The digital media company Bustle Digital Group (BDG) laid off seven editorial staff of its title Fatherly on Friday and will significantly decrease its editorial output going forward, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision marks the latest in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-02-12 17:50:23 UTC ]
Digital media company G/O Media is shopping around its portfolio of editorial assets in hopes of securing buyers for individual titles, part of a broader effort to divest the properties ahead of another challenging year for the media industry, according to four people... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-01-24 09:52:22 UTC ]
Livestream platform Twitch quietly ended a series of multiyear partnerships in 2023 that it brokered with publishers including Rolling Stone, Complex and Vice, according to three people familiar with the agreements. Twitch invited the publishers to establish channels on... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2024-01-18 10:34:51 UTC ]
Digital media companies Vox Media and Group Nine Media are planning a merger, people familiar with the matter tell Adweek. The combined company would instantly become one of the largest digital media publishers in the U.S., helping it compete more effectively against the scale of social... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2021-12-13 22:11:18 UTC ]
Digital media company Minute Media is in talks to buy the Players’ Tribune, a website started by former baseball star Derek Jeter, according to people familiar with the matter. While the companies... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2019-11-07 10:57:10 UTC ]
Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s a collaboration between Lab126, the hardware development group behind Amazon’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-05-23 22:06:23 UTC ]
The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new subscription news service run by Apple, even as some other major publishers balked at the terms, two people familiar with the plans said. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Investment firm Donerail Group and newspaper publishers McClatchy Co. and AIM Media have submitted bids for Tribune Publishing Co., according to people familiar with the matter. Tribune’s board is scheduled to meet early next week after bids for the assets came due Thursday, said the people, who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Omarosa Manigault Newman was offered a US$15,000 (NZ$22,792)-a-month contract from US President Donald Trump's campaign to stay silent after being fired from her job as a White House aide by Chief of Staff John Kelly last December, according to her forthcoming book and people familiar with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is revamping Google News with a new design that will incorporate elements of the Newsstand app and YouTube, according to people familiar with the plans.The search giant is expected to unveil the new digital media destination next week at its developer conference, and it has been talking... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is said to be offering hundreds of millions of dollars to music publishers and record labels to avoid having to take down user-generated videos that feature copyrighted music. Bloomberg cites "people familiar with the matter" as saying Facebook's payments will allow for the legal use of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
YouTube, on an aggressive push to expand its footprint in online video, is said to be offering publishers more control over their own ad inventory in order to win their business.The site is offering major publishers who choose its backend video player the ability to control ad sales both on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon plans to announce a cloud-based header bidding solution aimed squarely at publishers as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.Header bidding has become one of the most important areas of ad tech because it lets publishers take more offers for their ads at once... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is bringing its ad network to Apple TV and beyond.The social network is feeling for new advertising ground in Apple TV and Roku by delivering ads to apps on those streaming video platforms, according to people familiar with the plans.The test represents an expansion of Facebook Audience... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pinterest plans to launch its Explore section with a fitting publisher, Scripps Networks Interactive -- the owner of Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel, according to people familiar with the media partnership.Pinterest also could bring Tastemade into the fold, one of the people said.Explore... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
How will FT’s Tett chief feature on Nikkei’s index, Andrew Gowers pours oil on troubled waters and BBC’s director general goes jogging in the dark• Gillian Tett is the FT’s US managing editor, the position Lionel Barber occupied before becoming editor 10 years ago. And last week’s Nikkei deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers are ready to ramp up content distribution on Facebook’s Instant Articles in the coming days, people familiar with the matter said, with some newsrooms preparing to post a few dozen stories a day. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
n">Reuters) - Buyout firm Apollo Global Management LLC is in advanced talks to acquire most of the assets of Digital First Media, publisher of the Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News, for around $400 million, according to people familiar ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, is close to naming former TV executive Rich Battista to lead the company's largest brand, People magazine, as well as its sibling publication Entertainment Weekly, according to two people familiar with the matter.The position -- president of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook continues its campaign to invade Google's ad-tech turf.Facebook is building an ad exchange that would automate the sale of other publishers' ads, according to people familiar with the matter. LiveRail, the online video ad-tech firm that Facebook bought last summer, will be the one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]