It took a year, 160 first meetings and a lot of travel time but Greycroft Partners finally has closed its second fund, $130.7 million Greycroft II. It’s a case of second verse, same as the first with plans to continue investing in early-stage digital media companies that deliver products and…

Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And what’s the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010’s The Truth About Subscriptions, who…

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…

Caroline Little, who till earlier this year was the CEO of Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s online division and left, has now joined Guardian News & Media (GNM), the UK-based media group which publishes the Guardian, among others. She will start next month in the role of Special Advisor, GNM…

The acquisition of our parent company, ContentNext Media, is a major change for us, but it also marks a turning point for the UK company to which we now belong. ContentNext is Guardian News & Media‘s first acquisition outside the UK and its first of this sort at all; we…

Earlier this week we had our LA Year-End Review panel and ContentNext Mixer at the WGA theater. The one -hour panel on digital video/entertainment in 2008 touched on a lot of points, and we had a good discussion on the financing aspects, the changing talent management business, the advertising and…

Our LA Year-End Review panel and ContentNext Mixer this evening at the WGA theater went very well….thanks to the panelists, sponsors and everyone who came. The panel on digital video/entertainment in 2008 certainly touched on a lot of points, and we had a good discussion on the financing aspects, the…

Coming this week on Tuesday evening: the LA Year-End Digital Media Review and ContentNext Mixer of paidContent.org and Moconews.net, at Writers Guild Theater, in Beverly Hills. The year-end review panel will focus on digital video/entertainment in 2008, in light of what happened in 07, AND the writers strike and its…

This coming Monday, after the Thanksgiving holidays, we’ll open registration for our Year-End Digital Media Review Panel and Mixer, happening on Dec 4th at Writer’s Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. The focus of the panel is digital video/entertainment in 2008, in light of what happened in 07, AND the writers…

The 2008 International CES expo is a few weeks away, and we’re very happy to be a part of it, officially. We are a co-sponsor of a new Content@CES pavilion there, which is a must-attend hub for Hollywood, complete with meeting rooms and a lounge. Come see the companies that…

Much like we did a “Mid-Year Digital Media Review” in July, now we’re doing a year-end one, called 2007 Digital Media Review Mixer, on December 4th in Los Angeles. It will cover the deals and other activity in the industry, both online and mobile, primarily focused on the entertainment industry.…

With the broader market and tech in particular taking a beating today, our ContentNext Media Index (“ContentNextDex”), a collection of the top 100 content and related companies we follow, declined in suit. After being down more than 2.5 percent mid-session, the index came back to finish down 1.4 percent, with…

On the final panel at the Future of Business Media Conference, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali and paidContent.org executive editor Staci Kramer discussed the meaning of “disruption”, particularly as it relates to business and financial media. —What is Disruptive?: SeekingAlpha CEO David Jackson discussed how his company is changing…

The rush to feature all kinds of video has gripped all manner of content sites. But for business-oriented news sites, the issues involved require a more narrow focus. Listening to the comments from a discussion on the topic at the Future Of Business Media conference, the definition of business news…

With the launch of Fox Business Network earlier this month, CNBC is being watched more closely to see how they will meet the challenge. Staci Kramer, executive editor of ContentNext Media, had the chance to speak with Mark Hoffman, president of CNBC, at an afternoon panel for Future Of Business…

With the credit crunch causing uncertainty across all industries, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali spoke with a group of media dealmakers at the Future of Business Media Conference. While changing market conditions are obviously an issue, it’s just a part of the overall picture. Across the media landscape, there…

Over lunch at the Future of Business Media Conference, Neil Cavuto sat down with paidContent.org executive editor Staci Kramer and Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of ContentNext. Cavuto, of course, is quite busy these days, with the launch of Fox Business and his continued role at Fox News. A big…

Speakers on the Future Of Business Media conference’s advertising panel tended to agree that the pie for online advertising is continuing to rise, but certain slices are being sliced more thinly. Staci Kramer, executive editor for ContentNext Media Network, asked how the nature of online advertising is changing in the…

With the buyout of Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) nearing completion, Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz chatted with paidContent.org executive editor Staci Kramer, at the Future of Business Media conference. Discussion centered on the topics of the day: the merger, making the Journal free, the role of subscription revenue. —Wall…