Industry Moves: NPR; C3 Metrics; MSLO; Callaway Digital Arts; Twitter
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
– NPR: The radio news… Read more »
Stanford’s Jonathan Mayer On Fixing Privacy
photo: Jonathan Mayer's Stanford page
Jonathan Mayer is the grad student whose research on internet tracking set off an explosive series of media reports and a flurry of privacy… Read more »
Property Ads About To Quit Newspapers For Web, Rightmove Reckons
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UK online property listings leader Rightmove saw profit improve by a quarter in 2011.
Now it forecasts a tipping point, saying newspapers a… Read more »
The Plan By Yahoo, Hulu, Other Big Video Firms To Grab Upfront TV Ad Money
photo: Corbis / Jonathan Gelber
Madison Avenue’s upfront ad markets are the place where TV broadcasters and cable companies sell the bulk of their billions of dollars in co… Read more »
Why Canoe Abandoned Ship With Interactive TV Ads
photo: Shutterstock / Oleg Zabielin
An ambitious effort by the cable industry to create unified standards for targeted and interactive television advertising has failed, the vi… Read more »
Report: Facebook, Google Overtake Yahoo In Display Ad Market Share
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Yahoo’s once dominant position with display advertising is now officially over. Research firm eMarketer released figures Wednesday showing t… Read more »
Home Decor Flash Site One Kings Lane Expands Editorial Content
photo: One Kings Lane
In the hopes that users will be drawn in by the video on how to make a bed perfectly, then stick around for the deals on Scandia pillows, ho… Read more »
Online Ad Spend Has Overtaken Print In Russia
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Online ad spend in Russia grew 56 percent through 2011, surpassing print media to become the country’s second-largest advertising medium. Read more »
In-Theater Programmer NCM Seeks Piece Of Upfront TV Ad Dollars
Add one more digital media company that will be looking to take advertising share away from the TV business this spring with a glitzy upfron… Read more »
What Yelp’s IPO Means About The Future Of Crowdsourced Media
Yelp announced pricing of its planned IPO, with plans to sell 7.15 million shares at $12 to $14 a share. But the important thing is that Yel… Read more »
Google On Defensive Yet Again In Snafu Over Ad-Tracking In Safari Browsers
photo: Corbis / Stanley Eales
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012: the latest comes after an investigation by The Wall Street J… Read more »
Google Deems Mobile Web Ads Ready For Prime AdSense Real Estate
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinks that mobile Web advertising has gotten to the point where it should be part of AdSense, the company’s lucrative e… Read more »
Revealed: Rate Cards Show UK News Sites’ Bulls And Beggars
What price do online newspapers put on their head? The amounts publishers charge advertisers indicates their bullishness about their busines… Read more »
YouTube’s Missing Monetization Makes Its Internet TV Prospects Patchy
YouTube’s fortunes in the emerging internet TV space may be hampered because it cannot yet help partners monetize their content on the new p… Read more »
Apple Said To Cut iAd Pricing Once Again
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has once again cut prices on its iAd system for rich in-app advertising on iOS applications, according to a report, as ad… Read more »
Industry Moves: NBCU; Digital First Media; thePlatform; SMG; Adara Media
– NBCUniversal: Krishan Bhatia has been promoted to EVP, digital strategy & operations for the Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integra… Read more »
NBCU Taps Google To Create Cross-Platform Audience Metric For 2012 Olympics
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NBCUniversal (NSDQ: CMCSA) will once again use its Olympics coverage to search for what it calls the “holy grail” of audience measurement. T… Read more »
Yell Finds Mixed Digital Fortunes As Google Swoops For Advertisers
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Yellow Pages publisher Yell Group must fight off not only the decline of its traditional print directories business but also now that of its… Read more »
How To Use Facebook’s Open Graph To Build Your Business
Last year, it became clear that Facebook is well on its way to becoming a social operating system underlying our digital lives. And the enh… Read more »
Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
photo: Zeebox
After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer… Read more »
Stub Rub: Does Exclusivity Hinder Sales Of Movie Tickets Online?
Besides the typical $1 to $2 broker fee, one of the factors limiting the growth of the online movie-ticket selling business has been its com… Read more »
Where Does Arianna Fit Into AOL’s New Patch Plans?
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) has hired a new Chief Content Officer in its latest attempt to reboot Patch, the network of hundreds of sites that offer “hy… Read more »
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
photo: Liberty: Natalie Tracy (Flickr) / Grabs: paidContent
Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw… Read more »
Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?
Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services — enabling people to buy Facebook Credits an… Read more »
By The Numbers: NBC’s Super Bowl Streams
It’s not the record average of 111 million viewers who watched the game on television, but NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) says it notched a digital miles… Read more »
Social TV’s Big Week: Flingo’s $7M Funding Follows Super Bowl
Two days after social TV made a splash at the Super Bowl, yet another new entry in that field, Flingo, announced that it has secured $7 mill… Read more »
McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, Touts Digital Investments
photo: Sac Chef, Brian Bentzen
McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts’ predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an ove… Read more »
Apple Promises A Crack Down On Those Who Manipulate App Store Rankings
photo: Touch Arcade
It took one allegation of download bots on a message board, very little in the way of actual confessions, and a whole lot of murmurs, but Ap… Read more »
Chinese Ad Money Moving Quickly From Print To Web
Marketers in China are fast moving advertising spend from offline to internet, one of the country’s largest online operators, Sohu (NSDQ: SO… Read more »
Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobile
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When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in… Read more »
Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’
It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is… Read more »
Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
photo: Getty Images / Justin Sullivan
It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hop… Read more »
The New York Times’ About.com: From All-Star To Albatross
photo: Shutterstock / James Blinn
About.com is in free fall. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) revealed yesterday that its network of information sites suffered a 67% drop in pr… Read more »
Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising
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Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing mass… Read more »
Facebook May Not Be Into Mobile Ads Yet, But Plenty Of Others Are
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Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Now Facebook Must Prove To Wall Street Its Ads Really Work
photo: Madison Ave: Life In LDN/Flickr & Wall Street: ToonariPost/Flickr & Zuckerberg: Jason McELweenie/Flickr
Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must… Read more »
2.7 Billion Daily Likes And Other Key Numbers From Facebook’s S-1
photo: Background: Shutterstock/Thomas Pajot & Zuckerberg: Andrew Feinberg/Flickr
Facebook’s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of peopl… Read more »
Facebook’s Status Update: $5 Billion IPO Filed
photo: Background: Shutterstock/Longquattro & Zuckerberg: Jason McELweenie/Flickr
It took the whole day, but Facebook finally — as many expected — filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaite… Read more »
Report: Broadcast Networks Will Get 8% Higher CPMs At Upfront This Year
The rush of content announcements from video companies in recent days, from players like YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Hulu, has caused a number… Read more »
Google Buys Online Ads In Pushback Over Privacy
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is purchasing display ads on websites like the *Washington Post*, an unusual move that is part of the company’s strained… Read more »
