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Feb 9, 2012 2:28 PM
After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer head honcho Anthony Rose is making its first real play at monetisation.
Posted In: Advertising, E-Commerce, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPad
Feb 7, 2012 4:52 AM
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, this time expanding out of Europe in to Latin America.
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Weblogs, Countries, Europe, Italy, Ireland, Latin America
Feb 2, 2012 5:58 AM
Facebook has made a $3.1 billion business from a social advertising sector many, even it, concede is experimental and unproven. Now it must find that proof. But experimenting on Wall Street, as well as Madison Avenue, could prove challenging.
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Money, IPO, Social Media, Companies, Facebook
Feb 1, 2012 6:28 PM
Facebook‘s nearly 200-page S-1 filing appears to have crippled the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar website with the mass of people going there to take a peek at the social network’s numbers. That traffic may well be matched by the weight of numbers in the filing itself. Here’s a look…
Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Money, IPO, Social Media, Companies, Facebook
Feb 1, 2012 4:51 PM
It took the whole day, but Facebook finally—as many expected—filed its S-1 with the Securities Exchange Commission for its long-awaited IPO. While guesstimates for how much Facebook would try to raise ranged from $5 billion to $10 billion, in the end, it looks like it is the lower of that…
Posted In: Advertising, Features, Breaking News, Money, IPO, Social Media, Companies, Facebook
Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
Posted In: Advertising, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Five, HTC, Hulu, Qualcomm, Countries, Europe, France, creandum, innovacom venture capital, northzone ventures, qualcomm ventures, videoplaza
Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…
Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, Hulu, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Countries, Europe, Germany, bitbop, jesta
Jan 25, 2012 6:30 PM
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, TV, Broadcast, Search, Social Media, News Sharing, Photo Sharing, Companies, Facebook, New York Times, Twitter, Washington Post, facebook subscribe
Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, xBox, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fox, MySpace, Countries, Europe, Germany, jon miller
Jan 23, 2012 10:44 AM
Some revealing numbers out from the analysts at Rutberg & Co. that point to how big mobile is in terms of tech investments today, and how consumer applications are the source of the most action at the moment.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Photo Sharing, Companies, Google
Jan 19, 2012 5:52 PM
A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for the closure of the Megaupload file-sharing site, and for its own SOPA protest, the group has started to systematically take down a number of…
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Piracy, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, France, anonymous, anonymousirc
Jan 19, 2012 5:15 AM
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.
Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Video, Companies, AOL, Channel 4, Facebook, Google, YouTube, ITV, NBC Universal, NBC, Portals, Countries, Europe, UK, itn, rightster
Jan 18, 2012 5:11 AM
Another day, and another big digital investment from the world’s largest advertising firm. WPP subsidiary Ogilvy has taken a 33.3 percent stake in DTDigital, a digital marketing agency based in Melbourne, Australia. The move is not just another signal of the firm’s growing base of interactive holdings, but one more…
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, WPP, Countries, Asia, China, cic, dtdigital
Jan 17, 2012 9:47 AM
The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Entertainment, Games, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Mobile, Money, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Countries, Europe, UK, boku, ihs screen digest, in-app purchases, paypal, screen digest, zong
Jan 17, 2012 5:27 AM
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police - but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage service says it froze his account when it confused a famous work of art with pornography.
Posted In: Entertainment, Adult, Legal, Policy, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Social Media, Avatars, Photo Sharing, Weblogs, Companies, Google, Microsoft, skydrive
Jan 16, 2012 12:15 PM
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production companies.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Companies, ITV
Jan 16, 2012 5:27 AM
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.
Posted In: Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Countries, Europe, Russia
Jan 13, 2012 7:35 AM
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The loss is a keen one for the BBC: among Wiltshire’s responsibilities, he was…
Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Companies, BBC, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, lewis wiltshre, tony wang
Jan 12, 2012 11:01 AM
Demotix, the user journalism and photography upload service that is part-owned by Corbis, is adding an incremental new revenue stream.
Posted In: Social Media, News Sharing
Jan 10, 2012 5:54 PM
Today it was revealed that Paul Berry, the longtime-CTO of AOL’s Huffington Post, will be leaving his role at the news site, along with the unrelated departure of the site’s managing editor, Nico Pitney. We spoke to Paul earlier about the social-media focused startup that he plans to launch next,…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Companies, AOL, Huffington Post Media Group, BBC, Facebook, Google, Twitter, paul berry
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