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- CBS Relaunching TV.com; Hoping Finally To Become A Video Player; Aiming Beyond Hulu, Not At It
- *CBS* Interactive is relaunching TV.com, hoping to transform the well-named site known for its TV-related community and user-generated content into a serious video destination, paidContent has learned. The full-scale relaunch with new content partners is slated for January but the cosmetic changes will start this week with a new...
- External links 2008-12-15
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- CBS Interactive To Merge CBSNews.com and CNET Newsrooms; Some Layoffs
- CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), under pressure to cut costs after what now seems like an even more costly acquisition of CNET, is announcing some more restructuring tomorrow, we have learned from reliable sources late tonight, and as part of it, will be merging CBSNews.com and CNET newsrooms. Not clear:...
- External links 2008-12-11
- CBS Interactive Confirms CBSNews.com/CNET Newsroom Combo; No Word On Layoffs
- CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is confirming paidContent's earlier story that it is merging the newsrooms belonging to CBSNews.com and CNET into one. However, an emailed statement offered no specifics on layoffs or how the websites would be altered. The CBSI statement obliquely states the integration process between the two...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Display Ad Spending Thaws, CBS Interactive Promises A Move Beyond The Banner Ad
- Recent reports have suggested that display advertising is experiencing a tentative comeback, which is partially being attributed to the adoption of larger ad formats over the past few months by publishers inside and outside the Online Publishers Association. CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), which posted 14 percent decline in revenues...
- External links 2009-11-09
- Industry Moves: Patrick Keane Out Of CBS Interactive Position
- Patrick Keane, the former Googler who was the EVP and CM at CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), has been transitioning out of his position, and hasn't been in office in the last month, sources have confirmed, following an earlier report from Mediamemo. He was brought in early last year by...
- External links 2008-12-09
- CBS Interactive Reorg: More Info and Merging of Some Units; Internal Memo
- We reported first on the CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) reorg and layoffs last night, and since then, it has been confirmed by the company, and some other bits of info have been trickling out. Now, from the internal memo sent out earlier today by Qunicy Smith (posted here at...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Flash!(CBS Interactive)(Parents Television Council)(Time Warner Cable )
- Edited by Joel Topcik CBS' Schwartz Cleans Up Bing's BS, Again Joel Topcik Reading the press release naming Quincy Smith as president of the newly formed CBS Interactive last week (see...
- Research articles 2006-11-13
- Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive
- —Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role, Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter.—Discovery Communications: Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution, tasked with expanding the...
- External links 2009-11-11
- CBS Interactive's Smith: Authentication's Not Around The Corner
- The concept of “TV Everywhere” won’t reach critical mass until perhaps 2014 and even that date is uncertain, said CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, speaking on the B&C/Multichannel News’ sponsored TV Everywhere and Anywhere panel at the Paley Center. The main problems preventing wider adoption of cable...
- External links 2009-08-18
- CBS Interactive and Head & Shoulders have inked a partnership related to the original scripted web series Heckle U, starring Tom Arnold and Owen Benjamin
- CBS Interactive and Head & Shoulders have inked a partnership related to the original scripted web series Heckle U, starring Tom Arnold and Owen Benjamin. Each webisode will premiere on CBS.com, TV.com, and across the CBS Audience Network. In addition to watching the series online, viewers will be...
- Research articles 2009-03-01
- Quincy Smith Leaving CBS In January; Signs Multi-Year Deal As Adviser
- It’s official. Deal maker Quincy Smith is leaving as CEO of CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) after three years to start a consulting business with CBS as the first client. The news, broken first by Kara Swisher, is being announced by CBS this afternoon. Neil Ashe will remain as president,...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Leslie Moonves, Quincy Smith And CBS Three Years, A Couple Of Billion Later
- Quincy Smith came to CBS in late 2006 to make deals and make them he did—with just about everyone but Hulu. He had been advising CEO Leslie Moonves on corporate internet strategy as an investment banker for Allen & Co. In an interview with paidContent this afternoon about “the...
- External links 2009-10-28
- CBS' Departing Digital Chief Will Be Free Agent of Change
- Outgoing CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith says one of his priorities as an independent consultant will be finding ways to make the $120 billion television market profitable online. "How do you turn television buyers into video buyers?" Smith said this week. "There is a...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Exclusive: CBS Digital CEO Smith to Leave to Start a Silicon Valley Advisory Firm (First Customer? CBS) [BoomTown]
- Quincy Smith, the high-profile CEO of CBS Interactive, is planning on leaving his job at the media giant in January to start an advisory firm in Silicon Valley, according several sources. But, in an interesting twist, Smith pictured here will remain an advisor to CBS under a multi-year contract, sources...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Last.fm Lays Off Around 20 Staff, Part Of CBS/CNET Integration
- Last night, Last.fm staff in London were celebrating their Christmas party at a venue complete with hot tub. Through today's hangover, they heard about 20 percent are being disposed of as parent CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) restructures in a cost-cutting move. CBS, which splashed out $280 million in May...
- External links 2008-12-11
- CBS Layoffs: Where Are They Hiding the Bodies?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The pink slips were passed out on Thursday throughout the various business duchies that make up CBS Interactive—CNET, CBS.com, CBSNews,com, CBSSports.com, BNET, GameSpot, TV.com, last.fm, and CHOW. While CBS CBS confirmed to me and other reporters that layoffs did happen across the board, it refused to...
- External links 2008-12-12
- CBS' Shows Only Two Clicks Away from Hulu's Home Page
- Even though the deal was expected, a fair amount of news outlets are getting tied up in their underwear over Disney/ABC agreeing to put its video content up on Hulu, along with NBC and Fox (and take a 30 percent stake in the venture). One reason this is big news...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Last.fm To Take Over CBS HD Broadcast Stations In Four Markets
- While most radio stations are looking for ways to expand their online presence, CBS Interactive Music Group is doing the opposite with social music site Last.fm. by giving the brand an all new station to be broadcast on the company’s HD multicast stations. Last.fm will effectively take over CBS...
- External links 2009-09-11
- CBS Digital Boss Quincy Smith's Not-Quite Exit Interview: "Hulu's a Great Service. That's Part of the Problem." [MediaMemo]
- Quincy Smith has finally announced that he's sort-of leaving CBS, but will stay on as an advisor on its Web video strategy. So it seems like a good time for him to explain just what CBS's Web video strategy is. The short version is that unlike its broadcast peers, CBS...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Industry Moves Round Up: Tribal Fusion; Warner Bros.; Adgregate Markets; and CBS
- —Tribal Fusion: Harris Bernstein is the new Regional VP of Sales for the digital-marketing company, overseeing the West and Midwest regions. He was previously a Regional Sales Director at Platform-A.—Warner Bros. Entertainment: Former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) exec Dave Dickman has joined WBE as SVP, Digital Media Sales. —Adgregate Markets:...
- External links 2009-10-16
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