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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Adconion has acquired KTV Digital Media, the Los Angeles-based digital video production and distribution firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With this acquisition, Adconion is forming its own content development and syndication arm to be called RedLever...this arm will develop and distribute branded video entertainment for agencies and [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Considering the economic meltdown of the past few weeks, the fact that online ad revenues grew 11 percent in Q3 would seem to be reason to celebrate. But comparing the latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau to its Q307 report shows how much growth has slowed. While online ad [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Update: We have confirmed from our sources that the investor is Oak Investment Partners, the big money investment firm. Oak has invested in other digital media related companies like Federated Media, Demand Media, MobiTV, Oberon Media and others. We're still waiting for HuffPo to respond and will have more from [...]
Today, we are raiding Half Bakery for a glimpse of the improbable advertising future. Put your sunglasses on; the brilliance of these ideas is blinding. 1. Advertishoes. "Replace the soles of your shoes with soft rubber, impregnated with chalk or ink, that squashes out onto the ground as you put [...]
Another step towards bookmarkable advertising: this Adobe banner came with an embed code, like your friendly neighborhood YouTube video. It's a somewhat lousy execution of an idea based on an interesting insight -- there's a small percentage of people that would not only click on your ad, but would also [...]
- Juhll is the company of Jennifer Uhll, the former creative director at Lower My Bills who ushered in a new style of banner-making (NYT had the story a couple of years ago). Adverlicio.us has an entire gallery.- What Kind of Blogger Are You? (The tool is kind of like [...]
It is amidst cries announcing the death of blogging that AdLab celebrates its fourth birthday this week (the official DOB is November 12; we are late to our own party). Thank you for reading AdLab over the past year, bookmarking it, sending it to friends, adding it to blogrolls, and [...]
Flyzzz is one of the four Flash games that accompany beautiful TV spots for Leonard Cheshire Disability. Flyzzz can be played by the ear -- you help the chamelion catch flies when they are buzzing right above him. Earlier: Color-Blind Image Simulation Advertising for the Color-Blind Tool: How Color Blind [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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For the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), generous dividend payments are almost as sacred as sophisticated news coverage. Now, the paper has finally given in to the realities of the declining newspaper industry and the wider economic turmoil. Capping weeks of speculation, the NYTCo's board announced that it was [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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It's been a banner year for Saturday Night Live, which has enjoyed record ratings since Tina Fey first teased her hair, donned a bracelet-sleeve blazer, and started dropping her g's in a parody of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Or so goes the conventional wisdom. In the show's season premiere, [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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I was with David Carr until he got to the classical music critic. Using Circuit City's ill-fated decision to get rid of its veteran clerks as a metaphor, Carr laments newspapers getting rid of their experienced talent. Kicks to my groin aside, I've also lamented that. I've argued that when [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Good on Richard Perez-Pena for reporting on new sites doing strong local reporting and investigations - and good on The New York Times for playing it on page one: "As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news [...]
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So The New York Times Company is now worth less than it paid for the disastrous Boston Globe. It has cut its dividend to save cash, which - PR protestations aside - could lead to a family revolt, a la Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and Orange County Register. The [...]
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November 10th, 2008 |
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A strange launch at a strange time, and comes from a strange source: AT&T; (NYSE: T) rolled out a beta version of VideoCrawler, an online video search and aggregation engine. The public beta comes about three months after an even softer launch designed to help the company work out VideoCrawler's [...]
Letters to the editor from the past few weeks. Keep'em coming.-- An Orange America: an abstract visualization of the aggregate conversation on Twitter showing frequency and context of election-related words. Simon, one of the creators (together with JESS3), writes:"To make it work, we take a sample from Twitter every 30 [...]
With the first quarter that has EW Scripps (NYSE: SSP) reporting as a separate company from Scripps Interactive (NYSE: SNI), the newspaper/broadcaster said it will suspend its dividend payment to give it more flexibility as economic conditions worsen. As for Q3 results, EW Scripps swung to a loss from continuing [...]
Given the economic climate, the primary focus in today's Disney earnings call—particularly in the Q&A;—was on the company's parks & resorts business. But after the call, CFO Thomas Staggs agreed to provide some insight into Disney's digital media efforts, which came close to producing a billion dollars in revenue for [...]
Profits at weddings lifestyle company The Knot fell to $2.2 million in Q3, down 24 percent from $2.9 million in 2007. It has a nice forward-looking reason for it: it is investing in "strategic initiatives to extend its brands and enhance its technological infrastructure to access a greater market share [...]
A few days after announcing its purchase of a Facebook analytics company, behavioral ad targeter Adknowledge says it has bought the ad net business of online marketing services company Lookery. Terms were not disclosed. Like Adonomics, which Kansas City, MO-based Adknowledge acquired earlier this week, Lookery analyzes demographic data on [...]
Answers.com (NSDQ: ANSW), the online reference service, has reported its Q308 earnings, and reported higher revenues but a higher loss as well. Revenues for the quarter came in at $3.56 million, up 61 percent from $2.2 million in the year-ago quarter. Losses were $2.12 million, up from $1.95 million in [...]
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) filed its annual report for the 2008 fiscal year with the SEC today, and after combing through the 93-page document, we found a few items worth noting. Here's the highlights: -- Employees: At the end the year, the company had about 32,000 full-time equivalent employees and an [...]
