Mobile Ad Figures Show Android Has Secured Its OS Lead, Apple A Device Lead
Monthly figures out from Millennial Media once again show that Android is the most dominant OS on its mobile ad network — the mobile platfo… Read more »
MPA: Majority Of Digital Magazine Readers Want In-App, E-Commerce Features
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Although advertising is the strongest part of print magazine publishers’ revenues streams, that area has been weakening for some time. In it… Read more »
Knight-Backed Local News Site 'Brooklyn Bureau' Launches
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The Brooklyn Bureau, a nonprofit local news site with backing from the Knight Foundation, is now live. The site will focus on civic affairs… Read more »
The Atlantic Now Gets 'More Than Half' Of Its Ad Revenues From Digital
While every established print publisher is trying to find a way to build up digital advertising revenue to offset eroding print dollars, few… Read more »
NYT Launches Group Digital Subscriptions For Companies
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The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
» Has The Kindle Fire Already… Read more »
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
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A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more »
Three Cries Foul To EU Regulators Over British Mobile Commerce JV
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We have seen this one brewing for some time already, and now it appears to be bubbling over: the Hutchison-owned UK mobile operator Three is… Read more »
Video Ad Networks BrightRoll, YuMe Raise New Millions
As online video’s growth shows no sign of slowing down, broadband video ad network BrightRoll has raised a $30 million third round to extend… Read more »
Wee Motion Plus: Digital Marketing In The Men's Room
Eat your heart out, Kinect, Move and Wii – the list of new video game controllers just got its weirdest addition yet. Read more »
Condé Nast Launches Private Exchange With AdMeld
Although ad sales people at major publishers sometimes like to deride real-time bidding as a “race to the bottom,” fearing that the auction-… Read more »
Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
More Turmoil At Newsweek/Daily Beast As Three Top Executives Exit
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D… Read more »
Yell Seeks To Buy Back Debt And Renegotiate Loan Terms
Yell Group, the telephone directories business struggling under a £2.6bn debt pile, is hoping to spend £160m buying back its own bonds and… Read more »
WPP Re-Invests In Chinese Video Game Ads Company
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WPP and Revolution Capital are making a second investment in InGameAdvertising, the Shanghai-based Chinese in-game advertising network. Read more »
AOL Has A Profitable Mobile Business, But It's Not Because Of Apps Or Ads
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has banked a lot of its fortunes on selling advertising around a group of high-traffic web properties. But just as it still… Read more »
Mobile Ad Firm 4INFO Names Tim Jenkins CEO. Zaw Thet Now 'Chief Evangelist'
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So a changing of the guard at mobile ad company 4INFO, which announced a funding round of $14 million just last month: Zaw Thet, the company… Read more »
AP Begins HD Video News Rollout With Entertainment
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The Associated Press is launching its high-definition AP Entertainment news service as part a “multi-million” dollar upgrade that will make… Read more »
Roll On, Digital Reorganization. Telefonica Posts First Loss In Nine Years
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Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket — centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit — and w… Read more »
Google Takes Two: Buys Apture To Enhance Chrome, Katango To Beef Up Google+
Not one but two tech acquisitions were announced by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) today: Apture and Katango, both of which point to Google’s ambition… Read more »
Industry Moves: Safari Books Online; Compass Labs; Mesa; SocialVolt
– Safari Books Online: Andrew Savikas has been appointed CEO of Safari Books Online, a joint venture of O’Reilly Media and Pearson (NYSE: P… Read more »
Iger: NBA Strike Won't Hurt ESPN; This Is The 'Pre-Season' Of Digital Video
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The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) pulled in a pretty solid fiscal 2011 and FY Q4, but a number of challenges have emerged that could threaten… Read more »
Disney Interactive Media Narrows Loss On Higher Revenue
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The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) beat the street on revenue and earnings for the quarter ending Oct. 1, led by its cable networks and theme p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-10-11
» ‘I Am Not Incompetent’ – James Murdoch Defends Himself (paidContent)
» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Buys Voice-To-Text Start… Read more »
By Selling Stake In LMK, Hearst Sharpens Its Focus As A Tech Incubator
Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not h… Read more »
Box Office Revenues Propel Viacom, As Advertising Sees Decent Gains
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The third movie in the Transformers franchise helped boost Viacom’s revenues in its FY Q4 results both at the box office as digital distrib… Read more »
Industry Moves: Microsoft's Mobile Leaver, iProspect, Adaptly
Some of the latest entrances and exit in hiring in the UK digital media business… Read more »
Bingo Losses Wipe Out Digital Ad Gains For Mirror Group
Online ad sales are growing very slowly in the regions, faster at the national level and paid gaming is drying up, according to Trinity Mirr… Read more »
Marketing Misfires Trigger More 'Text Spam' Lawsuits
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Text messages are an irresistible marketing opportunity for brands to connect with their customers. But some text campaigns are tripping ove… Read more »
Razorfish: Ad Exchanges Are Becoming The Industry Standard
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Like most major ad agencies, Publicis Groupe digital shop Razorfish became very bullish on ad exchanges this past year, increasing the amoun… Read more »
Shopping App Shopkick Adds 1,000 Old Navy Stores To Its Network
A big bump in business for bricks-and-mortar mobile shopping app Shopkick: the company has signed a significant deal with Old Navy clothing… Read more »
Video Ads Landgrab: Adconion, Blinkx Buy Smartclip, PVMG
Two new acquisitions underscore how M&A is fuelling ongoing consolidation in the still-growing online video advertising segment. Read more »
A Tale Of Two Strategies: Home And Away With Orange And Vodafone
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read more »
AOL, Microsoft And Yahoo Are Officially Ad Sales Allies
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The portal trio alliance between AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) that was being explored in September is now… Read more »
What Twitter's Latest Move Means For Other Social TV Players
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As social TV emerges as something beyond an experiment for advertisers and TV networks, Twitter is eager to take a bigger role in connecting… Read more »
MSLO Hires iVIllage's Lagani To Oversee Ad Sales
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has hired ad sales veteran Joe Lagani to the newly-created post of chief revenue officer as the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Groupon, Yelp Sued Over Mobile Commerce Patent
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Investors are not the only ones who see Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) as a money maker these days. In a lawsuit filed today, a California company is… Read more »
Google Expands DoubleClick Inventory From Mobile Web To Apps
Now that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been making strong inroads into consolidating its hold on the PC-based display marketplace through its Doub… Read more »
