Friday, November 20, 2009
Consumers: We Don’t Absolutely Hate Mobile Ads
Here’s your half-empty/half-full stat for the day: Four in 10 consumers don’t want to see ads on their phones. Is that good or bad for the nascent mobile ad business?
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Amazon: We Won’t Delete Your Kindle Books Unless We Need to Delete Your Books
It took several months–and a lawsuit–but Jeff Bezos and company are finally explaining when, and why, they’ll take away books you bought for your Kindle. Pretty reasonable, really.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
No Matter How Hard You Try, You Can’t Get Apple to Say Anything Nice About a Netbook
This is now an Apple earnings-call tradition: Analysts try their hardest to convince Apple executives to express interest in the booming market for cheap netbooks and Apple executives make it perfectly clear how much disdain they have for netbooks. But an $800 iTablet? That’s something else altogether…
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Now Things Get Interesting: CBS Joins Comcast’s Web TV Trial
Yet another addition to the growing list of programmers signing on to Comcast’s “On Demand Online”: CBS will join the cable provider’s trial program, which will allow subscribers to get Web access to shows they get on TV.
CBS will join previously announced partners Time Warner, which is offering up programming from its Turner channels and HBO; Liberty Media’s Starz, and smaller players like Scripps, Rainbow and A&E. The twist is that CBS is the only broadcaster to sign up for the trial.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Congress Readies an “Opt-In” Privacy Bill, and the Web Industry Cringes
Here comes the battle the online ad business has been dreading: Congress is drawing up a bill that would require users to sign up to let advertisers track their online behavior–and, if you believe online publishers, more or less destroy the online ad business.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Another Twitter Business That Doesn’t Make Money for Twitter: Pay Per Twitterer
Yet another addition to the Twitter ecosystem of companies based on the microblogging service, but that don’t pay it a dime: Pontiflex, which is trying to charge marketers for each Twitter user name it collects.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore: Let’s Put the Digital “Genie Back in the Bottle” [UPDATED]
Poor John Squires. The Time Inc. SVP seems like an affable fellow. So what has he done to deserve this impossible task–figuring out a digital strategy for Time Warner’s publishing unit? Or, to put it in Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore’s words, figuring out “how to put the genie back in the bottle”?
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Internet Advertisers Say Internet Advertising Keeps America Strong
Did you know that Internet publishing–Internet publishing supported by advertising, that is–creates millions of jobs in this country? It’s true, says a trade group, which is trying to convince Washington that all that is at risk if people start passing pesky laws.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Now Available at iTunes: Price Hikes for Music
Apple has finally rolled out the “flexible pricing” plan it announced earlier this year at its music store. If you’re a casual music consumer, and that phrase doesn’t mean anything to you, let me rephrase it: Many of your favorite songs will now cost 30 percent more at iTunes.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Who’s Still Using AOL? Your Mom.
No one you know visits AOL, but 109 million people go there every month. Who are they? Primarily 45 to 65-year-old women, says the ad agency working for AOL.com–which would like the portal’s core site to attract a slightly younger audience.
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