Tuesday, October 13, 2009
He Can Haz Big Blog Empire
Who knew pictures of cats with funny misspelled captions would evolve into one of the bigger indie blog networks in the world?
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
FTC Cracks Down on Blogger Payola, Celebrity Tweets
The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on blogger payola.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Want 5,000 More Facebook Friends? That’ll Be $654.30.
If you’re a Gmail user who also happens to use Twitter, it’s probably been about five minutes since you’ve seen an ad promising to boost your follower count.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Blip.tv Brings Programs to YouTube, Ads to “Channel Awesome”
What does the TV network of the future look like? A version of it is coming into focus at New York-based startup blip.tv.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Google Looks to Campuses for “Cloud” Converts
Google’s got a not-so-secret weapon in its bid to convert the world to applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Sites and, soon, Google’s Chrome operating system: the 17 million college students on more than 4,000 campuses across the country.
Monday, June 29, 2009
How Get-Rich-Quick Ads Steal Google’s Brand Equity
In a world of double-digit unemployment and old-line industries in mid-collapse, here’s a sales pitch tailor-made for the times: “Get Paid by Google.”
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Gawker Chief: ‘Original Reporting Will Be Rewarded’
Gawker Media impresario Nick Denton, one of the more vocal Cassandras of media collapse last fall, got a surprise this spring when things turned out to be, well, not so bad.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Newspapers Build Digital Portfolios
Myth: newspapers stuck their heads in the sand and just hoped the internet would go away.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
YouTube Moving the Needle on Ad Sales
YouTube is still Google’s toughest sell to advertisers, but the video site is doing better by one measure than most people think: YouTube is selling ads against about nine percent of its video views in the U.S., up from just six percent a year ago.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Hotspot Shield: Destroyer of Google, Yahoo and NBC?
Consider, for a moment, what would happen if the identities, geographies and surfing histories of a large number of Internet users suddenly became invisible.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Can Hulu Hold Off TV.com?
When NBC Universal and News Corp. created Hulu, they gave the video portal a valuable but short-term asset: exclusive rights to distribute NBC and Fox shows outside of the media giants’ own websites. Hulu.com has become the fourth-biggest online video distributor. But with exclusivity deal ending soon, Hulu will have to see if it can defend the audience and brand it has built.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Web Series Still Struggle to Hold on to Audiences
MyDamnChannel’s “You Suck at Photoshop” is a near-perfect series for the Web: short, funny and low-budget, it both doesn’t require viewers to commit to a series and actually provides some useful information for those of us who do, in fact, suck at Photoshop.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
NBC’s Samberg: Still King of YouTube
NBC is supposed to give all its hit “Saturday Night Live” clips to its online joint venture, Hulu, not YouTube, right? Well, not always, apparently. Andy Samberg’s “J**z in My Pants” has racked up 6.7 million views on YouTube, and is the most-watched video of the past month.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Letterman YouTube Video Outdraws CBS Clip
Sen. John McCain’s snub of David Letterman last week may have deprived the “Late Show” host of some needed star power last week, but it’s given him a hit on the Web.
Monday, September 15, 2008
YouTube’s Seth MacFarlane Channel Looking Like a Hit
Credit “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane’s genius, or maybe just YouTube’s distribution clout: his channel, “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy,” has taken the No. 1 spot on YouTube, edging out Tania Derveaux and AtheneWins.
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