Facebook’s shares are now at its highest level ever, up 71% from last year, due to a hike in mobile advertising sales on the platform.

Compared to last year mobile ad revenue on Facebook has increased 3 per cent over the last year, to make up 87 per cent of the total advertising revenue of the company.

One way to boost audience engagement is to allow readers to participate and submit content of their own. Many organisations, like The Financial Times, are welcoming this strategy.

The FT has adopted this approach to boost audience engagement with their content. It focuses on getting readers more involved and creating communities amongst readers.

Subscriptions are on the up across the industry with many publishers seeing a huge improvement in numbers compared to last year figures.

Newspapers such as The Times and The Spectator have seen subscriptions rise 200 percent and 100 percent over the past 12 months respectively, according to Digiday.

Some publishers such as Buzzfeed are making changes to their CMS, ensuring ‘mobile-first’ is the main focus.

For a long time, the industry has seen an increased focus on making sure content is responsive on mobile devices. Majority of publishers have seen an increase in traffic from mobile devices, so there is no surprise that this area has been centre of attention in the industry.

It’s that time of year again when forecasts are made for where the publishing and tech media trends are heading in 2017. So, here’s a round-up of predictions from the top commentators.

But first our pick of the favourite based on what we consider to be the five pillars of modern publishing: