Without big news to push, some publishers sit out NewFronts

Fresh off the heels of its $2.8 billion acquisition of Time Inc., Meredith made its NewFronts debut on Thursday morning, pitching its upcoming video to an assembly of digital ad buyers. But Meredith's arrival comes as the number of presenters at the annual New York event has dropped to 16 from 32 last year and the schedule has contracted to one week from two.The Interactive Advertising Bureau, which organizes the event series, is also planning a new, week-long Los Angeles edition. But it is slated for October, well after the TV upfronts that inspired the NewFronts in the first place.For some online publishers, the NewFronts serve as an excellent place to add sizzle to a company's new offering. Bloomberg Media sat out this year, for example, but used the 2017 NewFronts to promote TicToc, its new video channel on Twitter. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BuzzFeed's Jon Steinberg Trumpets Shift to Hard News

Adweek: Tell me about BuzzFeed’s Social Storytelling program, which you launched in May. Jon Steinberg: It’s very much evocative of the kind of authorization and training programs that we did when I was at Google [where Steinberg was strategic partner development manager on the company’s small... Continue reading at AdWeek

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Guinness World Records Signs Deal with China’s Largest ELT Publisher

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales, Profits Up at Lagardere Publishing

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Making News More LIke "Grand Theft Auto"

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[ Fast Company | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ AdWeek | 2013-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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AMA Shuts Down News Magazine

Citing a spiral of declining ad revenues, the American Medical Association (AMA) will stop publishing the print edition and website of American Medical News next month. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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