Guardian News And Media Overhauls Data Collection Methodology For “Digital-First” Strategy

Guardian News And Media Overhauls Data Collection Methodology For “Digital-First” Strategy

Guardian News and Media, the company behind Guardian.co.uk and various other publications and online platforms has announced plans to consolidate user information into a single, more manageable database system. The company will gather information from their various apps, dating site, […]

iTunes Replay ‘Months’ Away, Thanks To Rights Issues

iTunes Replay ‘Months’ Away, Thanks To Rights Issues

First rights wrangling ruined Beavis and Butthead vintage footage save some sucky clips onYouTube that keep getting taken down, and now it’s preventing Apple from bringing re-watchable movies to your iTunes account for the foreseeable future. The anticipated iTunes Replay- an […]

Nomad Editions Names David Sleight As Chief Technology Officer

Nomad Editions Names David Sleight As Chief Technology Officer

Digital weekly magazine publisher Nomad Editions has announced that David Sleight has joined the company as their new Chief Technology Officer. Sleight comes from an online digital background having served as the deputy creative director of BusinessWeek.com and the founder […]

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

For the first time in three years AOL on Tuesday posted an increase in global advertising revenue during the company’s earnings call. The newly reorganized media publisher posted a net loss of $11.8 million for the quarter, compared to a […]

Premium Internet Publishers Attract Higher Conversion Rates For Advertisers [Study]

Premium Internet Publishers Attract Higher Conversion Rates For Advertisers [Study]

Premium Publishers who rank in the top 100 ComScore websites are more effective at attracting and converting users in performance-based campaigns than sites that rely on long-tail keywords according to a recent study conducted by retargeting firm Criteo. Criteo used […]

BitFlx Brings Hyperlocal Video Reporting To iPhone Users, Android Coming Soon

BitFlx Brings Hyperlocal Video Reporting To iPhone Users, Android Coming Soon

Hyperlocal sites such as Patch.com and Outside.In allow users to write news stories about their local communities, however we currently live in a video centric society and for that reason BitFlx was thought up and initiated. BitFlx is an iPhone […]

Playboy Partners Up With Largest Online Adult-Content Distributor Manwin

Playboy Partners Up With Largest Online Adult-Content Distributor Manwin

After a decades-long reign over mainstream adult content, Playboy‘s massive empire was hit hard by the free and open exchange of pornographic material over the internet. Since its inception in the 1950’s, the magazine was the most notable and common […]

The Streamy Awards To Return In 2012 With Dick Clark Productions

The Streamy Awards To Return In 2012 With Dick Clark Productions

Annual online video awards show The Streamy Awards is to return in 2012 after a hiatus in 2011. The revived Streamys, presented by Tubefilter, is aiming for new heights in 2012 with the announcement that the show itself will be […]

Newsweek Bought Their Traffic Ahead Of ‘The Daily Beast’ Merger

Newsweek Bought Their Traffic Ahead Of ‘The Daily Beast’ Merger

Last week it was reported that while The Daily Beast was seeing upticks in their own website traffic, recently acquired company Newsweek is down 24 percent in the past year and now it turns out that those numbers could have been […]

Deseret Digital Media Names Mike Petroff EVP & COO

Deseret Digital Media Names Mike Petroff EVP & COO

Mormon online publishing company Deseret Digital Media has announced the promotion of Mike Petroff to the positions of executive vice president and chief operating officer. Petroff will oversee all aspects of the company’s day-to-day operations reporting to CEO Clark Gilbert. […]

HubPages Tries Subdomains To Recover From Google Panda

HubPages Tries Subdomains To Recover From Google Panda

Content community HubPages is transitioning its users to subdomains in an attempt to recover traffic following the roll out of Google Panda earlier this year. Like many big content players, HubPages took a hit from Google’s search changes, with a […]

Yahoo Launches New Web Player: I Don’t Get It

Yahoo Launches New Web Player: I Don’t Get It

Yahoo has launched Yahoo WebPlayer beta, billed as a “new way to add video and audio to your site.” The player allows users to include video and audio content on their sites through a new pop up interface that is […]

QR Code Use in Allure Magazine Shatters Engagement Records

QR Code Use in Allure Magazine Shatters Engagement Records

Condé Nast property Allure is engaging print readers in a new digital way with the use of mobile scan codes in the August issue of the fashion and beauty magazine. Allure still holds a record for QR Code engagement from their […]

Digg Adds Customizable Real-Time Newswire To Voting System

Digg Adds Customizable Real-Time Newswire To Voting System

  Let’s be honest for a moment, Digg is a former shell of itself in many ways, however despite all of the site hate lately they did take a major step by attempting, albeit it as a massive failure, to […]