Musical.ly debuts its first original shows today -- the first of a few it will be rolling out over the coming weeks. The company has signed original content deals with entertainment groups Viacom, NBCUniversal and Hearst Magazines. Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Sun has been experimenting with a Facebook Messenger chatbot for a month, pushing football content. During this time, it published 263 notifications. The frequency increased as the transfer window deadline loomed. On this one day, 43 percent of the subscribers (who number in the low... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charter Communications' proposed takeover of two other cable companies — Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks — is nearing the finish line as federal officials appear poised to approve the mammoth $67-billion deal in the coming weeks.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
One-year-old tech company Authenticated Digital says it has a system that will authenticate 90 percent of digital ad impressions, and it's pitching the software to agencies and publishers starting today. Its program is designed to determine if a promo ran on the correct Web page—did it appear... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to social media, it's becoming safe to say that we'll remember 2015 as the year of Snapchat. The app was already wildly popular with high school and college students, accruing 100 million daily users, but in the last several months, it's become a media and marketing force to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jean-Luc Morel, sales manager for Penguin in France, is to retire from the company after 25 years. Morel’s last day will be 22nd September. In the coming weeks he will hand his work over to existing members of the Penguin Random House international sales team: Pauline Konink, sales manager for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
P.M. Sukumar, CEO of HarperCollins India, has decided to leave the company to pursue other Interests. A replacement for Sukumar will be named in the coming weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK’s group commercial director, Nigel Waters, is to leave the business at Easter. The company is still working out where Waters’ team will report, and an announcement about some new roles and responsibilities is to follow in the coming weeks, PRH said. Ian Hudson, deputy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan in the US has reached a new multi-year deal with Amazon, including an agency deal on ebooks. But in a carefully worded blog and letter to authors, Macmillan chief executive John Sargent hit out at the failure to address “one of the big problems in the digital marketplace”, namely that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Justin Smith, CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is slated to wrap up a 100-day review of the company in the coming weeks, when he is expected to offer recommendations on the future of the global media conglomerate's TV division and digital and print operations, including Bloomberg Businessweek.His... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Livefyre, a real-time social conversation and curation platform, announced it has acquired Realtidbits, a 6-year-old provider of real-time commenting and analytics services to online publishers including The CW Network, Thomson Reuters and Dow Jones Local Media Group. Livefyre’s primary... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The fate of several prominent U.S. newspapers could be irrevocably altered in coming weeks as publishers make restructuring moves. Facing declining ad revenue and readership, large newspaper companies are cutting costs, eliminating or selling assets ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Long form digital journalism publisher and app developer The Atavist secured a round of funding worth $1.5 million. The first million was confirmed last week, while founder Evan Ratliff says the rest is committed and “will happen over the coming weeks.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]