Verve Wireless Raises $7 Million More To Deliver The News Over Mobile
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Verve Wireless, which is helping hundreds of media companies worldwide create and monetize news applications for smartphones, said it has ra… Read more »
How Publishing And Advertising Are Redefining Media
It’s Advertising Week in New York and at many of the conferences and workshops the big topic is the blurring of the lines between of adverti… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.24.10
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» Was it Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) or bad business decisions that busted Blockbuster? (NYSE: BBI) Perhaps it was online video. [NewTee… Read more »
With Interest From AOL And Hearst, Solve Media Offers ‘CAPTCHA’ Ad Units
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Aside from pop-up ads perhaps, having to enter a “CAPTCHA” — the process of rewriting a barely readable piece of text to prove you’re not… Read more »
Hearst Promotes Town&Country ‘s Zimak To Oversee All Tablet Ads
Hearst Magazines has appointed sales exec Avi Zimak to run all the publisher’s tablet ads as it prepares to launch its “think tank” for apps… Read more »
Hearst Opening ‘Think Tank’ For Apps
As Hearst Magazines continues its app rollout through the end of this year, the publisher is opening an “App Lab” at its New York headquarte… Read more »
Next Issue Predicts $3 Billion Worth Of E-Paper Subs By 2014
There has been a lot of doubt about publishers’ hopes that tablet devices could help return magazines and newspapers to the days when scarci… Read more »
Chandra Out As CEO Of Hearst’s Kaboodle; Anne Zehren Named As Replacement
Manish Chandra, the founder and CEO of social shopping site Kaboodle, is leaving the company and is being succeeded by Anne Zehren. The chan… Read more »
Hearst Magazines Outlines Major App Rollout For Second Half Of 2010
Five days after releasing its iPad app version of Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazine says iTunes users have downloaded more than 10,000 copi… Read more »
Condé Nast’s Carey Defects To Hearst Magazines; Cathie Black Named Chairman
David Carey is leaving his post as group president at Condé Nast to become president of Hearst Magazines. Carey will succeed Cathie Black i… Read more »
News Corp. Acquires Skiff IP; Buys Stake In Brill And Crovitz Startup
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Updated: In a doubleheader announcement meant to move the needle on Rupert Murdoch’s ambitious paid content plans, News Corp has acquired th… Read more »
Esquire Hits 100,000 iPhone App Downloads — But Don’t Talk About Sales Yet
It took just six months, but Esquire magazine’s iPhone app has crossed a big threshold: it’s gotten 100,000 downloads of in Apple’s iTunes… Read more »
Done Deal: Hearst Buys iCrossing For $325 Million
Hearst has finally succeeded in buying search marketing specialist iCrossing, we have confirmed with a source familiar with the matter. The… Read more »
AOL Picks European Media Director Downing From Hearst Digital
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is tapping Hearst Digital’s digital services and development director Julian Downing to be its director of its AOL Media div… Read more »
Dubuc Succeeds Wong As Lifetime Head, Keeps History Channel
AETN makes the expected official: the programmer is staying inside when it comes to a successor for Andrea Wong as head of Lifetime. Nancy D… Read more »
Hearst Appears Close To Buying Digital Ad Firm iCrossing For $375 Million
It’s not a done deal yet, but after several months of negotiations, Hearst Corp. is close to buying digital marketing firm iCrossing, the WS… Read more »
quadrantONE Hires Datran’s Diez To Head Sales; CEO Search Begins Shortly
National newspaper online ad alliance quadrantONE has hired Datran’s Mario Diez to head up sales as it plans to launch a search for a new CE… Read more »
A Dozen National Broadcasters Align To Create One Mobile TV Network
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After working together for years through a trade association, a dozen broadcasters are now forming a financially-backed joint venture to dev… Read more »
QuadrantOne CEO Andy Ellenthal Resigning; Peer39 Possible Destination
Andy Ellenthal is leaving as CEO of quadrantONE, the national online newspaper ad alliance, paidContent has learned. Ellenthal, who was trav… Read more »
Hearst’s App Strategy: Adding More Needles To A Growing Haystack
Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plans to keep adding more and more. Most of the… Read more »
Video @ paidContent 2010: How To Make Money From Digital News
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business– so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob G… Read more »
Confirmed: Atex Buys Majority Stake In Classifieds Site Kaango
Atex, which provides software systems to media firms, has purchased a majority stake in classifieds site Kaango. Atex is buying the stake fr… Read more »
It’s Official: Dow Jones Acquires SmartMoney Stake From Hearst
As expected, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) has bought the remaining 50 percent stake in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst. The financial t… Read more »
Dow Jones In Negotiations With Hearst To Buy Remaining Half Of SmartMoney
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) wants to buy the 50 percent stake it doesn’t currently have in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst, the WSJ re… Read more »
The Other Stilleto Heel Drops: Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong Is Out
I don’t know anyone who thought it would last — and it didn’t. A few months after the August merger of Lifetime Networks into A&E Televisio… Read more »
Reversing The Trend, Meredith And Hearst Food Sites Go Web-To-Print
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The typical publishing story these days involves a print mag being shuttered to go web-only. But Meredith (NYSE: MDP) and Hearst are taking… Read more »
Media Measurement Consortium Adds Microsoft, Gannett, Hearst
The drive to increase membership for the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement , the research initiative formed by major TV networks, a… Read more »
Hearst’s Swartz: Newspaper Digital Content Strategy Seeks To Balance Free, Paid Access
Despite all the revenue declines and layoffs across the industry this past year, Steven Swartz (pictured), Hearst Newspapers president, had… Read more »
Esquire, GQ Apps To Be Sold Monthly; Hearst, Condé Nast Look To Apple As Another Virtual Newsstand
While Condé Nast has taken a more measured approach to distributing digitized versions of its magazines through the iTunes App Store, Hears… Read more »
MSN To Add Local Video Clips From NBC, Hearst
Microsoft’s MSN, which has made local content a focus as part of its recent home page redesign, is now adding local video clips to its pages… Read more »
New Digital Publishing Venture Boasts Access To 144 Million-Plus Audience; Squires Talks
Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). and Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) are making it formal: the five publishers are eq… Read more »
Magazine Consortium Will Launch With Five Partners: News Corp, Hearst, Time, Conde, Meredith
Updated with more about News Corp. The much-discussed magazine consortium will be announced early next week (it looks like Tuesday at this p… Read more »
Hearst’s Skiff Plans To Set Sail Next Year With E-Reader Platform, Devices — And Sprint Deal
Forget First Paper. The incubated startup Hearst is looking to as a digital content savior is now Skiff, LLC, although the better name might… Read more »
Time Inc. Close To Magazine JV With Rival Publishers
After weeks of talks and trial balloons, is Time Inc. actually close to signing a deal with other Conde Nast, Hearst and possibly other majo… Read more »
Hearst Plans To Use $1 Billion War Chest For Acquisitions
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Hearst Corp., which has been fairly quiet on the M&A front recently, may have decided that now is the time to dive in. Citing unidentified s… Read more »
Get Ready To Hear About How Great Magazines Are For Advertising
With the magazine business hurting, Hearst, Time Inc. and Wenner Media are teaming up for a little self promotion. Mediaweek reports. Read more »
Mag Profits Drying Up As Readers Go Online
Even if there wasn’t a recession this year, 2009 was always going to be a crunch year for B2B and consumer magazine publishers, given the pu… Read more »
Hearst’s UGO Fills Some Empty Exec Seats, But CEO Post Remains Vacant
As UGO.com, the Hearst-owned male-centric entertainment site, continues to look for a new CEO, it has filled in some other blank spaces in i… Read more »
Esquire Spends Six Figures On Interactive Print Edition
Esquire last year used E-Ink for its “digital cover” in an effort to showcase the potential for fusing magazines and technology. Now, the He… Read more »
Hearst Debuts Automated Topics Site LMK.com
Hearst is launching a new media brand this morning and it’s not a magazine, a newspaper or a TV show. LMK.com — as in “Let me know” — is… Read more »
