BlogHer, a women’s ad network/publishing network and conference organizer, is cutting the amount it pays to its blog partners by 10 percent. That’s really sort of a double cut, since the blog owners/writers in its network get paid based on the ads BlogHer can sell, and ads are already under pressure.
Are you still thinking there might be growth in the online ad market next year? Perhaps this will disabuse you of the notion: New numbers from an industry trade group indicate that growth has already stopped for everyone except Google.
The Washington Post Company’s Q3 report card is bad. But it’s better than the last one the troubled newspaper and education company earned. And yes, you have to be in the media business to look at a seven percent yearly decline in revenue, which is what Wapo’s newspaper group recorded, as a positive. But that decrease is indeed better than Q2, when newspaper revenues were down 13 percent.
Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
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