Media Decoder Blog: Breakfast Meeting, Nov. 18
Political ads are good business for networks, the treatment of reporters at Zuccotti Park generates more controversy and Yelp files for a $100 million initial public offering.
The newsonomics of the Swift Street Courtyard
You want local? The Swift Street Courtyard is local. Amid all the many abstractions about local and hyperlocal, Patch and reader/ad match, print migration and monetization, the institution of the Swift Street Courtyard whispered something to me about "local" last week. It's a story of missed opportunities — and figuring out who will finally take...
The Most Vicious "I Hate My Cable Company" Rant You’ll Ever Read
"Yelp does not review serial killers, but if they did, his babaganoush would be better than yours, if you both made babaganoush, even if his drugged and murdered people."
The Most Vicious "I Hate My Cable Company" Rant You’ll Ever Read
"Yelp does not review serial killers, but if they did, his babaganoush would be better than yours, if you both made babaganoush, even if his drugged and murdered people."
Elevation Makes Another Media Bet, Ups MarketShare Investment
Elevation Partners, the high profile private equity firm, has made another bet on the media business: It has invested $32 million into Marketshare, an analytics company that helps advertisers figure out the best way to spend their budgets.
The Newsonomics of the digital mercado
The winning local marketplace will figure out how to combine deep, broad shopping info, social reviews, deals — and fully embrace the interactive and visual capabilities of the tablet computer. Just as the iPad and its newer cousins represent the big do-over opportunity for news companies' reader business models, they're also literally a blank slate...
SeedSpeak: A geolocation app for better civic engagement
We're all too familiar with terms like "community" and "engagement" when talking about online news. But what if we take it back to the root? Not Twitter followers, blog comments, or Quora questions, but instead a group of people trying to do something together? SeedSpeak, a 2010 Knight News Challenge winner, is trying to...
The Newsonomics of eight-percent reach
That 92-percent "open" market — maybe 23 million businesses — tells us how early we are in this digital marketing movement. Commerce change is one thing. For those who care about the news, the big thing to watch is whether those dollars, as they move digitally, move to companies that produce news, distribute news —...
US senators demand Facebook privacy changes
Let users decide which websites their personal information is shared with,
demand Democrats
The Media Equation: Location Is Being Redefined for the Digital Age
Location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla were the talk of the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Tex.
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Yelp, Extortion, Spam, and … Oh, Just Stop It!
Yelp has run into its share of problems, with a third lawsuit emerging, alleging that their advertising sales practices are akin to "extortion."
On top of this, the tone of comments about the company -- at least in some circles -- has turned nasty.
Yelp is popular, so they've got a big target on...
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