Shopkick Partners With InStyle Magazine, Toys R Us
Shopkick, the location-based mobile app that rewards users for walking into stores, is announcing a few new partnerships today, its first bi… Read more »
Industry Moves: E! News; The Orchard; Kenshoo
– E! News: Cyndi McClellan and John Najarian have seen the expansion of their roles. McClellan has been promoted to president of network st… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-12-11
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» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-11-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock (paidContent)
» News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact,… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-11-11: Riots/BBM; Android/Adobe; Sprint; OpenFeint
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– BlackBerry/London riots: As Prime Minister David Cameron considers whether social med… Read more »
Mobile Advertising: Personalized Ads, Coupons Score With Users
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The controversy about location-tracking on mobile devices, and the subsequent emphasis on location-based services in mobile advertising, may… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-10-11
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» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Shakes Off Apple’s Shackles With Its Kindle Cloud Reader App (paidContent)
» Angry Birds Spread… Read more »
Some Bright Spots For AOL, Yes, But Also More Gloom Ahead
AOL (NYSE: AOL) offered some positive signs in its earnings release this morning — total advertising dollars rose for the first time since… Read more »
Demand Media Buys IndieClick, RSS Graffiti; Expands Google Ad Deal
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In addition to releasing its Q2 earnings today, content aggregator Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made two acquisitions: it’s bought a long-ru… Read more »
Cablevision Loses More Video Subs; Adds iPhone, Touch Apps
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Like its MSO rivals, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) saw more subscribers disappear, though it thinks it has a plan to retain the customers don’t le… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-09-11
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» Why the Web’s New TV-Style Ratings Might Not Mean More Ad Buys (AdAge)
» The Onion’s CTO: Our paywall experiment i… 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 »
The Morning Lowdown 08-08-11
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» News Corp.’s Soft Power in the U.S. (David Carr/NYT)
» 20% of the UK online population use iPlayer. Here’s how the… Read more »
NYTimes.com Opens Research Project Beta620 To The Public
The NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) is rolling out a “new features” site beta620 to the public in a bid to solicit more involvement on the site’s fe… Read more »
Comparing News Sites On Revenue Per Customer
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We’ve seen lots of consternation over numbers recently. Take Groupon’s foggy (more opaque than fuzzy) math now being dissected by the SEC. D… Read more »
How I Got Early Access To Pottermore.com
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It’s the sixth day of the contest to get early access to Pottermore.com, J. K. Rowling’s exclusive, interactive Harry Potter e-bookstore, wh… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-05-11
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Fires Back At Microsoft’s Patent Offer: ‘We Didn’t Fall For It’ (paidContent)
» With Negativity… Read more »
Viacom’s Dauman: Streaming Deals Will Keep Affiliate Fees Rising
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Although Viacom’s stock, along with most everyone else’s, has been battered in recent days by the market declines the past few days, it migh… Read more »
McCann Worldgroup Buys UK Interactive Design Agency AllofUS
Despite the emergence of larger display formats that are meant, in part, to foster more creativity, most online advertising is still keyword… Read more »
Augme Buys Mobile Marketer Hipcricket For $44.5 Million
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Augme Technologies is acquiring fellow mobile marketing company Hipcricket for $44.5 million. The deal reflects what’s likely to be increasi… Read more »
Discovery Rises On Advertising, Higher Affiliate Fees
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) usually holds its Q2 earnings in the days after its flagship channel’s annual Shark Week hit programm… Read more »
comScore Acquires Analytics Firm AdXpose
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Audience analytics firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is acquiring ad campaign effectiveness firm AdXpose for $22 million in a mostly stock-based tr… 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 »
Why We Need A Bloomberg Terminal For Advertising Data
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I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about data recently and it’s become the central investment thesis for kbs+p Ventures, our go to ma… Read more »
Time Inc. To Add Tablet Editions For All Mags; Strikes B&N Deal
A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editio… Read more »
Comcast Loses Video Subs But Revs Rise For Cable, NBCU
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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) was unable to escape cable industry trends of basic video subscriber losses, though it did have some success in adding… Read more »
Time Warner Film Dollars Rise On Video Game Hits; Mags Gain A Bit
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Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) saw profits and revenues boosted by movie sequels, but did even better thanks to video games tied to film franchises… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-03-11
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» Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) circulation chief calculates, by platform, the news people will pay for (Poynter/Rick Edmonds)
»&nb… Read more »
CBS Moonves: More Digital Streaming Deals Suggest More Gains In Q3
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) CEO Les Moonves began the call by touting the international expansion of its streaming video deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX),… Read more »
Digital Comprises 15 Percent Of CBS’ Simon & Schuster Revenues
Digital revenues more than doubled last year’s Q2 digital sales for CBS’ publishing unit Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) and accounted for 15 p… Read more »
CBS’ Digital Streaming Helps Boost Entertainment Revenue
CBS’ entertainment revenues were up 10 percent in Q2, with much of the credit going to an April licensing deal for streaming video with Netf… Read more »
Spanfeller Media Group Raises $6 Million Second Round
Spanfeller Media Group, which runs foodie site The Daily Meal has secured a $6 million second round funding led by VantagePoint Capital Part… Read more »
Glamour Looks To Mobile And Social For September Print Promotion
The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour’s l… Read more »
Sirius Profits Surge, Raises Expectations For Subscriber Numbers
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Despite the aggressive growth of personalized, “online radio” offerings such as Pandora (NYSE: P) and Spotify, which recently arrived in the… Read more »
Citing Traffic Success, PBS Adds Pre-Roll, Considers UK Offering
U.S. viewers watched more than 145 million videos across all of PBS’s web and mobile platforms, making the non-profit broadcaster the 15th m… Read more »
Condé Nast Digital Mags Drew Nearly 250K Downloads Since May
Condé Nast has managed to attract 242,000 digital edition customers within a six-week period after introducing subscriptions on Apple’s App… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-01-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Launching New iPhone in October, Not September (AllThingsD)
» The New Yorker now has 100,000 iPa… Read more »
AOL HuffPo Hires Christina Norman To Lead Video, Black Voices
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) is following last week’s stunning ouster of ad chief Jeff Levick with something that has become as routine as personnel shak… Read more »
Updated: Prometheus CEO Beckman’s Role Diminished? Not So, He Says
Richard Beckman, the publishing vet who was tapped early on by the group of investors that paid an estimated $80 million to buy Nielsen’s b2… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-29-11
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Alibaba reach Alipay agreement (Release)
» Artists’ Family Fails To Recapture Copyrights For… Read more »
