For Brand Advertising, Data Still Trumps Creative
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The latest figures for online ad spending looked pretty good for the first half of the year, but as the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s rep… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-28-11
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» James Rubin Abruptly Departs Bloomberg (NYT/Media Decoder)
» Publishers’ Digital Download Hopes Rise Ahead Of Kindl… Read more »
Video: Google’s Schmidt, Page Answer ‘Really Hard Questions’ At Zeitgeist
At Google’s Zeitgeist Americas conference, Larry Page spent a good amount of time on stage — maybe one of the longest appearances he has ma… Read more »
Google India Ropes In A Bollywood Superstar To Promote Google+
Google India head Rajan Anandan yesterday announced in a press conference that it has joined hands with the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Kha… Read more »
paidContent Advertising Video: Flipboard’s McCue Wants To Paginate The Web
One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with th… Read more »
Is Facebook A Guardian Or Gatekeeper?
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As if to prove that Facebook’s F8 announcements were truly seismic we are still feeling the aftershocks now. Interestingly, though, it is Sp… Read more »
Facebook Wins First Round In Fight With Teachbook
Facebook’s efforts to dispatch upstart social networking sites that use “book” in their names got a boost this week when a federal judge ref… Read more »
About Group Restructures Guide Operations Team; 15 Gone, 10 Being Added
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.’s About Group is reorganizing the way its Guide teams operate, as new CEO Darline Jean charts a path out… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-27-11
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» Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up (paidContent)
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Gains Dream… Read more »
China’s ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China’s ‘YouTube’ 56.com
A fusion of social and video in China… Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded… Read more »
Netflix Gains DreamWorks Animation But Faces Stiffer Competition In Brazil
I don’t know many video subscribers — TV or or streaming — who make decisions based on whether or not their package includes Shrek 2. But… Read more »
I Made The Wrong Choice With Facebook
Yes, the new Facebook changes have caused a typical storm of user outrage: “You’ve changed things! How dare you!”
But I think this storm is… Read more »
TechMediaNetwork Raises $33 Million For Acquisitions
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Tech and science publisher TechMediaNetwork has raised $33 million in a second round as it looks to add its content roster with a series of… 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 »
The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks (NYT)
» Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company… Read more »
How The Social Web Has Rewired The Digital World From The Ground Up
In the wake of Facebook’s F8 mega-event, with its parade of product, feature and platform announcements, I’m struck by the recent major infl… Read more »
Tencent Weibo Launches English Version, Goes Bilingual Faster than Sina
While surfing around Tencent Weibo today, we realized something unique about the Chinese microblogging site – it has launched an option to… Read more »
paidContent Advertising: Google’s Mohan: Display Can Be $200 Billion Biz
Neal Mohan thinks display advertising can be a $200 billion business and that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is uniquely positioned to help make it so.… Read more »
Groupon’s Funky Friday: New COO Goes Back To Google; Numbers Revised
Once again, Groupon is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Margo Georgiadis, hired as COO only five months ago, is going back to Google (… Read more »
Netflix Craves Facebook, Tells Congress: Scrap Video Privacy Law
Poor Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). On top of its other problems, an arcane law is spoiling its chance to participate in a new form of Facebook fun t… Read more »
Dish Aims To Keep, Gain Subs With ‘Blockbuster Movie Pass’; Thanks, Netflix
The timing of the Dish Network’s and Blockbuster’s introduction of new a streaming video venture couldn’t be more perfect. With Netflix (NSD… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-23-11
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» @ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’ (paidContent)
» @ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Us… 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 »
@ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Users’ Whole Lives, But To What End?
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Share and share alike. The Mark Zuckerberg philosophy now extends way beyond users’ occasional, individual sharing actions. Facebook wants u… Read more »
@ F8: Can Facebook’s Social Discovery Set Media Alight?
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) could double its own projected growth rate by feeding out viewers’ usage habits to Facebook, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings,… Read more »
Spotify’s Levick: Facebook Integration Will Help Drive Ad Strategy
Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being… Read more »
R.E.M.ix: ‘It’s The End Of TV As We Know It’
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“I’d studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines,” Michael Stipe once sang, vicariously, as though channelling Dan Rather.
R… Read more »
Time Warner’s Bewkes: ‘Cordcutting Hasn’t Arrived’
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Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Tim… Read more »
@ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’
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Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers enc… Read more »
@ F8: Highlights From Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote Address
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It’s Facebook’s morning in Silicon Valley, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage for the company’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco… Read more »
Love It Or Hate It, Business Insider Raises $7 Million Round
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Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a… Read more »
Following Google+’s Public Opening, AdSense Display Ads Get A ‘+1′
With all the hype about Facebook’s F8 conference dominating social media news this week, Google+, the search giant’s social network, has qui… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
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» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent)
» Documentary Streamer Snagfilm… Read more »
BSkyB, Eurostar, BT Buy Twitter’s First UK Advertising
Twitter was due to roll out its first advertising for testing in the UK on Thursday, with more to come in the next few weeks, marking the ne… Read more »
Documentary Streamer SnagFilms Adds Drama, Wider Mobile Distribution
Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 mil… Read more »
Cooking The Data Is The New Cooking The Books
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At this week’s Strata Conference in New York, there’s a lot of discussion about data transparency. As masses of easily available, quickly an… Read more »
Twitter Now Accepts Political Ads; Acquires Julpan
As the 2012 campaign for the White House starts heating up, Twitter says it will start accepting political advertising. Starting today, cand… Read more »
With Update, Facebook Is Aiming To Be More Social
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Mark Zuckerberg must have something big up his sleeve for Thursday’s f8. Facebook on Tuesday night unveiled the third – and biggest – up… Read more »
Pandora Website Revamp Bets On Turning ‘Listeners’ Into ‘Viewers’
Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it’s overhauled its we… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent)
» Andreessen’s Ning Finds… Read more »
