BARCELONA, Spain—Once a doubter in the future of mobile video, Jonah Peretti is now a believer. In a speech on Tuesday at Mobile World Congress, the BuzzFeed founder announced that his publishing company is launching a mobile video app that's focused on binge-watching. It is available today for iPhone and Android users. (There are no ads in the original version, but a spokeswoman later confirmed that BuzzFeed plans to roll out native advertising down the road.) "Content has really become the exciting battleground in the mobile space," Peretti said. In fact, he said it was just a few years ago that he didn't think mobile video would do well at all. Video requires more bandwidth, is harder to load and might even require headphones. Mobile itself use to kill social distribution, he said, as content viewing would often have to be put on hold until a person got back to their computer. However, Peretti suggested, it quickly became the "only" way for something to go viral. "Increasingly content, and especially mobile video, are becoming a key part of the mobile stack," he said. "It's something that consumers care deeply about. The brand and the content they're consuming on their mobile devices. It affects their decisions of which apps to use, which phones to use, and which content is increasingly becoming one of the major areas of competition in the mobile space." BuzzFeed's audience has grown rapidly, from 100 million monthly content views in 2012 to 6 billion in 2016.... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Myisha Cherry, in a debut book for Oxford University Press, argues that fury toward racism, injustice, and inequality can be a righteous force and that "even God got angry." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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In a brief order, judge Gregory Woods said the move, which is common in consumer class action cases, will bring "efficiency and economy" to what is "likely to be expensive and complicated litigation." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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"Of Women and Salt," tracking generations of Latinas, comes out of Gabriela Garcia's family story, life experience and advocacy for migrants. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-23 19:20:30 UTC ]
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Lawyers for a potential class of e-book consumers have asked a federal judge to consolidate four cases alleging an e-book price-fixing conspiracy among Amazon and the Big Five publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
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“Truly Like Lightning” is an irreverent and ambitious tale that shows off the “X-Files” actor’s literary chops. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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JK Rowling is. John le Carré isn’t. Albert Camus and F. Scott Fitzgerald are. George Orwell might or might not be. I’m talking about registered trade marks. Authors make copyright works, and their agents’ job is to maximise revenues from those intangibles. End of story, right? Kind of. A... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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On January 14, a prominent class-action law firm announced it was suing over alleged price-fixing in the e-book market—the second such suit in a decade. What should we make of the news? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In his address to the APE conference, the Springer Nature CEO makes a determined case for gold over green open access. The post Springer Nature CEO Vrancken Peeters: Case for Gold Open Access appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Prince Edward Island has decided that restaurants will be shut to indoor dining, organized sports will be suspended and libraries and gyms will close for at least the next two weeks in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Continue reading at CBC
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The usual narrative about the 39th president has it backward, Jonathan Alter argues. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Once they had digital media almost to themselves. Now, in a deal led by the BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, two giants of the web plan to join forces to better compete in an increasingly crowded field. Continue reading at The New York Times
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The deal will bring together two of the world's most high-profile digital media firms. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2020-11-19 19:56:28 UTC ]
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As part of the deal, Verizon is acquiring a minority stake in BuzzFeed, which will use the telecom giant’s ad platform to reach more customers. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-11-19 19:16:51 UTC ]
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Acquisition unites two of the largest players in digital mediaNews comes after both companies made deep cutsBuzzFeed has agreed to buy HuffPost the companies said Thursday, uniting two of the largest players in digital media in the latest example of consolidation in the sector.The acquisition is... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Becky Cooper’s book is both a true-crime tale and a quest for justice for the victim. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Penguin Random House executives this week confirmed that the publisher is extending its "temporary" digital license terms for e-books and digital audio in libraries and schools through March 31, 2021. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Pirates of Caribbean actor had sued newspaper publisher for damage to his reputationThe Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has lost his high-stakes libel action in the London courts against the Sun after the newspaper described him as a “wife beater”.The high court dismissed the claim by the Pirates of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-02 11:23:11 UTC ]
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Hodder Studio has pre-empted a "captivating and joyous" debut novel from Buzzfeed editor and writer Tomi Obaro, set in Lagos and following the evolving fates of three best friends. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-30 07:36:18 UTC ]
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When Sonja Livingston began to write about her life with an itinerant mother and six siblings in the raw corners of western New York, she wrote, she says, in snatches. “I wrote of living in apartments and tents and motel rooms. Of places where corn and cabbage grew in great swaths. Of the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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