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June 19, 2013
Twitter signs up Viacom to tweet sponsored video highlights
AdAge :: Viacom has signed a deal to tweet sponsored video clips from shows across the company's portfolio, which includes MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central.
June 19, 2013 at 06:29 PM | Permalink
Great marketing is not made in 6 days: Give it a week, at least
AdAge :: We replaced the importance of patient craftwork with an overwhelming desire to hit “send.” Marketers seize every chance to tweet or post or hang from a lamppost -- anything to get out there fast. They get drunk on their new opportunities with the internet, like “leaking” Super Bowl spots on YouTube, instead of paying attention to the content and ideas in their work.
June 19, 2013 at 06:26 PM | Permalink
His reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal: Michael Hastings dead at 33
Rolling Stones :: Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33.
June 19, 2013 at 04:50 PM | Permalink
Fighting banner blindness: Slate’s in-house agency creates advertising content
Digiday :: In the middle of last year, Slate decided it needed to address a common ailment in the digital publishing arena: banner blindness. The result: an in-house agency, Slate Custom Group, to help advertisers create and distribute advertising content and programs.
June 19, 2013 at 08:07 AM | Permalink
What moves the needle, what gets consumers to act: How brands organize for data
Digiday :: Mastercard’s Conversation Suite, SAP’s Test Lab and Conde Nast’s CNtelligence are examples of internal digital marketing environments.
June 19, 2013 at 07:59 AM | Permalink
Bedrocket invests in Shira Lazar's daily pop culture live show What's Trending on YouTube
paidContent :: Thought there was no money in producing original content for YouTube’s audience? The folks at Bedrocket Entertainment beg to differ — and just invested in What’s Trending.
June 19, 2013 at 06:54 AM | Permalink
Startup-PR matchmaker AirPR opens to the public
TechCrunch :: AirPR launched into private beta last year with $1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Mohr Davidow Ventures, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and others to help solve this problem by creating a marketplace in which startups can find PR representation that’s right for them, and vice versa.
June 19, 2013 at 06:36 AM | Permalink
San Francisco Giants' new social media HQ and cafe brings Twitter to life
mashable :: Physically going out to the ol' ballgame has always been an unmatched sporting experience. More recently, however, fans have flocked to online social platforms to talk trash, post thoughts and generally partake in the fun of spectator sports.
RT @mashable: .@SFGiants new social cafe brings Twitter to baseball fans IRL http://t.co/Y5uMUYWTqj
— Sam Laird (@samcmlaird) June 19, 2013
June 19, 2013 at 06:26 AM | Permalink
June 18, 2013
Assange will not leave Ecuador embassy even if Sweden drops extradition bid
Guardian :: WikiLeaks founder fears moves are under way by the US to prosecute him on espionage charges over cable releases.
June 18, 2013 at 10:48 PM | Permalink
Tumblr's media director Mark Coatney quits
Valleywag :: Tumblr brought Mark Coatney aboard from Newsweek to bolster the site's editorial side—"to show how [Tumblr] can be key to connecting journalists and readers." Three years (and a Yahoo acquisition) later, and another early employee is gone. That's two in only a few weeks.
June 18, 2013 at 09:49 PM | Permalink
Local government secretary Eric Pickles: The right of journalists and citizens to film council meetings
Guardian :: He has issued a guide today* which explicitly states that local authorities should allow the public to film and record their meetings and it corrects misconceptions that such filming is prohibited by the Data Protection Act.
June 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM | Permalink
MTV is shedding its skin again to appeal to viewers age 14 to 17
New York Times :: Trying to win over a fickle teenager isn’t easy. Trying to win over millions of them every night is — as the kids say — cray cray. But that’s exactly what MTV has had to do since its inception in the 1980s as the cable channel for disenchanted youth.
June 18, 2013 at 11:15 AM | Permalink
Why the half-life of a Pinterest pin is thousands of times longer than a tweet or Facebook post
VentureBeat :: The useful life of the average tweet can be measured in minutes. Most posts on Facebook exist in users’ streams for perhaps a few hours. But a pin on Pinterest?
June 18, 2013 at 07:00 AM | Permalink
PBS’ Digital Studios: Significant growth but not enough revenue yet
Digiday :: PBS's digital arm, Digital Studios, has seen significant growth since it started last year. But it still needs to find ways to generate revenue.
June 18, 2013 at 06:50 AM | Permalink
Google’s patented news article rankings: large publishers benefit
Contently :: A recently published patent application by the company sheds light on the factors it uses to decide which news stories to promote in its rankings. Notably, these newly updated metrics are surprising for how they explicitly reward larger publishers.
June 18, 2013 at 06:42 AM | Permalink
June 17, 2013
Greek court suspends ERT broadcaster closure (BBC)
BBC :: The top administrative court said ERT could resume transmission until a new national media body is set up.
June 17, 2013 at 10:57 PM | Permalink
No matter who published it: Sources with secrets find new outlest for sharing
New York Times :: But in a democracy threatened by excessive secrecy and the criminalizing of news gathering, the more sunlight the better.
June 17, 2013 at 10:43 PM | Permalink
UK: MoD serves news outlets with D notice over surveillance leaks
Guardian :: Defence officials issued a confidential D notice to the BBC and other media groups in an attempt to censor coverage of surveillance tactics employed by intelligence agencies in the UK and US.
June 17, 2013 at 10:26 PM | Permalink
Gallup poll: Public trust in newspapers dips again
Mediapost :: A Gallup poll of 1,529 adults conducted June 1-4 found that the proportion of respondents expressing “a great deal” of confidence in newspapers slipped from 25% in 2012 to 23% this year; in 2011 28% of Americans expressed a great deal of confidence in newspapers.
June 17, 2013 at 10:06 PM | Permalink
Trying to clear out stock? Barnes & Noble just keeps slashing Nook tablet prices
paidContent :: Why is Barnes & Noble extending price cuts on Nook tablets? It may be because the retailer is trying to clear out stock.
June 17, 2013 at 09:43 PM | Permalink
LinkedIn builds its publishing presence
New York Times :: Daniel Roth, the executive editor of LinkedIn, said that Influencers is catnip to executive-suite aspirants and is transforming viewer engagement on the site. Visitors viewed 63 percent more pages in the first quarter of 2013, ending in May, than they did in the quarter a year earlier, according to the earnings report.
June 17, 2013 at 07:25 PM | Permalink
Now 35%: Sports consumption via mobile devices in the US
Sporting News Media :: Based on data gathered in the Global Sports Media Consumption Report 2013, these infographics provide a visual snapshot into some of the key issues and trends affecting the sports media space.
June 17, 2013 at 04:30 PM | Permalink
The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days
Fortune :: Eddy Cue, the alleged "ringmaster" of a conspiracy to raise e-book prices in 2010, returns to a Manhattan federal court Monday in the final four days of the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Apple.
June 17, 2013 at 04:00 PM | Permalink
No need to work with power players anymore: The monopoly of scoops is disappearing
New York Times :: The business disruption in the media world caused by the Internet has been well documented. But a monopoly on scoops, long a cherished franchise for established and muscular news organizations, is disappearing. Big news will now carve its own route to the ocean, and no one feels the need to work with the traditional power players to make it happen.
June 17, 2013 at 09:49 AM | Permalink
Your smartphone, your moods, their market
Monday Note :: Coupled to facial imaging, the smartphone could become the ultimate media analytics tool, for evaluating editorial content or measuring the effectiveness of ads. Obviously, there are darker sides.
June 17, 2013 at 09:16 AM | Permalink
Alternate revenue streams for YouTube creators: Subblime
paidContent :: No matter how many times we hear reports that hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube creators are making a comfortable living from their channels, recent discussions triggered by Jason Calacanis have brought up again the importance of creators pursuing more revenue streams than just the profits made from pre-roll ads on YouTube.
June 17, 2013 at 07:28 AM | Permalink
Spin Media’s creative services team to help advertiser's create content
Digiday :: Spin Media is trying to rebuild itself, and introducing a creative services team to help advertiser's create content.
June 17, 2013 at 07:00 AM | Permalink
How mobile has changed Fandango’s business
Digiday :: Fandango is seeing 41 percent of its total sales coming from mobile.
June 17, 2013 at 06:34 AM | Permalink
Sueddeutsche.de launches @DieRecherche: Editors suggest, readers decide which story to cover
Sueddeutsche.de :: Die Recherche suggests 3 topics among which readers can choose, which one the editors should cover once per month.
June 17, 2013 at 12:58 AM | Permalink
Collecting census data: TV body BARB to track VoD viewing for first time
Brand Republic :: The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB), the official source of television viewing figures in the UK, has appointed Kantar Spring to collect census data for TV viewing through all services, including 4oD, BBC iPlayer, Demand 5, ITV Player and Sky Go.
June 17, 2013 at 12:50 AM | Permalink
Yahoo partners Sky News to create Sunrise service
Brand Republic :: In further signs of collaboration in the media sector, Yahoo has partnered with Sky News to create a global online news hub for Sky News Sunrise, presented by Eamonn Holmes and Charlotte Hawkins.
June 17, 2013 at 12:48 AM | Permalink
What can the Web do to enhance fact-checking?
Reuters Institute :: Fact-checking is an old journalistic practice now being brought into considerably greater prominence due to the possibilities offered by the Internet.
June 17, 2013 at 12:45 AM | Permalink
Can local TV news fill the watchdog role in the 21st century?
Variety :: CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer advanced the theory at this year’s National Assn. of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, but other media analysts are skeptical.
June 17, 2013 at 12:40 AM | Permalink
Local World's editorial cuts erode the 'human interface'
Guardian :: David Montgomery, Local World: "Will the human interface disappear? It won't. In five or ten years time we will have editorial people reporting on things. They won't go out and write one story a day because it doesn't happen now, they will be doing multiple jobs."
June 17, 2013 at 12:20 AM | Permalink
Global Radio appeals against order to sell off GMG Radio stations
Guardian :: Competition Commission ordered the sale of stations in seven areas of the UK over concerns about effect on competition.
June 17, 2013 at 12:14 AM | Permalink
June 16, 2013
Demo Day: Matters first six media startups pitching their products to venture capital firms
AllThingsD :: Matter's first-ever demo day featured six startups pitching their products to venture capital firms including Greylock Partners and Sierra Ventures, along with various angel investors, for their first seed rounds.
June 16, 2013 at 07:04 PM | Permalink
CBS News confirms Sharyl Attkisson's computer hacked
CBS News :: CBS News announced Friday that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson's computer was hacked by "an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions," confirming Attkisson's previous revelation of the hacking.
June 16, 2013 at 05:55 PM | Permalink
Yahoo's Head of Middle East and Africa departs for new social TV startup aimed at emerging markets
AllThingsD :: One of Yahoo’s senior international execs and longtime entrepreneur Ahmed Nassef is leaving the company to create a new startup called Telfez, which will be a social television effort aimed at emerging markets.
June 16, 2013 at 03:51 PM | Permalink
Cost of a decent press release? $7,500
Poynter :: The requirements for a press release have changed since 2007, when Business Wire estimated a good press release would run $5,000, Fred Godlash writes. “The biggest change, in just 6 years, is the focus from pitching to media outlets to making a press release that is written for everybody.”
June 16, 2013 at 03:47 PM | Permalink
The Atlantic launches weekly iPhone magazine for $2.99 a month (Jeff John Roberts/paidContent)
paidContent :: The Atlantic’s anticipated paid product is now here in the form of a weekly collection of curated content. New issues will be distributed to the iPad and iPhone every Friday.
June 16, 2013 at 12:30 PM | Permalink
Media and the White House: When a journalist’s relatives or spouse is part of the news
Washington Post :: According to the news media, nothing much at all. News organizations say they’ve worked out the conflicts — real or potential — involving their journalists. But that hasn’t stopped a few eyebrows from being raised.
June 16, 2013 at 08:35 AM | Permalink
June 15, 2013
Politicians struggle with authenticity on Twitter, self-censorship prevails
Wired | Ars Technica :: So common is it for politicians to get cold feet about their latest 140 character missive that an international website has opened up to keep track. Politiwoops operates in 25 countries at the moment and has racked up 24,580 deleted tweets from MPs in the UK since May 2011
June 15, 2013 at 11:31 PM | Permalink
France seeks movies, digital media free trade exclusion
Advanced TV :: France has threatened to block the start of free trade talks between the European Union and the United States if movies and digital media are not kept out the negotiations.
June 15, 2013 at 07:20 PM | Permalink
Burma falters, backtracks on press freedom
Committee to Protect Journalists :: The media landscape in Burma is more open than ever, as President Thein Sein releases imprisoned journalists and abolishes the former censorship regime. But many threats and obstacles to truly unfettered reporting remain
June 15, 2013 at 02:58 PM | Permalink
Burma falters, backtracks on press freedom
Committee to Protect Journalists :: The media landscape in Burma is more open than ever, as President Thein Sein releases imprisoned journalists and abolishes the former censorship regime. But many threats and obstacles to truly unfettered reporting remain
June 15, 2013 at 02:48 PM | Permalink
BBC suspends ties with Turkey's NTV over protests coverage
Agence France Presse | Google :: The BBC announced on Friday it has suspended its partnership with Turkey's private NTV channel after it pulled a programme on press freedom and the anti-government protests.
June 15, 2013 at 02:31 PM | Permalink
Trading faster than the speed of reality
TechCrunch :: The public ticker is always just a little bit out of date. There’s an unavoidable lag, or latency. It takes time for the exchanges to communicate updated price information and continually merge and publish these revisions. The delay may be fairly short—measured in milliseconds. But any disparity in time opens the door for somebody with faster connections and computers to figure it out before it becomes public.
June 15, 2013 at 08:24 AM | Permalink
Google's Project Loon: balloon-powered Internet access, where regular terrestrial Internet isn’t a good option
Google Blog :: The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem.
June 15, 2013 at 07:12 AM | Permalink
June 14, 2013
Paul Carr's NSFWCorp raises seed round to publish news, books-on paper
Wall Street Journal | Venture Capital Dispatch :: As print magazine and book publishers struggle to stay afloat, Not Safe For Work, a print magazine and news startup in Las Vegas, has raised $250,000 in seed funding from Base Ventures, VentureWire has learned.
June 14, 2013 at 11:52 PM | Permalink
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