Time Inc’s Health.com Partners With RightHealth On Ads, Content
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Warner Bros. Emphasizes Mobile, Hires Farsi To Head Efforts
Warner Bros. Entertainment is putting mobile higher on the agenda by hiring Natalie Farsi to head mobile business efforts. Farsi will report… Read more »
MLBAM, Fox, Turner Partner On Postseason.TV Video Subscription Package
An intriguing cross-site and cross-platform partnership between MLBAM and post-season rightsholders Turner Sports and Fox Sports: Postseason… Read more »
Time Inc Isn’t For Sale, Only Until It Is…
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So as we suspected, Time Warner has shot down any speculation about the immediate future of Time Inc: CEO Jeff Bewkes told Jeffrey Goldberg… Read more »
Updated: The Hulu Complex: Mag Industry Looking At Its Own JV, Headed by Time Inc
Updated twice below: Everyone wants a Hulu now, nevermind that Hulu’s own long term future isn’t necessarily fully secure. First was Vevo, m… Read more »
CNN Launches CNN Go, Travel/Lifestyle Website Focussed On Six Asian Cities
CNN is expanding its footprint in Asia on the web. The broadcaster has launched CNN Go, a travel and lifestyle website focussing on six Asia… Read more »
Perlman’s OnLive Raises Double-Digit Funding From AT&T, Warner Bros., Others
OnLive, the connected gaming technology company founded by *Apple* alum Steve Perlman, just received a major dose of credibility in the form… Read more »
JP Morgan: AOL’s Value Pegged At Just $4.2 Billion
In answer to all the speculation about how much AOL (NYSE: TWX) is worth as Time Warner gets closer to spinning the unit off, JP Morgan anal… Read more »
Warner Bros. Tests VOD Release Of Some New Movies Before DVD
Warner Bros. may be trying to keep its new DVD releases away from Redbox and *Netflix* until it’s had about a month to sell them in stores,… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former YouTube Ad Exec Shashi Seth To Head AOL’s Global Ad Products
Another Googler has landed at AOL… The latest is former YouTube monetization head Shashi Seth, who will now serve as SVP for Global Ad Pro… Read more »
CNN Launching Pay iPhone App; Live Streaming For $2 Plus Ads
While *Dow Jones* follows through with plans to convert some of its iPhone and BlackBerry free app users to paid subscribers, CNN is jumping… Read more »
Interview: AOL’s Levick: Still Shopping; Ad Exchange Model Not A Fit
Taking a break between panel discussions at Advertising Week in New York, AOL’s Jeff Levick, president of Global Advertising and Strategy, o… Read more »
Vodafone Completes Major Label Set With DRM-Free Warner Tracks
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) now has a full set of major labels supplying DRM-free tracks to its music download store. The operator has added Warner… Read more »
Interview: AOL’s Armstrong: You’re Going To See More Changes
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Following a roundtable breakfast with the new *AOL* to kick off Advertising Week, I caught up with CEO Tim Armstrong and got in a few questi… Read more »
Former Bebo Exec Shields Partnering On Content Company With Shine’s Murdoch
Former AOL (NYSE: TWX) exec Joanna Shields and Shine Group Chairman and CEO Elisabeth Murdoch on are creating a content company from the gro… Read more »
Communacopia Highlights: Bewkes On TV Everywhere, Diller On Bewkes, And More
The Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference has wrapped up day two of the three-day CEO-fest. Here’s a sampling of notable comments from… Read more »
Updated: Parsons To Providence: Former Time Warner Chairman May Be Back In Deal Fray
Providence Equity Partners has a penchant for media and entertainment investments like Hulu, Warner Music, YES and Univision — and for addi… Read more »
CNN Wire Launches A La Carte Store For Text Reports
If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched… Read more »
AOL Tosses Out COO Partoll, Search And Local Head Kannapel
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AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong is looking for ways to trim the company’s costs and today, he started with two top execs: COO Kim Partoll… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Viasat Sweden, Bebo Series, Pirate Bay
– Viasat: The London-based Swedish satcaster has added catch-up programming from its TV4 and SVT channels to its Viasat OnDemand platform,… Read more »
Clearwire Lures Silicon Valley Brain Trust By Building Them A WiMax Network
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Kirkland, Wash.-based Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) has launched a WiMax network in Silicon Valley that’s not designed to sign up new customers, bu… Read more »
Turner, Fox Cable Team Up On Nascar.com Video Programming
Turner Sports and Fox Cable’s Speed network have partnered to launch “NASCAR on Speed,” a broadband video channel on Nascar.com. NASCAR on S… Read more »
Revamped SBNation Hooks Up With FanHouse
So what does a five-year-old sports start-up do with $13 million in funding? Blog network SBNation is spending some of it on a new strategy… Read more »
Warner Bros. Launches DC Entertainment — Brings DC-Branded Comics, Movies, Games Under One Roof
Let Disney (NYSE: DIS) have Spider-Man … Warner Bros. wants to make sure that it’s generating the most revenue possible from icons like Ba… Read more »
Industry Moves: Garlinghouse Is Back — And AOL's Got Him
*Yahoo* vet Brad Garlinghouse, the author of the infamous Peanut Butter Manifesto, is back in the portal business — and in a big way. Garli… Read more »
Industry Moves: LAT's Artley Leaving To Head CNN.com Editorial
*Meredith* Artley is leaving as Los Angeles Times online managing editor for CNN.com to fill the global news site’s top edit job. Artley’s d… Read more »
AOL Seeks Some Branding Help From Leo Burnett
At it prepares to spin off from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), AOL is putting its name front and center on its products and services again. And to… Read more »
Inside Word: Some Advice For Yahoo And AOL As They Double Down On The News Business
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital… Read more »
YouTube Inches Closer To Renting Movies But Nothing Imminent
YouTube’s move into content that people might pay for — instead of click on enough to make advertisers happy — is inching toward the next… Read more »
CBSSports And Sports Illustrated Strike Print, Digital Content Deal
The difficult media landscape is encouraging more content companies to start sharing content. Today’s partnership comes from CBSSports.com a… Read more »
Time.com Looks For Cash In Social Net Real Estate
Time.com hopes to leverage the popularity of its Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages with advertisers by crafting co-branded sponsorships. T… Read more »
Updated: Time Warner Cable Tries Its Own Version Of TV Everywhere; Verizon Joins In
Some more details on *Time Warner* Cable’s TV Everywhere push, announced this morning, but calling it a trial still lets the cable operator… Read more »
Industry Moves: AOL Brings Back Minson As CFO To Manage Spinoff
Former *AOL* corporate finance head Arthur Minson is moving back to the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit as executive vice president and CFO, fi… Read more »
Time Warner Cable Online Video Test En Route
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) is on the verge of expanding its online video efforts from a small-scale HBO trial to a small-scale national t… Read more »
Advertising Round-Up: Muzu-Ad2One; BSkyB-Adgent; Orange-Unaminis; Yell-3 UK
– Muzu-Ad2One: Irish music vid site Muzu.tv has hired sales house Ad2One to handle its display account, six months after choosing eType for… Read more »
IPC Reorgs Digital Sales, Director From AOL, Two Layoffs
Marie Claire and NME publisher IPC Media says it’s unifying the separate online ad sales staff from its individual magazines in to a single,… Read more »
DivX, Film Fresh Get Studios' Blessings For Download-to-Own Movie Service
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Funny how certain Hollywood studios have chosen to embrace certain new movie distribution strategies, and yet fight hard against the evoluti… Read more »
Redbox Tries For Trifecta, Sues Warner Bros. Too
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Maybe Redbox’s lawyers get a bonus when they hit a certain number of lawsuits but this is getting to be a bit much. Yes, like Chris Albrecht… Read more »
AOL-Owned Patch Launches Two New Local Sites, Names Publisher
First, EveryBlock gets sold and now another heavily talked about hyperlocal startup has its own bit of news to announce. AOL-owned Patch is… Read more »
Time Warner Will Put Clips On YouTube
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YouTube’s plans to up the amount of professional content on its site got a boost Wednesday, as Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) agreed to put a wide… Read more »
