Media & Publishing
David Kaplan
Mar 11, 2010 9:19 AM
Just a few weeks after NYTCo (NYSE: NYT) chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and president and CEO Janet Robinson discussed the company’s forthcoming online meter system at paidContent’s recent conference on the subject, the two execs took the stage at Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Media Summit 2010 to continue to sell…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 10, 2010 7:20 PM
In Rob Glaser’s first public appearance since stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), he implored that it is incumbent upon companies to work together in order for the wireless sector to continue its break-neck pace of innovation. Glaser did not hint at what he might do next, but…
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Media & Publishing, Mobile, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, RealNetworks, rob glaser
David Kaplan
Mar 10, 2010 2:12 PM
One of the favorite sports of most media conferences these days involves trotting out Wired editor Chris Anderson’s “freemium” idea—which is predicated on balancing free online and paid premium content—and kicking it to the ground. The topic served as a introduction to discussing the problems associated with paywalls and display…
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Advertising, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, Conde Nast, Disney, ABC, ESPN, Reuters, Time Warner, Time Inc., media summit
David Kaplan
Mar 10, 2010 8:47 AM
It’s the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President Jon Klein led off in a Q&A with Bloomberg BW Editor Josh Tyrangiel, talking about the magic—and often illusory—word “synergy.” Klein talked about the ties that the Time Inc.…
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Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, Time Warner, Time Inc., cnn, jon klein, josh tyrangiel, media summit
Tricia Duryee
Mar 9, 2010 9:11 PM
Like many other developers, uLocate works closely with ad networks to monetize WHERE, its free mobile app that is available on a number of carrier networks and Android, iPhone and Palm (NSDQ: PALM). But WHERE often struggled to keep its fill rates high, and when campaigns ran out, it had…
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Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, Mobile, Search, Technologies / Formats, GPS Navigation/Maps, ulocate
Staci D. Kramer
Mar 9, 2010 7:15 PM
Barring a last-minute fix or change of strategy, at midnight Tuesday Hulu.com will switch from a co-host for online video of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to a referral engine for the popular shows. Viacom (NYSE: VIA) execs like to call it a test but…
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Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Viacom, hulu, philippe dauman
David Kaplan
Mar 9, 2010 6:29 PM
News aggregator Daylife will begin reselling pictures posted by users of London-based citizen-photo journalism site Demotix to create an “open image wire service.” The arrangement is an expansion of Daylife’s existing image programs. Last fall, Daylife began partnering with Getty Images—which is also an investor in Daylife—on products that lets…
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Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Countries, Europe, UK, daylife, demotix
Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 9, 2010 6:20 PM
Newspapers have blamed Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for their woes, and Google, in turn, has helped remind newspapers that they did a pretty good job of digging their own grave. The latest Googler to weigh in on the business is Chief Economist Hal Varian, in a speech to the FTC today.…
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David Kaplan
Mar 9, 2010 5:19 PM
Celebrity gossip site TMZ has quietly unveiled a gentler fashion-oriented offshoot called Too Fab. Although TMZ maintains high traffic—February uniques were up 6 percent to 14 million, per comScore (NSDQ: SCOR)—and gained new credibility by breaking the news of Michael Jackson’s death last year, many advertisers remain uncomfortable with the…
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Advertising, Features, Exclusive, Media & Publishing, Women-Centric Content, Online News, Social Media, Companies, AOL, tmz, too fab
Amanda Natividad
Mar 9, 2010 5:00 PM
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. Grimshaw, in an interview with…
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Media & Publishing, Online News, Events, ContentNext Events, paidContent 2010, Companies, Google, Hearst, Pearson, Financial Times, FT.com, cnn, contentnext media, ernie sander, josh cohen, kc estenson, lincoln millstein, rob grimshaw
Robert Andrews
Mar 9, 2010 1:45 PM
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardian’s London HQ. In this video, I ask the Financial Times’ lead online product manager Stephen Pinches about the the paper’s video strategy, which gets over a…
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Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, VOD, Companies, Pearson, Financial Times, FT.com, andy plesser, beet.tv, robert andrews, stephen pinches
Tricia Duryee
Mar 9, 2010 1:02 PM
The NFL has signed a new four-year deal with Verizon Wireless, putting an end to a roughly five-year partnership with Sprint (NYSE: S). The deal is valued at $720 million, including a rights fee and advertising spending, according to the WSJ, which quotes people familiar with the negotiations. NFL fans…
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Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Technologies / Formats, 3G, Companies, SprintNextel, Verizon, national football league
Rafat Ali
Mar 9, 2010 6:05 AM
Big media chasing money isn’t new. That they’re coming to the oil-rich desert nations of late, is. More specifically, at the call of Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC), the cash-rich media and investment company owned by the local government, they’re converged here for the next three days, at the man-made…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 8, 2010 9:57 PM
The search for revenue by deconstructing the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) into its most valuable pieces for various platforms continues. Up next: the New York Times Book Review for e-reader. NYT marketing exec James Dunn mentioned the new subscription effort during a session of the Digital Publishing Alliance (DPA)…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 8, 2010 8:15 PM
Variety followed up Sunday’s Academy Awards with a different batch of envelopes, handing out pink slips to eight editorial staffers—including chief film critic Todd McCarthy and theater critic David Rooney—in its latest reorg. Reed Business Information has sold or plans to sell most of its U.S. titles that rely heavily…
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Entertainment, Movies, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Companies, Reed Elsevier, david rooney, tim gray, todd mccarthy, variety
Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 8, 2010 5:30 PM
Once again, rumors are making their rounds that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is going to make some sort of set-top box play. The latest: The WSJ reports that the company is working with Dish Network on a new feature that would let users search both TV content and web videos on…
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David Kaplan
Mar 8, 2010 4:39 PM
Although TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) saw a healthy gain in revenues in Q4, the DVR company was unable to balance its growing costs and reduced subscriber additions. Nevertheless, TiVo has been riding high on some good news in the form of last week’s favorable legal decision, when two members of a…
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David Kaplan
Mar 8, 2010 12:41 PM
B2b publisher TechTarget has bought business data site ebizQ.net. Terms weren’t disclose. This is Newton, MA-based TechTarget’s second acquisition in little more than a month. A few weeks ago, Mike Laverick sold his virtual server training blog RTFM-ed.co.uk to TechTarget.
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Media & Publishing, B2B, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, ebizq, techtarget
Staci D. Kramer
Mar 8, 2010 12:11 PM
The Nook is only part of Barnes & Noble’s digital strategy. Now that the e-reader is launched and its production problems appear to be resolved, B&N is heightening its focus on another major area: selling digital content through its own site and device, and through other devices like the upcoming…
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Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Books, eReaders, Magazines, Newspapers, barnes & noble, jonathan shar
Staci D. Kramer
Mar 8, 2010 11:00 AM
It took just two years for Gabe Rivera to have four verticals, including tech “front page” Techmeme, running off his algorithm for discovering and highlighting news. The fourth site, BallBug, launched for opening day in 2006. It took four years to add one—Mediagazer, a site launching today to aggregate news…
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Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Nanopublishing, News Sharing, Technologies / Formats, gabe rivera, mediagazer, megan mccarthy, memeorandum, techmeme