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To Pay, or Not To Pay
ADOTAS – Only one in five U.S. consumers is willing to pay for online news, according to a recent Pew research study. Pay-per-article or subscription fees simply drive readers elsewhere. These findings are bad news for newspaper and magazine publishers intent on charging readers for online content. [...] more...
Yahoo to Distribute Electus’ Advertiser-Assisted Shows
ADOTAS – All right — I’m going to come clean with you guys: I’m a huge “Buffy the Vampire Fan.” Anything creator Joss Whedon does I’m bound to be into — and I’m pissed that his latest show “Dollhouse” was canceled by Fox. But Whedon bypassed the networks — cable and [...] more...
Yahoo! News Is More Popular Than Google News
ADOTAS – Everyone’s favorite media conglomerate curmudgeon, Rupert Murdoch of the monstrosity that is News Corp., pitched a fit all year about Google News to just about anybody who would listen. Conferences, interviews, bar mitzvahs — if there were reporters around, he was likely to bitch about that “parasite” Google. But [...] more...
Online ads more prominent in NY Times’ ad revenue
ADOTAS – The New York Times Co. may look like dreary news central with layoffs in the newsroom and advertising revenue dipping 27% to $571 million, it may be easy to overlook the bright side of the otherwise gloomy third-quarter earnings report. Beyond the headline-grabbing loss of $37 million for the [...] more...
AOL cornering content
ADOTAS — The tumult in journalism is helping AOL speed up its content strategy. CEO Tim Armstrong’s new direction for the faltering and every-changing company is to corner the market on original digital content, and it seems to be working. According to the Times, of the more than 80 Web sites, [...] more...
New York Times blog fail prompts Jeff Jarvis deep sigh
ADOTAS — I’m not really sure why the Times wastes in print on what blogs do or don’t do well. The newspaper seems to think what works for traditional journalism is the same way it should for blogs, it doesn’t, and time after time foists another silly blog-centric story on readers. [...] more...
New York Times ads leverage brand Gawker-style
ADOTAS — The line between news editorial and advertisement gets blurrier every day on the web. Take Gawker. Prompted by what appeared to be a straight forward press release, Alley insider reported that the media company acqured a blog called BloodCopy.com. Later it was discovered that the news was fake and [...] more...
Twitter and the few dedicated users who actually use it
ADOTAS — A quick news glance around the webosphere. AOL spinoff nears. (Washington Post) Microsoft Targets Smaller Service Providers With New Mediaroom Offering. (Paidcontent) Yahoo tweaks homepage. Tech world trembles. (Browser media) Facebook officially loses $5 billion in valuation – (NY Times) Newspapers should become carnival barkers on their Google-linked pages. (Knight Digital Media [...] more...
Another blanket denial from Last.fm that it didn’t hand over user info
ADOTAS — A quick new glance around the webosphere. Has The Ad Recession Hit Bottom Yet? (Paidcontent) Microsoft’s $80 million advertising gamble on Bing search taking on Google. (AdAge) - Another blanket denial from Last.fm that it didn’t hand over user info to RIAA. (Techcrunch) And partner CBS? apparently we’ll find out. Nokia’s Ovi Store went [...] more...
Facebook, Fresh Direct, Time vs CPM and tradeshows drew comments this week
ADOTAS — Some of our readers’ opinions for the last week’s stories. Facebook and Holocaust Denial; and Facebook, breasts – no; Holocaust denial groups – yes. Brad Nickel: “Where should they stop? Darfur? USSR? Native Americans? Which deniers get censored and which do not? Does it take 10,000 dead to qualify for no [...] more...
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