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- eBook Distributor Smashwords Buys Online Self-Publisher BookHabit
- Smashwords, which was one of the first eBook distributors to be have its self-publishing platform included in the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) digital bookstore, has acquired author community site Bookhabit. Terms weren’t disclosed, but a source told paidContent the deal was done for just under $1 million.Both companies were...
- External links 2009-11-19
- IAC's Notional Flaunts TV Ambitions; Unveils Slate
- Notional wants to be taken seriously. That might be a little tough ordinarily for a new cross-platform video production company birthed by a website called CollegeHumor but Notional has great genes and, in Barry Diller, a godfather with serious pull. It also has a very real slate with production...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Report: Nielsen Mag Sale Could Come Friday
- A sale of Nielsen’s b2b mag titles to James Finkelstein’s News Communications could come as soon as Friday, TheWrap continues to insist, even as the company signals it plans to keep the properties. While the Nielsen mags in question, including THR, Billboard, Adweek and others, have long been...
- External links 2009-11-19
- MTV Marketing Exec Balsam-Schwaber Departs For iVillage
- Catherine Balsam-Schwaber has left her post as a senior marketing exec at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to take on a similar role at NBC Universal’s iVillage. This is the second high-profile departure at MTVN since Nada Stirratt exited as EVP for Digital Advertising last month to join MySpace as...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Fox Sports Net Quietly Rolls Out A Dozen Local Sites
- While ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) have been grabbing headlines for their online local sports expansions, Fox Sports Net has been rolling out the soft launch of a dozen local sites over the past couple of weeks. So quietly that it took an alert reader to clue...
- External links 2009-11-19
- AP Achieves 10 Percent Payroll Reduction With 90 Layoffs
- The Associated Press’ layoffs this week have satisfied the goal of reducing payroll costs by 10 percent, the wire service said in a statement. The final tally of the layoffs was 90 news department staffers, the AP said. About 71 jobs were represented by the Newspaper Guild, which has...
- External links 2009-11-19
- BBC Sets iPlayer Syndication Terms, Commits To Roll-Outs For Certain Platforms
- The BBC’s plans to share the technology behind the iPlayer with fellow PSBs across the world may have been shot down this week, but it’s still planning to push its on-demand content to as many different third-party platforms as possible.New guidelines issued on Tuesday say third-party deals must be...
- External links 2009-10-21
- NYT To Cut 100 Newsroom Posts
- As it prepares for its Q3 earnings, the New York Times plans to cut 100 newsroom jobs – roughly 8 percent of the edit workforce – by the end of the year, the NYT reports. The workforce reduction will come through a mix of buyouts to union and non-union...
- External links 2009-10-19
- @Variety Ent/Tech Summit: More 'Cheap' M&A Deals By Big Media Companies On The Horizon
- Online ad spending and M&A forecasts are a dime-a-dozen – but that hasn’t stopped investment research firms like Soleil-Media Metrics from continuing to make them. Laura Martin, the firm’s managing director, told Variety Tech/Ent Summit attendees that she’s seeing signs – particularly in the advertising industry – that the...
- External links 2009-10-19
- @Variety Ent/Tech Summit: How DVR Is Forcing The Networks?And Nielsen?To Change
- Appointment-based TV viewing is on the wane, with more people choosing to spend a weekend catching up on a month’s worth of episodes of their favorite show. Problem is, most networks currently can’t monetize those time-shifted views once they’ve passed the three-day mark. That has to change, according to...
- External links 2009-10-19
- HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau: 'We Are Now In The Big Leagues'
- The news spread quickly, aided by PR and the characteristic web glee anytime an online property appears to be leaving old media in the dust: the September numbers for comScore and Nielsen showed Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post beating WashingtonPost.com in unique visitors for the first time. Coincidentally,...
- External links 2009-10-19
- E-Reader Madness: The Nook, The Que, The Alex
- —Barnes & Noble: A Barnes & Noble event is set for Tuesday in NYC—and expect the bookstore chain to unveil its first e-reader there. Some additional details on the device, from a WSJ report: It’s priced at $259, will feature a color screen, and has been coined the Nook....
- External links 2009-10-20
- Earnings: FT Group Paid Subs Drive Slim Revenue Growth
- FT Group’s paid content strategy is steering the business back into revenue growth, as it announces a three percent sales lift for the first nine months of the year and a 10 percent revenue rise with the favourable dollar exchange rate.Parent group Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said in an interim...
- External links 2009-10-20
- TownNews.com Signs Up To AP's Online News Microformat
- Online newspaper publisher TownNews.com has signed up as the first user of a new “microformat” for online news, designed to increase articles’ search ratings. The hNews format is built by AP and the UK-based Media Standards Trust and is being used by TownNews on its BLOX CMS platform, which...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Video: Steve Case On AOL Spin, Health Content Biz & More
- Steve Case joined his business partner Ted Leonsis on CNBC this morning to talk about Revolution LLC and a number of topics. The former chairman of AOL Time Warner and vice chairman emeritus of AOL, respectively, have been openly supportive of Tim Armstrong and of Time Warner’s plans to...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Nickelodeon Acquires Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franchise For $60 Million
- MTV Networks’ Nickelodeon has acquired the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT franchise, for $60 million. The bulk of the payout goes to The Mirage Group—the company founded by the franchise’s creators, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird—but embattled media company 4Kids Entertainment will get roughly $11 million from the deal,...
- External links 2009-10-21
- In Original Content Push, Yahoo Partners With GroupM To Get Big Advertisers On Board
- Look for more sponsored content to come to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The company is partnering with WPP’s GroupM Entertainment to “help marketers creatively incorporate their brands into original online programming” across Yahoo properties. GroupM is already behind two big and successful sponsored content deals on Yahoo sites: The TechTicker...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Fox Audience Network Tries For Expansion Through Agency Tie-Ins; Teams With Omnicom On Ad Buys
- The Fox Audience Network is working with Omnicom Media Group on an online ad targeting and buying platform called Living Segments, which the two hope will raise their respective profiles. Essentially, the platform is an extension of FAN’s existing network, which lets marketers bid on inventory according on to...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Click Fix: How Digital Advertising Can Get Its Game Back
- Jim Spanfeller is the outgoing president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.Get clicks or build brand? That question, long a hot topic within the online-media community, has taken on new urgency recently with the...
- External links 2009-10-20
- Earnings: Media General Swings To Loss, But Sees Signs Of Slowing Ad Declines
- Media General (NYSE: MEG) wasn’t able to hit profitability this week as its newspaper publishing peers like Journal Communications (NYSE: JRN), McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) and Gannett (NYSE: GCI) did this week, as it swung to a net loss of $62.5 million. The Richmond, Va.-based owner of The Tampa...
- External links 2009-10-21
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