Facebook And Miramax Team Up For 30 Day Rentals

Facebook And Miramax Team Up For 30 Day Rentals

Facebook and Miramax on Monday announced a new video streaming partnership that makes various titles available for 30 day rental periods. The partnership according to PaidContent is the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie app to-date. Under terms of the deal Facebook will begin […]

Hulu Expected To Fetch $500 Million or $2 Billion, No One Really Knows

Hulu Expected To Fetch $500 Million or $2 Billion, No One Really Knows

Typically when an organization the size of Hulu goes on the market investors have an idea as to what the company may be worth, for example based on private equity shareholder purchases Facebook is expected to fetch upwards of $100 […]

Bauer Radio, Screenreach Team Up With Geo-Targeted Ads For Radio Apps

Bauer Radio, Screenreach Team Up With Geo-Targeted Ads For Radio Apps

Interactive digital media company Screenreach has partnered with Bauer Media to bring geo-targeted ad and editorial content to radio apps, aimed at listeners using smartphones to stream content. Using the Screenreach’s Screach technology, the companies- both UK based- will harness […]

Glam Media Updates Mobile Advertising and Publisher Creation Platforms

Glam Media Updates Mobile Advertising and Publisher Creation Platforms

Glam Media, a collection of women friendly websites which includes SheFinds, Womens Forum and Dr. Phil among various other properties has announced a new mobile advertising and publisher program for mobile and app creation platforms. The company’s new program allows […]

Anti-Arianna Huffington Campaign Started By MessageSpace, Urges Bloggers To Write For Pay

Anti-Arianna Huffington Campaign Started By MessageSpace, Urges Bloggers To Write For Pay

The team at MessageSpace.co.uk isn’t happy with the treatment of bloggers at the Huffington Post, calling the platforms “free worker” campaign nothing short of “exploitation” which they plan to rectify with a new blogger offering of their own. The company, […]

LA Times Web Chief Cites Traffic Surges, Still Lags Behind NYT

LA Times Web Chief Cites Traffic Surges, Still Lags Behind NYT

Amid some rounds of layoffs, the head of the Los Angeles Times’ website insists that the paper’s online strategy is “solid” and “not a fluke.” ComScore indicates traffic to the broadsheet’s website is up 23% over last year, but it hasn’t […]

Yahoo Announces Web-Only Lifestyle Show Hosted By Myleene Klass

Yahoo Announces Web-Only Lifestyle Show Hosted By Myleene Klass

Yahoo on Thursday announced a new web-only Lifestyle show called “Bumps, Babies and Beyond” hosted by Myleene Klass. If you’re unfamiliar with the former popstars work, she wrote the book “My Bump and Me” which the series is based off. […]

Analysts, Potential Buyers Weigh In On Hulu Auction

Analysts, Potential Buyers Weigh In On Hulu Auction

As the deadline for initial bids in the Hulu auction draws ever nearer, analysts and potential buyers are weighing in on how the first round of bids might shape up. DirecTv, initially pegged as one of the possible buyers for […]

AOL Huffington Post Media Group Announces Relaunch Of Stylelist.com

AOL Huffington Post Media Group Announces Relaunch Of Stylelist.com

AOL Huffington Post Media Group on Thursday announced the official relaunch of Stylelist.com, a website that focuses on the world of fashion and beauty, specifically working to enhance their readers personal sense of style. The site is being run by […]

RIM Jumps on Spotify Bandwagon, Reportedly Looking at Streaming Music Service for BlackBerry

RIM Jumps on Spotify Bandwagon, Reportedly Looking at Streaming Music Service for BlackBerry

With the July launch of music streaming service Spotify, it looks like the newly-available handset streaming functionality portion of the service for iPhone and Android could be kicking off a wave of competition among other providers. Yesterday it was announced […]

The Latest Magazine to Go Digital is… ‘Reader’s Digest?’ Seriously?

The Latest Magazine to Go Digital is… ‘Reader’s Digest?’ Seriously?

This has to be some kind of watershed moment in the current paradigm shift of how periodical content is distributed and consumed by its audience. Reader’s Digest is- and I will try to describe this as charitably as possible- kind of […]

Chinese Video Site Tudou Announces IPO Pricing

Chinese Video Site Tudou Announces IPO Pricing

Leading Chinese video site Tudou Holdings Limited has today announced the price of its initial public offering (IPO) of 6 million American depositary shares (ADSs) on the NASDAQ. The depositary shares (the equivalent to four Class B ordinary shares,) will […]

Rhapsody, MetroPCS Announce Partnership

Rhapsody, MetroPCS Announce Partnership

If Spotify is anything to go by, streaming music may finally have gotten a significant foothold in the as-of-yet hard to crack US market. The service arrived to much fanfare and glowing reviews in the US last month after a […]

NBC 10 Integrates Foursquare With Local Reporting

NBC 10 Integrates Foursquare With Local Reporting

Philadelphia newschannel NBC 10 has taken the step of adopting the geo-location app Foursquare in order to integrate with viewers more dynamically. The station has created an account that currently has a few hundred followers, and one reporter per day […]