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Quick Hits: Twitter’s Ad Clientele Grows by 50 Percent, Sony Drops Ericsson, More

Written on
December 5th 2011
Author
Brian LaRue

According to Twitter’s chief revenue officer, Adam Bain, Twitter’s advertising client base has grown by a full 50 percent since the spring, up from around 1,600 to around 2,400. Bain revealed the stats during a Business Insider IGNITION conference today. Those numbers (and the fact that a one-day promoted trending [...] more...

Quick Hits: Colella Named CRO at Maxifier, Groupon Sues Google

Written on
October 27th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS - Denise Colella is joining real-time campaign performance optimizer Maxifier as chief revenue officer. Colella was last seen serving as CRO with AudienceScience (which also lost CEO Jeff Hirsch to Underdog Media a few weeks ago) but also has done executive stints at Right Media and DoubleClick. Maxifier also added DoubleClick and MediaMath [...] more...

Sony Demos Android-Powered Walkman, Targets Runners on Active.com

Written on
September 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The Walkman is dead; long live the Walkman! In announcing the demise of the portable cassette player last year, Sony made me feel ridiculously old — I think I had my first Walkman when I was 10 and blasted my home-duped Pink Floyd cassette (“Dark Side” on A, “Wish [...] more...

Sony Signs Up Rovi to Deliver Ads Through TV Program Guides

Written on
May 9th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – A running joke about American anti-intellectualism is that the most circulated magazine in the U.S. is TV Guide. That actually hasn’t been true since the 1960s, and circulation for TV Guide has fallen from around 20 million in the 1970s to about 2 million today, according to the [...] more...

Electronics Industry Axes Jobs, Sees Bleak Christmas

Written on
December 9th 2008
Author
Reuters Group

Sony Corp axed thousands of jobs on Tuesday and bearish comments from Samsung and Texas Instruments added to the gloom in the technology sector as consumers shun the latest gadgets. Demand for consumer electronics has slumped in the run-up to Christmas as the financial crisis has grown into a broad recession [...] more...

YouTube Goes to Hollywood

Written on
July 17th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Is YouTube’s frosty relationship with Hollywood about to thaw? Perhaps: YouTube is kicking off its diplomatic push by bringing its game to TiVo beginning today. TiVo will offer (the roughly 20% of its 3.8 million subscribers with the right equipment) the option of streaming YouTube videos onto their TVs [...] more...

Marvel Appoints EVP in Digital Growth Strategy

Written on
April 23rd 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Marvel Entertainment, Inc. has appointed Ira Rubenstein executive vice president of its newly launched Global Digital Media Group as part of its overall growth strategy. Rubenstein will spearhead Marvel’s digital distribution strategy across all media and platforms; he’ll report to John Turitzin, executive vice president, office of the [...] more...

MySpace To Launch Free Ad-Supported Music Site

Written on
April 3rd 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS — News Corp.’s MySpace is forming a joint venture with music companies to offer free music and video streaming – the gargantuan social network will fund the venture through interactive advertisements, MP3 downloads, ringtones, ticket sales and merchandise. Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group [...] more...

Harrison Out at Sony’s Gaming Arm – Off to Atari?

Written on
February 25th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS — Sony Corp. today announced that Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.’s president, Phil Harrison, is resigning and will officially be out on February 29. Harrison has been with Sony’s game software development division for 15 years. Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony’s gaming arm, will take over Harrison’s duties. “As one of [...] more...

Yahoo! Prepares To Wrestle YouTube

Written on
August 3rd 2007
Author
Sarah Novotny

Yahoo is determined to give YouTube a run for their money, even though the video sharing site currently has cornered the market. The firm has announced plans to focus on media deals with various content partners with the intention of doing an overhaul of their video site. Yahoo’s general manager for [...] more...



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