Ad networks already dying, as predicted
Five days ago, Cory wrote about the coming death of “dozens and dozens” of ad networks, as predicted by Razorfish’s Jeff Lanctot. Here we go. (via ContentAgenda)
Report: CNN courts newspapers with wire service
Editor & Publisher is reporting that CNN is preparing to pitch a new wire service “to a variety of newspapers and newspaper groups, large and small,” which would presumably compete with the Associated Press.
Christian Science Monitor ends print edition
The Christian Science Monitor will be the first national daily newspaper to give up on print, focusing its resources on CSMonitor.com as well as starting a weekly magazine. Sure, it’s not publicly traded — nor has it generated much in print advertising — but the move from print to online will be watched carefully by [...]
Watch the Online Video Summit live
Beet.tv has pulled together some of the top online video experts in the field — folks from Yahoo!, YouTube, MySpace, Akamai, The Washington Post, CNN and msnbc.com, to name a few — for a live discussion this morning. The event streams live from 9 a.m. to noon EST from the msnbc.com Digital Cafe in New [...]
MTV launches its own Hulu
Hulu has done such a good job with its user experience, MTV has copied it. Sort of. The new MTVMusic.com is a clean, user-friendly video site featuring a full slate of music videos. You can comment, rate and embed clips, as well as meet other people. Time will tell if MTVMusic.com will succeed, given the [...]
Msnbc.com offers election results widgets
Our team here at msnbc.com has created a snazzy set of widgets that any site can embed on election night for the latest returns, updated every two minutes. There are two widgets that come in three sizes each: a national electoral map and a state map of your choosing. So if you’re a local media [...]
Blogs on their way out?
Wired magazine had an interesting and humorous article about how blogging is so 2004. It’s all Twitter now. It’s timely because so many newsrooms are trying to figure out what to do with their blogs. Most are still yet to take off and many contain the same type of content you would find on the rest of the site. It’s also timely considering Lost Remote’s one week redesign.
I’m not so sure that blogs in newsrooms are going away. They have an important role to play and when done right, are very valuable. So, here’s my list of six things you can do to help your newsroom blogs
Web beats TV or fuzzy math?
Updated: There have been a few stories lately comparing the popularity of SNL clips on TV and the web. “The number of people who have watched the clips on the web is closing fast, and will soon surpass the 15 million that watched on TV, if it hasn’t already,” explains an Ad Age story, adding [...]
If newspapers dropped their print product
Assume a newspaper has revenue of $100 million a year operating on a 15% margin with 60% of its costs and 90% of its revenues tied to print. Alan Mutter of Newsosaur runs the math: “If the company abandoned print but were able to double its online sales to $20 million, it would lose $14 [...]
AP changes course on new rate plan
Facing a tough economic environment and threats from newspapers to drop the service, the AP said it will cut member assessments by another $9 million next year, for a total of nearly $30 million. It will also consider cutting rates for broadcast members, too. “It is time to consider fundamental change to address members’ rapidly [...]
Knight News Challenge deadline Nov. 1
The deadline is approaching fast to submit an application to try to grab some of the $5 million in grants in this year’s Knight News Challenge: “If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support [...]
‘Dozens and dozens’ of ad networks to die
That’s what Jeff Lanctot, chief strategy officer for Microsoft’s interactive agency Razorfish, predicts will happen in 2009. “There are probably more than 300 ad networks up and running and they aren’t differentiated on technology,” he said. “It’s all about arbitrage; they buy inventory for a low price and sell it for a higher price and [...]
CitySquares lands funding, to go nationwide
The hyperlocal search/directory company CitySquares, which we’ve profiled here on Lost Remote, has just landed an undisclosed amount of funding from Mark Cuban and Jonathan Kraft. “We recognize the value of local search and see CitySquares as a dynamic player in that space,” says Cuban. CitySquares will begin rolling out nationwide in November.
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Borrell revises local ad spending forecast
This is no surprise, but still painful. Borrell Associates has scaled back its local online spending forecast for 2008 and 2009. Local businesses will spend $11.9 billion in online advertising this year, down from $13.1 billion. And in 2009, businesses are expected to spend $13.6 billion, down from $18.2 billion. “We are going to see [...]
Pithy observations on media from Bioneers
The Bioneers 2008 conference focused on how nature and technology can join forces to better the planet. Jaymi Heimbuch posted the following snippets on Treehugger after attending the panel “iTube, YouTube, WeAllTube: Digital Media and Distribution Innovators:” “TV is a powerful medium whose agenda was once created by newspapers. Newspapers, though, are on their way [...]
Google phone hits store shelves, video demo
The Google-powered G1 phone went on sale today in markets with T-Mobile’s 3G service (not quite as much hype as the iPhone, eh?) The Google Android application market has also launched. Here’s a video demo… The phone is $179 if you’re not an existing T-Mobile customer. Plus: The top ten Google Android applications so far
The urgency to re-engineer local TV news
Economically speaking, local TV newsrooms must learn how to produce less costly product. That’s the cold and hard reality of the approaching year when that product — even with high ratings — will yield significantly less revenue. TV journalists, of course, don’t like to hear news described as “product,” often don’t understand that high ratings [...]
Fox pitches new publishing platform
As we blogged yesterday, the Lin stations are switching to Fox Interactive Media’s publishing system called the Digital Publishing Platform. So what does DPP have to offer? “It’s a true plug-and-play solution,” said Ron Berryman, who heads up FIM’s publishing group. “(We provide) an a la carte menu of features, from which you include what [...]
