Federated Media Gives Up On Direct Sales, Puts Focus On Programmatic

The rise of programmatic advertising has wreaked havoc across digital media, giving media buyers far more leverage while pushing down the value of publisher inventory. It has also torn apart the traditional ad network business, which is one reason Federated Media, today announced it would stop battling the tide.The company will sell its direct sales, or "content marketing" business, to LIN Media for an undisclosed amount and focus entirely on its programmatic business."As a venture backed company, it's always a difficult decision to sell a business, but you want to do the right thing for the people and the partners that got you to where you are and I think this does that," said John Battelle, who founded Federated nine years ago and will transition from the company's CEO to its executive chairman. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2014-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mode Media raises $30 million for lifestyle media publishing platform

Lifestyle media company Mode Media raised $30 million in Series G funding on Thursday to invest in its technology platform. Hubert Burda Media led the round, according to TechCrunch. The company has raised $186 million in equity funding to date. CEO Samir Arora co-founded the Brisbane-based... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Thrillist Media Group Is the Latest Media Company to Launch an In-House Agency

Want to get through to the hard-to-reach millennial male? Thrillist Media Group thinks it knows the formula. The digital publisher announced the creation of The CoLab, its own in-house agency that will work with brands to create native activations and content. "We wanted to have one cohesive... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why Vox Media makes content just for social media

Facebook isn't sharing native-video revenue with publishers yet. But when it does, Vox Media plans to be ready, with content that’s designed to live only on social platforms. The post Why Vox Media makes content just for social media appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Guardian Media Group to sell 50.1% stake in Trader Media Group

Guardian, Observer and theguardian.com publisher to invest sale proceeds, thought to be £600m to £700m, in core businessGuardian Media Group is selling its 50.1% stake in Auto Trader owner Trader Media Group to private equity firm Apax Partners in a deal thought to be worth £600m to £700m to the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Holiday Retail Sales Dip at B&N, Nook Sales Plunge

Holiday sales for the nine-week period ended December 28 fell 6.6% at Barnes & Noble’s retail segment and tumbled 60.5% in its Nook division. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An Old Media Veteran Goes Digital at Glam Media

Glam Media, one of the largest digital media companies, has hired magazine publishing veteran Dan Lagani as its first president and chief revenue officer, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Complex Media Launches Alternative Food Media Site

Complex Media, a trend-spotting network of style, sports and entertainment media aimed at 18-34 year old males, has now entered the food space with the launch of FirstWeFeast.com. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Media Equation: Huffington Magazine Continues Digital Media’s Incursion

Arianna Huffington speaking at the party last week for Huffington, the new iPad weekly magazine. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bobit Business Media Acquires Newport Business Media

Bobit Business Media, the b-to-b media company specializing in the vehicle-fleet business, announced Tuesday that it has has acquired Newport Business Media, whose brands include Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT), TruckingInfo.com, Heavy Duty Aftermarket Journal and Newport Poster Network. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media Decoder Blog: New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media

The newest owner of The New Republic magazine is Chris Hughes, a new media guru who co-founded Facebook and helped to run the online organizing machine for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Printed book sales fall as Christmas digital sales rise

Physical book sales in the final week of the year totalled £22.5m — down 70% week on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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comScore Partners with Buddy Media to Offer Social Media Analytics

Digital analytics provider comScore and social media marketing software company Buddy Media have entered into a strategic partnership that aims to offer marketers a more quantifiable way to evaluate their social media efforts. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wright’s Media And Penton Media Announce Content Licensing And Reprints Deal

Wright’s Media announced an agreement with Penton Media; this agreement gives Wright’s Media the opportunity to provide exclusive reprint and content licensing services to Penton Media. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble Digital Sales Quadruple, Retail Sales Decline

Bookseller and newsstand provider Barnes and Noble had a strong first quarter with its digital content, sales in that channel quadrupled. Though digital sales have had some tenacious growth, sales at retail decreased by more than $25.7 million or 3 percent. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Back-End Tools Sales Teams Use to Manage, Monitor and Close the Integrated Sale

In the more simple days of selling, advertising sales executives dealt in print, closing deals on a monthly cycle. Now, as technology drives opportunities for publishers, sales execs are faced with an ever-growing portfolio of products and services to offer to clients. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Export sales growth outstripping home sales

Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 24/02/2011 - 15:36 Scottish publishers have been encouraged to adopt a more global outlook as the UK economic climate continues to suffer, with figures presented by Book Marketing Limited highlighting the growing value of export sales.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kindle sales reaching 80% of physical sales, DBW told

Written By: Gayle Feldman Kindle sales of a book could be as much as 80% of its physical sales, Amazon's head of Kindle content told Digital Book World. Russ Grandinetti's speech, 'To Help Publishers Optimize E-book Sales', coincided with the launch of Kindle Singles on Amazon's Kindle store.... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Print Book Sales Fell 4% in April as Nonfiction Struggles

The decline was due in part to an earlier Easter this year, as well as the continued soft sales in the nonfiction category, according to Circana BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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This Times Square breastfeeding ad for lactation cookies was taken down, sparking a social media debate

The campaign, featuring pregnant and near-nude celebrity cookbook author Molly Baz, was deemed indecent by a billboard company ahead of Mother’s Day. In case you missed it, last week, Times Square was the home of a 45-foot billboard featuring an image of pregnant celebrity cookbook author Molly... Continue reading at Fast Company

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‘I have my iPhone, X and a brain in my head’: Ukrainian journalist and social media star Illia Ponomarenko

Ahead of the publication of his raw account of the Russian invasion, the reporter talks about capturing the conflict in real time – and when the war will come to an endIllia Ponomarenko was mulling over the idea of writing a book about the war in his home country, Ukraine. He decided to ask his... Continue reading at The Guardian

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