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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- As it gets ready to officially take ownership of BusinessWeek magazine, Bloomberg is looking for help with global branding and advertising across its portfolio of media properties.In a request for information sent out to agencies, Bloomberg said it's looking to establish an agency-of-record agreement (Read More)
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Work in progressRevenue dropped to $7.1 billion but News Corp (NYSE: NWS). still turned in an 11 percent increase in profit in its first fiscal quarter, thanks, in part, to the way it handled expenses for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Not much thanks, though, to the Newspap (Read More)
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Revenue dropped to $7.1 billion but News Corp (NYSE: NWS) still turned in an 11 percent increase in profit in its first fiscal quarter, thanks, in part, to the way it handled expenses for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Not much thanks, though, to the Newspapers and Informati (Read More)
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» IAC (NSDQ: IACI) is considering a deal that would make College Humor part of Ben Silverman’s new entertainment company. [AdAge]» Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is letting “Amazon Associates” make referral money from a Twitter widget in their account. [TechCrunch]» Comcast’s internet (Read More)
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French ad holding company Publicis Groupe is losing its top digital media M&A and investment exec: Tim Hanlon. Hanlon serves as EVP and managing director of VivaKi Ventures, Publicis’ new media VC arm; Mediapost reports that he’s leaving the company at the end of the month. The news comes just a day after Publicis finalized (Read More)
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I am delighted to come to Beijing and share thoughts with my colleagues in the media and my friends from around the globe. Confucius noted that those who seek constant happiness must often change – now, I’m no sage but it is fair to say that we are today confronted by unprecedented change and challenge, and if we don’t adap (Read More)
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http://www.beet.tv/2009/07/lionsgate-realizing-95-margins-on-profitable-digital-business.htmlHOLLYWOOD, Calif -- Whoever said digital media wasn't profitable wasn't talking to Lionsgate's Curt Marvis.The president of digital media told Beet.TV that the company's digital business is realizing 95% profit margins across new me (Read More)
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Michael Jackson tributes and book-a-zines have generated $55 million in additional newsstand sales for magazine publishers, providing one bright spot, however somber, amid widespread newsstand declines so far this year."Based on our estimates, we're at about almost $67 million in Michael Jackson prod (Read More)
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We reported earlier on the resignation of Jim Spanfeller, CEO of Forbes.com. Steve Forbes, the President and CEO of Forbes, sent out an internal memo earlier today, thanking Spanfeller for his contributions for the last nine years, and mentioning that he will start a new media management company “that will help other tradit (Read More)
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the two weeks since Google announced it would open up AdSense for mobile, serving up text and display ads inside apps, there are signs the online-ad giant -- and marketers -- are still figuring out how to create good experiences for mobile users. (Read More)
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The top 10% of smart-phone users just can't stop. They are the Smartphoniacs, the true addicts of the information age, writes Mark Penn.
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Vince Broady, the former founder of Gamespot and former SVP of entertainment at *Yahoo*, has officially launched his new startup called ThisMoment. The San Francisco-based company has also raised about $3 million in seed funding, from some familiar digital media names like Shelby Bonnie, Mika Salmi, and Jason Hirschhorn; pr (Read More)
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Nevermind the irony that a monthly piece in The Atlantic tries to explain the continued rise of The Economist (and by that token, also rest of the media's continued dissection of why that's happening). Michael Hirschorn writes an essay explaining why the British magazine is thriving while Time and Newsweek are in the inexor (Read More)
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John Temple's paper is out of business but the former Rocky Mountain News editor and publisher isn't. Following an exquisite takedown of the American Press Institute's Craigslist approach to saving the newspaper industry, Temple heard from former Cox Newspapers head Jay Smith (pictured, right) and promptly asked for permiss (Read More)
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Ready for a bullish ad spending forecast? Despite game industry execs arguing that in-game ad spending forecasts from 2008 were probably too high, a new Screen Digest report is pegging global in-game ad spending to top $1 billion by 2014.The research firm acknowledged that "softness" would continue in in-game ad spending fo (Read More)