenthis AB
SelectMedia International LTD
Semasio GmbH
Seznam.cz, a.s.
ShareThis, Inc
Sharethrough, Inc
SheMedia, LLC
Shopalyst Inc
Showheroes SE
Sift Media, Inc
Signal Digital Inc.
Signals
Simplifi Holdings Inc.
SINGLESPOT SAS
Sirdata
SITU8ED SA
Sizmek by Amazon
Skaze
Smaato, Inc.
Smadex SL
Smart Adserver
Smart Traffik
smartclip Europe GmbH
Smartclip Hispania SL
Smartology Limited
SMARTSTREAM.TV GmbH
Smile Wanted Group
Snapsort Inc., operating as Sortable
Snapupp Technologies SL
Solocal
Sonobi, Inc
SoundCast
Sourcepoint Technologies, Inc.
Sovrn Holdings Inc
Spolecznosci Sp. z o.o. Sp. k.
Sportradar AG
Spot.IM LTD
SpotX, Inc.
SpringServe, LLC
StackAdapt
STRIATUM SAS
Ströer SSP GmbH (DSP)
Ströer SSP GmbH (SSP)
Sublime
SunMedia
Survata Inc.
TabMo SAS
Taboola Europe Limited
TACTIC™ Real-Time Marketing AS
Tapad, Inc.
Tapjoy, Inc.
TAPTAP Digital SL
Targetspot Belgium SPRL
TargetVideo GmbH
Teads
Teemo SA
Telaria SAS
Telaria, Inc
Telecoming S.A.
Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A.U
Temelio
Teroa S.A.
The ADEX GmbH
The Kantar Group Limited
The MediaGrid Inc.
THE NEWCO S.R.L.
The Ozone Project Limited
The Reach Group GmbH
The Rubicon Project, Inc.
The Trade Desk
Think Clever Media
TRADELAB
travel audience GmbH
TreSensa, Inc.
Triapodi Ltd.
Triboo Data Analytics
TripleLift, Inc.
Triton Digital Canada Inc.
TrueData Solutions, Inc.
twiago GmbH
UAB Aktyvus sektorius - Eskimi
UAB Meazy
UberMedia, Inc.
ucfunnel Co., Ltd.
Underdog Media LLC
Unruly Group Ltd
uppr GmbH
usemax advertisement (Emego GmbH)
Ve Global UK Limited
VECTAURY
Venatus Media Limited
Verizon Media EMEA Limited
VEXPRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Vibrant Media Limited
Vidazoo Ltd
video intelligence AG
Vidoomy Media SL
ViewPay
Visarity Technologies GmbH
vitrado GmbH
VRTCAL Markets Inc
Wagawin GmbH
WebAds B.V
WEBORAMA
Welect GmbH
WhatRocks Inc.
White Ops, Inc.
Widespace AB
Wizaly
xAd, Inc. dba GroundTruth
Xandr, Inc.
Yieldlab AG
Yieldlove GmbH
Yieldmo, Inc.
YOC AG
ZBO Media
Zemanta, Inc.
zeotap GmbH
Ziff Davis LLC

I can understand Tindle because they own the newspaper, but what in God's holy name are the rest all about? Who are all these companies? I wouldn't touch their cookies with a barge pole without further information on who they are and what they want to do with my information. 

[gettafa 6,542]

I get two pop ups, and then the same for every page visited after that. Something is a bit shit, and I just avoid IoM Newspapers websites.

[ThreeRaccoonsInATrenchCoat 86]

Manx Radio, BBC Isle of Man, Energy FM, and MTTV are all vastly superior to IOM Newspapers. There are no real journalists or journalism with IOM Newspapers.

[Apple 431]

You would be surprised where health information gets shared with. Financial Times did a report a few weeks ago and plotted where the UK sends it to. Seems the UK NHS can sell it for around £10 billion a year to drug and insurance companies, and various others. Hope it isn't coming here, is it....

[Frances 363]

this site merely links to the arch satan of all - pagead2.googlesyndication.com -

[x-in-man 2,194]

They should just rename the site IOMacoupleofdaysago.co.im

Edited August 30 by x-in-man

[VinnieK 1,432]

2 hours ago, ThreeRaccoonsInATrenchCoat said:

Manx Radio, BBC Isle of Man, Energy FM, and MTTV are all vastly superior to IOM Newspapers. There are no real journalists or journalism with IOM Newspapers.

I only really started paying attention to the Isle of Man newspapers in about the 2000s and am genuinely interested to know if there was a time in recentish history when the newspapers on the Island were much better. In particular, did things start going south around the time Johnston Press?

I do have a bit of sympathy for IOM Newspapers. I'd imagine that they're are in a difficult position in having the resources of a U.K. local newspaper (with which their efforts aren't that bad in comparison), but having duties closer to that of a national newspaper.

Edited August 30 by VinnieK

[Roger Mexico 8,808]

1 hour ago, VinnieK said:

I only really started paying attention to the Isle of Man newspapers in about the 2000s and am genuinely interested to know if there was a time in recentish history when the newspapers on the Island were much better. In particular, did things start going south around the time Johnston Press?

I do have a bit of sympathy for IOM Newspapers. I'd imagine that they're are in a difficult position in having the resources of a U.K. local newspaper (with which their efforts aren't that bad in comparison), but having duties closer to that of a national newspaper.

Johnston Press certainly didn't help, they were always madly over-leveraged because they bought so many titles at the height of the newspaper boom and just milked their more profitable locals in places like the Isle of Man to pay for the borrowings.  They also were subsidising the national paper they did own (the Scotsman) as a national paper even though it was only selling 2-3 times what the Examiner did (despite Scotland having 60-odd times the population).  So staffing has been minimal for many years and they simply don't have people to do the sort of standard thing like court and local authority reporting that they did do years ago.  And as you say they have national responsibilities that they can't even begin to cover.

Things have got a bit better since Tindle bought them, but Tindle have always specialised in hyper-local and being non-political, neither of which really fits with the role IOM Newspapers should have. They're more usable online than they were, but the websites of most British local and regional papers are so terrible even on the most basic technical level, that it's not really much of a compliment.  

Despite the way we all complain about them, I don't think they do too bad a job given the constraints.  Certainly they produce more than Manx Radio and especially BBC IOM do with better resources.

[Augustus 304]

Their so-called main reporter manages to misspell his own name on the front page of Friday's Courier. I rest my case.

[Uhtred 9,488]

5 minutes ago, Augustus said:

Their so-called main reporter manages to misspell his own name on the front page of Friday's Courier. I rest my case.

Yes, I noticed that. It was printed as Billy Twta. 

Edited August 31 by Uhtred

[VinnieK 1,432]

5 minutes ago, Augustus said:

Their so-called main reporter manages to misspell his own name on the front page of Friday's Courier. I rest my case.

The spelling and grammatical mistakes are a problem, especially on the website. I suspect a mix of understaffing and too-restrictive deadlines is preventing the necessary amount of copy editing and reviewing taking place. 

I can't remember whether it was MR or IOM Newspapers, but one of the weirdest examples of botched presentation I've ever seen from a news organization was an instance where the journalist had taken a picture of their grubby monitor screen, complete with a fuzzy reflection of themselves, instead of just taking a screenshot.

[Augustus 304]

30 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

The spelling and grammatical mistakes are a problem, especially on the website. I suspect a mix of understaffing and too-restrictive deadlines is preventing the necessary amount of copy editing and reviewing taking place. 

I can't remember whether it was MR or IOM Newspapers, but one of the weirdest examples of botched presentation I've ever seen from a news organization was an instance where the journalist had taken a picture of their grubby monitor screen, complete with a fuzzy reflection of themselves, instead of just taking a screenshot.

... not to mention poor human material to start with.

[Max Power 6,189]

10 hours ago, VinnieK said:

I only really started paying attention to the Isle of Man newspapers in about the 2000s and am genuinely interested to know if there was a time in recentish history when the newspapers on the Island were much better. In particular, did things start going south around the time Johnston Press?

I do have a bit of sympathy for IOM Newspapers. I'd imagine that they're are in a difficult position in having the resources of a U.K. local newspaper (with which their efforts aren't that bad in comparison), but having duties closer to that of a national newspaper.

Their reporting was great previously, any sex related court case had better reading than the News of the World! 

Edited August 31 by Max Power

[Roger Mexico 8,808]

4 hours ago, Augustus said:

Their so-called main reporter manages to misspell his own name on the front page of Friday's Courier. I rest my case.

It's actually in the byline in bold, so it may have been done by whoever did the layout rather than reporter[1].  If your surname is a misspelling of a normal word then you're going to spend your life having it 'corrected' by other people.

4 hours ago, VinnieK said:

The spelling and grammatical mistakes are a problem, especially on the website. I suspect a mix of understaffing and too-restrictive deadlines is preventing the necessary amount of copy editing and reviewing taking place. 

A lot of the website stuff is just straight from article in the paper.  They often even leave the cross-heads in as one-word paragraphs. Very little is proofed or even reread because the people aren't there.  At one time local papers would have a full column in each issue listing all the employees and how to contact them, but it's down to a mere handful and you get rewarded for quantity not quality.  But the situation isn't much better with the London national press

I actually find it more annoying with Manx Radio who consistently make such mistakes (including using words they clearly don't know the meaning of) but never correct anything.  Given that they have to produce many fewer words it's not really acceptable.  Weekends are particularly bad.  They're also much slower than other sources.  For example with the Ellan Vannin fire (which was Sunday am) they didn't get something up till this morning - even 3FM managed something by last night.

 

[1]  Possibly someone not even employed by IOM Newspapers or even Tindle - a lot of this stuff (and proofreading) is done remotely by freelancers.

[ThreeRaccoonsInATrenchCoat 86]

Their lack of familiarity with the English language is the least of their problems. Even if they wrote with perfect grammar, spelling and punctuation, the  tedious third-rate content would remain.