Industry Moves: Main Street Connect; NatGeo; Twelvefold; uSamp; Kenshoo
– Main Street Connect Two appointments to the executive team: John Londono as COO/CTO and Karin Annus as chief content officer. A two-time… Read more »
Samsung's Anti-Apple Campaign Appears To Be Working
photo: Samsung
Samsung phones overtook iPhone for U.S. brand perception in the week after Samsung launched a TV campaign mocking hipster fanboys and iPhone… Read more »
Industry Moves: JumpTime; Sociable Labs; Performics; MediaBrix
– JumpTime: Elizabeth Osder joins as SVP of strategy and business development. Reporting to co-founder and CEO Michele DiLorenzo, Osder wil… Read more »
How Fast Is Local Ad Market Growing? Depends How You Define 'Local'
photo: Corbis / Eric Cahan
So much that happens in the online space is dependent upon measurement. The ability to measure results also greatly influences the ability t… Read more »
Apple's Leagues Ahead In App Downloads: 18 Billion To Android's 10 Billion
A timely news announcement from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) one week after Google’s own Android apps milestone: Apple says that 500,000 apps have now… Read more »
AOL Looks Internally For New Head Of Sales, Promotes Jim Norton
Another executive move at AOL (NYSE: AOL), which has seen a fair few of them in the last several months: the company today announced that it… Read more »
Twitter's New Look Means More Relevance For Users and Advertisers
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Twitter right now can feel like a playground for a high priesthood of celebrities, marketers and journalists. Today, as part of an effort to… Read more »
Updated: YouMail App Yanked From Android Market After T-Mobile Complains
Update: YouMail’s app is back in the Android Market after some more communication between the voicemail company and T-Mobile. That revealed… Read more »
Netshelter Launches New RSS-Style Ad Format For Blogs
The blog ad network NetShelter, which counts with hundreds of technology blogs and some 4,800 bloggers among the sites for which it sells ad… Read more »
Zenith: Display Proves Resilient In '11, Looks Robust In '12
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The “quadrennial” events of the Olympics, the national U.S. political races, thew European Football Championship, along with the recovery of… Read more »
Updated: Report: Facebook Buys Location Sharing App Gowalla?
photo: Robert Scoble
More mobile movements from Facebook today: it has bought the check-in social media service Gowalla, according to a report in CNN. Read more »
One Pressing Question For Time Inc's Lang: What To Do About Apple
When Digitas head Laura Lang starts her new job as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) in January, she’s not only going to be filling the nine mont… Read more »
Android Store Opens In Oz, But It Won't Have The Galaxy Tab 10.1 Just Yet
One superstore step forward for Android in Australia, but another step back for Android-maker Samsung. Today saw what could be Google’s answ… Read more »
Industry Moves: Vuguru; BBC; Vevo; Jun Group; MWW
– Vuguru: The independent studio founded by Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company has hired entertainment veteran Scott Nocas as head of distri… Read more »
Adobe's Acquisition Binge Continues With Purchase Of Efficient Frontier
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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) began the month by buying online video ad manager Auditude and now it’s bring November to a close with the acquisition of… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more »
Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab The All-Clear But Is It Too Late?
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A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in Australia: today, an appeals court unanimous… Read more »
About.com Rolls Out Lifestyle Content On Flipboard
As the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.-owned About Group continues its turnaround efforts in the face of weak display and cost-per-click ad s… Read more »
Twitter Buys Mobile Security Firm Whisper Systems: Enterprise Push Coming?
Another step in Twitter’s mobile acquisition trail: the microblogging and messaging service has acquired Whisper Systems, a enterprise mobil… Read more »
Rolling Stone Releasing Beatles' Guide For iPad; Mag Apps Coming In '12
Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, a… Read more »
DailyCandy Looks To Closer Ties Between E-Commerce And Ad Sales
With last week’s hiring of Gilt City’s Fernando Romero, as VP of ad sales of women’s lifestyle guide DailyCandy, the company has decided tha… Read more »
Prometheus Execs Make Their Exodus, As Billboard Searches For Direction
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Over the past few weeks, as Prometheus Global Media, the owner of b-to-b trade magazines Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Back… Read more »
NYT Launches Group Digital Subscriptions For Companies
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The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies a… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-18-11
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» Yelp Files to Raise $100 Million in IPO of Consumer-Review Internet Site (Bloomberg)
» Has The Kindle Fire Already… Read more »
Major Newspaper Publishers Band Together On Social Shopping Portal
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A group of eight newspaper publishers — Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett (NYSE: GCI), Hearst, MediaNews Gr… Read more »
Condé Nast Partners With Art.com To Reopen Online Image Store
photo: Saul Steinberg, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Store
Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a… Read more »
Next Issue Media Expands Digital Newsstand Beyond Samsung Galaxy
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more »
Video Ad Networks BrightRoll, YuMe Raise New Millions
As online video’s growth shows no sign of slowing down, broadband video ad network BrightRoll has raised a $30 million third round to extend… Read more »
Ex-Myspace CEO Mike Jones' New Company Is Part VC Firm, Part Digital Studio
Barely two months after slowly exiting Myspace as its last CEO under News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), Mike Jones is debuting his new company, Science… Read more »
Boxee's Latest Cord-Cutter Tool: A Cable Set-Top Box 'Stick'
While much of the reason behind cable-subscriber losses have largely been related to the poor housing market and the weak economy, even larg… Read more »
Mobile Consolidation As Velti Buys MIG For Up To $54 Million
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Some big consolidation is afoot in mobile marketing and technology services with San Francisco-based Velti buying London’s UK market-leading… Read more »
The Story Behind ShopCity And Its Antitrust Complaint Against Google
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An “upstart competitor” is claiming Google (NSDQ: GOOG) punted it to the farthest reaches of its search results and is now fighting to level… Read more »
HBO And Sports Illustrated Website To Build Buzz A Year Ahead Of TV Series
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport i… Read more »
Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more »
Interview: Nokia Marketers On How They Are Selling Their Windows Phone
Nokia’s marketing campaign for its first ever Windows Phone handsets is its costliest ever, with a budget three times the size of any previo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-15-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions (paidContent)
» Gartner: And… Read more »
More Turmoil At Newsweek/Daily Beast As Three Top Executives Exit
IAC (NSDQ: IACI) CEO Barry Diller told investors this summer that the company could tolerate the continued losses at the combined Newsweek/D… Read more »
USA Today Acquires Mixed-Martial Arts Site MMAjunkie
photo: Flickr/Stefan Tell
USA Today is continuing to try to build up its digital side, as the print business struggles on, with another purchase designed to appeal to… Read more »
Disney Buys Mom Blog Network Babble Media
photo: Real Girls Media
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company is expanding its interactive division’s “parenting portfolio” with the acquisition of mom blog network B… Read more »
Industry Moves: Safari Books Online; Compass Labs; Mesa; SocialVolt
– Safari Books Online: Andrew Savikas has been appointed CEO of Safari Books Online, a joint venture of O’Reilly Media and Pearson (NYSE: P… Read more »
