AOL ad sales go on growing, but U.S. display ‘off-tune’
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong promised improvements in U.S. display ad sales processes, after international growth embarrassed domestic declines. Read more »
DirecTV adds another 600,000 Latin American users in Q1
DirecTV continued to reap the benefits of Latin American expansion in Q1, increasing revenue in the region by 33 percent while providing a role model for other subscription-based media companies like Netflix who are also endeavoring the expense of southern infiltration. Still, investors remain unimpressed. Read more »
WaPo digital revenue drops in Q1
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The Washington Post Co. newspaper division continues to struggle, nearly doubling its operating loss with drops in print circulation and advertising — and digital ad sales aren’t picking up the slack. The company may to reevaluate its no paywall’ stance. Read more »
Amazon earnings down, but Kindle, media sales on fire
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Amazon’s earnings were down during its first quarter, but both revenue and profit came in much higher than investors had expected on the back of another strong quarter for the company’s electronic sales efforts. Read more »
Tipping point season – digital sales bolster analogue
InformationWeek publisher and events organiser UBM on Wednesday became the latest to report what is now becoming a trend. Read more »
Blinkx will miss video ad sales predictions
As the online video opportunity booms, video index and advertising firm Blinkx is growing fast – but not quite as fast as had been expected, as revenue for the last 12 months fell slightly behind analysts’ expectations.. Read more »
Thanks To E-Books, Publishers Find Flat Is The New Up
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Large book publishers’ most recent earnings reports reflect a new normal: Revenues are roughly flat, but profits are up — in large part due… Read more »
Axel Springer Fears Public Media Apps Will Blunt Digital Tipping Point
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Online advertising and new content fees have helped Europe’s largest news publisher become the latest to reach a print-to-digital tipping po… Read more »
Martha Stewart Turns To iPad Editions, Video As Revenues Fall
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As revenues fall, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) plans to focus on some digital initiatives at its magazines, including releasi… Read more »
Call Of Duty Subscriptions Helped Fuel Vivendi
Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard says it will launch further direct consumer premium digital channels after the success of its Call Of Duty… Read more »
ITV Has Turned Around Online Fortunes With VOD, Next Comes New News Site
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UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a bold new news website this spring, will start trialling its delayed “Pay Player” this M… Read more »
Interview: UBM CEO Says Print Sell-Offs Complete, Digital Tip Point Ahead
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UBM CEO David Levin tells paidContent the business publisher is done with off-loading content businesses for now and is about to see online… Read more »
Pearson Sees Digital Income Beating Print Publishing In 2012
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Pearson’s digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin’s e-book… Read more »
FT Digital Subscriptions Surpass Print In U.S. As Sign-Ups Slow
The Financial Times is still signing up new digital subscribers, but at the slowest rate since iPad lit up its business model in mid-2010. 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 »
Informa To Launch E-Book Portal As B2B Publishers Push Toward Digital
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Two business information publishers are reporting improving fortunes after pushing their print media portfolio toward digital subscription o… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Misses Estimates, Though In-Store Sales Rise Slightly
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to advance a narrative of momentum and the power of bricks-and-mortar bookstores in its third-quarter earni… Read more »
B&N Comes Down To Kindle Fire’s Level With 8 GB, $199 Nook Tablet
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Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet–8 G… Read more »
Demand Media Rides Out Storm, Improves Earnings
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) appears to be weathering executive churn and a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) downgrade. On Thursday, it posted earnings that… Read more »
Latin America Drives DirecTV’s Growth; 590K New Subs In 3 Months
DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) continues to provide a useful blueprint for other U.S. media companies looking to expand into Latin America. On Thursday… Read more »
Comcast’s 17,000 Lost Cable Subs In Q4 Is Its Lowest Drop In 5 Years
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The bleeding has finally slowed for Comcast’s cable business. Reporting its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings Wednesday, the Philadelphi… 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 »
News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million
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News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends. Read more »
Windows Work? ‘Harry Potter’ DVD Sales help Drive Time Warner’s Q4 Profits
Delaying DVD and Blu-ray rental releases to outlets including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox made the magic of Harry Potter even more poten… Read more »
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more »
McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, Touts Digital Investments
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McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts’ predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an ove… Read more »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… 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 »
BT Overhauling Vision As It Maintains Summer YouView Launch Forecast
BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000.
N… Read more »
NYT Co Sees Drop In Earnings But 20% Rise In Digital Subs
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Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which i… Read more »
Sony’s New CEO Sets ‘Clear Path’, And Unveils Big Losses
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Sony’s new president and CEO has quite a task on his hands. A day after Kazuo Hirai was appointed to replace Howard Stringer, who remains as… Read more »
AOL Q4: Ads Up By 10%; Beats Street Estimates But Still Slumping
AOL (NYSE: AOL) today reported that its strategy to turn around its advertising business is definitely paying off, with sale up by 10 percen… Read more »
Amazon: Print Book Unit Sales Up; More Content For Prime
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift… Read more »
Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more »
As Sky Growth Slows, Can Internet Defend It From Downturn And New Rivals?
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growt… Read more »
Gannett Misses Earnings Targets On Special Charges, Digital Revenue Up
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workfo… Read more »
Nokia Tottering At The Top Of Mobile Rankings; Apple Leading Smartphones
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With most of the major handset makers having reported earnings for the quarter that ended in December, analyst houses are laying out their r… Read more »
Samsung: Smartphones Up 30 Percent But You Have To Guess How Many We Sold
Samsung may be king of the Android smartphone world, but it’s playing hard to get. The company declined to release smartphone sales figures… Read more »
