One of the larger signs of digital media growth is its adoption by firms outside its realm by companies perceived as more traditional or established. The latest company to aggressively ramp up their digital publishing strategy is British retailer Harrod’s, […]
Political site Talking Points Memo (TPM) is planning to extend its coverage into new verticals in an effort to increase its traffic beyond its core audience of political junkies. TPM will extend its coverage into complimentary areas, including Foreign Politics, […]
A survey from the Pew Research Center has found that 71% of adult American’s watch online video in May 2011. YouTube remains the most popular online video destination, receiving some 3 billion views a day, with 200 milliom views coming […]
Disney focused heavily on money to be made from streaming video content on its sites during an earnings call last week, and the company is now pairing with retail giant Target to produce a web series aimed at families preparing […]
The Huffington Post’s business model has been good for some, and not so good for others- which makes it a controversial topic when compensation for content contributions is discussed. There’s no question as to whether the model benefits some- Arianna […]
Perhaps the most ambitious venture into hyperlocal news and media is AOL’s well-seeded Patch, a network of local bloggers that are essentially working for the company to replace the dying hometown newspaper. In the past, communities were served by village […]
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Miguel Ferrer, General Manager of AOL Latino confirmed on Monday that Patch Latino, the Latino brance of AOL’s hyperlocal news network will launch this fall and is already in the process of hiring journalists in select market. Speaking to Portada, […]
The Associated Press and Google want digital journalism writers to improve their craft and to help with that goal they have launched a national scholarship program for digital journalism students. The program is being administered by The Online News Association, […]
I was reading an interesting post today by the Guardian’s Peter Preston in which he performed a quick tally of comments per article on HuffPost UK’s top 10 blogs. Peter found that three weeks ago the sites stories were receiving just […]
In an environment where new media is often under attack, South American country Guyana has taken a stance in favor of new media, and it’s all good. Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo said in an address to the local Impress Youth […]
Spotify, as you have probably noticed, is everybody’s new boyfriend since it arrived stateside last month. iPhone user adoption of the popular European music streaming service is through the roof, and articles are popping up left, right and center on […]
In May, HBO launched an app to extend popular content streaming service HBO Go to mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch. With exclusive content released to HBO Go (I recall crowding around a tiny screen after a […]
News aggregation means big business these days, that fact became apparent when AOL purchased the Huffington Post for $315 million. While HuffPost does offer many excellent original news stories, at the time of sale more than 3,000 bloggers helped aggregate […]
Smartclip, a display advertising company that provides targeted ads for news channels has signed a pan-European agreement with online news broadcaster Livestation. Ads from the Livestation inventory will be included in Smartclip’s ad network, including the company’s ad server for […]
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