Oprah Winfrey and sports site Deadspin had two of the year’s biggest stories this week and attracted millions of people to their websites. Too bad they didn’t have an ad plan in place. Read more »
Though the U.S. travel industry brings in $2 billion a year and employs 100 million people, Rafat Ali says there’s no one website where industry execs and business travelers can go for information. So he’s launching Skift, a website focused on travel news, data and services. Read more »
After discussing their recent travel plans, our founder Rafat Ali spoke with Rob Glaser, partner, Accel Partners / chairman, RealNetworks (N… Read more »
Yesterday I was part of CNET’s Reporters’ Roundtable, talking about the in-vogue topic of whether iPad will be a savior of newspapers and ma… Read more »
Highlights from Rafat Ali’s conversation with Demand Media’s Shawn Colo, Discovery’s Bruce Campbell, Associated Content’s Patrick Keane, Abo… Read more »
Last Friday at the Paley Center in NYC, at the Carnegie Journalism Educators Summit, I spoke on a panel on entrepreneurial journalism. Among… Read more »
What can you expect at paidContent 2010: Discussing the Economics of Content? Just what we promised when we announced our first namesake con… Read more »
At DLD yesterday in Munich, I interviewed Dennis Crowley, CEO and co-founder of the currently hot location-based service Foursquare. He touc… Read more »
Rafat will be interviewed today on the video site WatchMojo.com by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the site’s CEO. They will talk about the secrets t… Read more »
During the second session at our L.A. Year-End Digital Media Review and Mixer, our founder, publisher and editor Rafat Ali led a panel with… Read more »
Trust ContentNext to accomplish the impossible. We got a major network exec, the head of an indie digital studio and the SVP of digital at o… Read more »
Some thoroughly depressing news to start Monday morning: the founder of UK media research agency Enders expects the number of media jobs in… Read more »
ContentNext founder and publisher Rafat Ali appeared on Bloomberg’s TV channel in London on Friday morning, giving a frank forecast of the c… Read more »
Our own Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of ContentNext Media, took the main stage this morning at Mobile Entertainment Live to interview Joh… Read more »
In the EconCeleb panel concerning how new players are getting into the gossip cyberspace, Mike Dodge, SVP/GM, AtomicOnline; Tyler Goldman, C… Read more »
Users seeking celebrity news and content want something more, something deeper that they can socialize around, Tyler Goldman, CEO of Buzznet… Read more »
In a discussion about the future of ad agencies at EconAds, panelists talked about the steady growth in digital, the importance of laying ou… Read more »
At EconAds the final panel of the day took a step back and analyzed a big part of what keeps the ad business thriving, activity in VC and M&… Read more »
During this Q&A ad EconAds a few weeks ago, our founder, publisher and editor Rafat Ali interviewed Jo Ann Ross, president of network sales,… Read more »
Earlier this month at EconAds, Samir Arora, founder, chairman and CEO, Glam Media, talked with our founder, publisher and editor Rafat Ali a… Read more »
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) — will the deal happen? Will any deal happen? Those questions met with uncertain answers from… Read more »
Having been in the middle of some of the most significant digital media deals through her position as Allen & Co. Managing Director, Nancy P… Read more »
After plenty of talk about ad networks and digital incumbents, the day’s discussion at EconAds turned to the traditional agencies, and their… Read more »
Just before our first EconAds seminar at New World Stages in NYC started, Tech Confidential’s Mary Kathleen Flynn caught up with ContentNext… Read more »
“Would would you do if someone approached you with $1.3 billion?” That was the second attempt Rafat Ali, publisher & Co-Editor, ContentNext… Read more »
Stepping away from busy upfront negotiations, a sleep-deprived Jo Ann Ross, President, Network Sales, CBS (NYSE: CBS) talked with ContentNex… Read more »
Our publisher Rafat Ali is on stage at the Skirball Center auditorium in beautiful scenery here in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, kickin… Read more »
Some time around late summer last year, about six months after we moved into our (first-ever) office in Santa Monica, I realized we needed t… Read more »
On the final panel at the Future of Business Media Conference, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali and paidContent.org executive edit… Read more »
With the credit crunch causing uncertainty across all industries, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali spoke with a group of media dea… Read more »
Over lunch at the Future of Business Media Conference, Neil Cavuto sat down with paidContent.org executive editor Staci Kramer and Rafat Ali… Read more »
Picking up from where the Forbes panel discussion at Future Of Business Media left off, Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of ContentNext Media… Read more »
One year after Forbes sold a significant minority stake to Elevation Partners, Rafat Ali, ContentNext’s publisher and editor, opened the Fut… Read more »
The activities for our “Future of Business Media” conference started this evening in NYC. We had a fabulous reception of the attendees at th… Read more »