Nielsen: Nearly Half Of Americans Are Watching Online Video
One of the reasons online video is the fastest growing ad segment is because nearly half of all Americans are watching some form of streamin… Read more »
Google Aims For More Video Ad Dominance With New DoubleClick Tool
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is fully releasing its DoubleClick for Publishers Video ad serving tools after a year of beta testing, as the company lo… Read more »
Samsung Inks Deal With Yandex For Smart TV, Bada Mobile Services In Russia
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Looks like Russia’s search giant Yandex is following in Google’s footsteps once again. Yandex is taking its services to new screens by inkin… Read more »
LocalResponse Raises $5 Million For ‘Check-In’ Ads
LocalResponse, the “check-in” ad network formerly known as Buzzd, has raised $5 million to build up its sales team as it tries to attract ag… Read more »
Johnston Outsourcing Another Online Classifieds Service: Local Video Ads
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Johnston Press will use a startup run by a former Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) executive to serve rich media ads across its 273 news sites.
It… Read more »
For The Towns With No Newspaper, Online Upstarts Try Filling A Gap
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A TV producer, a rugby club and and a university are the latest players to try filling a content gap in Neath and Port Talbot, the south Wal… Read more »
Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything
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Gannett’s MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the c… Read more »
Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From Being A Cash Cow
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more »
HuffPo Partners With Le Monde, LNEI On French Edition
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The Huffington Post is planning a French edition — Le Huffington Post — with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde… Read more »
BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
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Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-06-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Co-Founder And Chairman Steve Jobs Has Died (paidContent)
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The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
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» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
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Angry Birds Aside, Think Globally, Act Locally When It Comes To Mobile Apps
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There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s… Read more »
Pew: Mobile Is Only A “Secondary” Channel For Local News; Apps Very Niche
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that w… Read more »
DailyCandy Deals Teams With NBCU Sibling LX.TV On Video Series
Women’s fashion and lifestyle e-newsletter and deals network DailyCandy is unveiling its first foray into broadband video through its partne… Read more »
Amid Promises Of Profitability, AOL Patch Sales Head Defects To Google
Scott Colontonio is leaving AOL’s hyperlocal network Patch after little over a year to join Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Business Insider reports. T… Read more »
Update: Google Buys Groupon Clone And Launches Wallet In Quest For Commerce
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read more »
Associated Press Teams With 40 Newspapers On Mobile Coupons
With newspapers having suffered through 20 straight quarters of decline — and no end in sight — a collaborative effort on the part of the… Read more »
Gannett’s Dubow Taking Medical Leave Again
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow is once again taking medical leave, the company said in a short, late afternoon press relea… Read more »
Changes Ahead For Millennial Media? Tech Veteran Isaac Babbs Starts As SVP
Millennial Media is one of the larger independent mobile ad companies around, and now there are signs that it could be looking to take its b… Read more »
Everyday Health Puts Ex-ABC News Digital Head Slavin In Charge Of Video
Wellness news and info online network Everyday Health has been working on expanding its video content to TV for a while and it now has exec… Read more »
Kantar: Ad Spending Still Growing, But Recovery Is In Jeopardy
While most large ad budgets have been locked in for the next few months, unless there is a miraculous and quick economic turnaround, the ad… Read more »
Google Acquires Zagat. Will The Service Now Become Free?
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its push into local content with its acquisition of Zagat, which started out as a New York City restaurant… Read more »
Once Display’s Ad Sales Leader, Trends Now Favor Yahoo Rivals
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Barring some explosive revelation, Carol Bartz is out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) because she couldn’t show any way up. During the Q2 earni… Read more »
Does Google Only Listen If The New York Times Calls Them Out?
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Yesterday the New York Times ran an article that addresses what is becoming a rather serious issue in the local online marketing space.
The… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-02-11
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» As Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Price Change Kicks In, Starz Says It Won’t Renew Deal (paidContent)
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WaPo Shutting Most Local Bureaus; No Layoffs Planned
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With the Washington Post continuing to struggle against declining revenues and circulation numbers, the newspaper has decided to close seven… Read more »
Gannett Expands Yahoo Ad Alliance To All Its Local TV Stations
A little over a year after Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) teamed up on local ads sales primarily for the publisher’s 81 communit… Read more »
Updated: Sale Ending Soon? Yelp Rethinks Its Daily Deals Service
The rapid growth of me-too daily deal services was bound to see a turn at some point, and it looks like that moment has come. Today, it emer… Read more »
Deal Or No Deal? Facebook Shuts Down Daily Deals, But Keeps Check-In Deals?
Another social media service bites the dust. Facebook has today announced that it is shutting down Facebook Deals, a daily deals service tha… Read more »
From Russia With Love, Another Samsung Galaxy Legal Complaint
Samsung has so far fended off attempts by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to keep it from selling Galaxy devices in Europe — but now it has another foe… Read more »
Foursquare Adds Checkins For Movies, Concerts, ESPN Sports
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Sometimes what’s important is what you’re doing, not where you are (I should write Hallmark cards, right?). If you’re going to the movies, f… Read more »
Local News Site Capital NY Raises $1.7 Million, Staffs Up
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Capital New York, a year-old news site that covers “how things work in New York,” has raised $1.7 million and is staffing up, including thre… Read more »
Consumers Are Getting Savvier About Behavioral Targeting
There is a clothing store, Syms, that has forever had the tagline for their advertising “An Educated Consumer Is Our Best Customer”. A noble… Read more »
Pulse Beats The Drum For International Growth, Signs Up Al Jazeera
Pulse, the news-reading app for iOS and Android devices, has signed up its first international partner, and it’s a biggie: Al Jazeera will b… Read more »
Fueled By Ad Gains, TPM To Broaden Political Coverage
In a series of bids to expand its base of traffic and advertising, Talking Points Memo wants to be viewed as more than just a politics news… Read more »
Brooklyn’s Latest Local News Site Aims For Gritty, Not Trendy
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The world isn’t lacking for news about Brooklyn’s artisanal pickles, flea markets and beekeeping, but a new site, Brooklyn Bureau, aims to f… Read more »
As Riots Spread In London, RIM Will ‘Assist Police’. PS3 Also Playing Role?
As the sun goes down on London, the riots that started in the north of the city a few days ago in response to a shooting have spread to a nu… Read more »
Yahoo Teams With Belo On TV Stations Display Sales
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will expand its display ad sales deal with local TV station operator Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) to 15 of the Dallas-based bro… Read more »
Will Businesses Really Use Foursquare’s New Self-Serve Check-In?
I will warn you on this one. I have tried to be a location-based services user but I lose interest real quickly. My erratic check-ins at res… Read more »
