Cablevision Systems Corp., the new owner of 97 percent of Newsday, will immediately begin its plan to expand the paper’s circulation over its digital cable network while exploiting access to Newsday’s subscribers and portfolio of advertisers. The company plans to expand the ways people get Newsday, including via its forthcoming wireless internet network. Newsday (July [...]
The Federal Communications Commission will rule that Comcast violated federal policy by deliberately preventing some customers from sharing videos online via file-sharing services. While Comcast acknowledges that it slowed some traffic, it claims it was necessary to prevent a few heavy users from overburdening the network. The decision is likely to go to court sometime [...]
Internet advertising is forecasted to surpass radio this year, with about 9.5 percent of ad budgets worldwide allocated to online media, and is expected to overtake magazine advertising by 2010. Bloomberg (June 25, 2008)
In its latest issue, Vanity Fair pays homage to the internet in an eight-part 22-page article entitled “How the Web Was Won.” The article gives nods to internet high-rollers such as Al Gore, Amazon, Ebay, PayPal, Ning, MySpace, Friendster, and YouTube to name a few. However, grievances are already being aired about [...]
Despite the economic downturn, experts predict that internet advertising in the U.S. will continue to “grow fast” from the number five medium to the number two medium in just five years. This prediction suggests that revenues will grow sevenfold from $500 million to $3.8 billion by 2012. Because of this, IDC suggests that [...]
The device will cost $399, and will download content using the wireless service EVDO, which is offered by some cellular phone carriers. New editions and best-selling books will cost $9.99. Magazines subscriptions will cost between $1.25 and $3.49 a month, newspapers between $5.99 and $14.99. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pitches [...]
Fast on the heels of re-designs to its magazine and website, NewsWeek plans to introduce a weekly, web-based show about politics — leveraging their considerable pool of talking-head talent. Increased emphasis online comes at the end of a difficult year for the printed magazine. Ad sales were down in the first three quarters by 8.5% and newsstand [...]
…And hoping to charge up to $9.99 a month for access to them. The new service, launched today, may represent the comic industry’s boldest web play to date. It was taken, according to one Marvel exec, in recognition that kids just aren’t exposed ot that spinning rack of comics in the five-and-dime [...]
In the second and third quarters, the growth of online advertising at Gannett, Tribune, E.W. Scripps and other major newspaper companies slowed dramatically. Poynter Online (Nov. 12, 2007)