• Viacom Lures Flannigan From AOL by Wendy Davis

    Erik Flannigan, vice president of programming at AOL, is leaving the company to join Viacom, where he will help lead digital efforts at Comedy Central and Spike TV, OnlineMediaDaily has learned. ...Read the whole story

  • Coca-Cola Joins Exploding Soda Craze by Shankar Gupta

    The Coca-Cola company has unwittingly played a starring role in one of this year's biggest viral video hits--the exploding Diet Coke-Mentos clips, which show soda spurting out of bottles doctored with Mentos mints. Now, the company is formally embracing the phenomenon. ...Read the whole story

  • Fox Debuts 'The O.C.' On MySpace by Wendy Davis

    Continuing its pattern of harnessing online properties to promote TV shows, News Corp. will stream the fourth season premiere of "The O.C." on MySpace and 24 local TV Web sites starting Thursday, one week before the show's broadcast date. ...Read the whole story

  • Google Gives Publishers New Search Tool by Shankar Gupta

    Google Tuesday unveiled a new product that will allow publishers to create tailor-made search engines for their sites. The tool will allow publishers to put query boxes on their sites and also choose which sites Google indexes for the customized search engine. ...Read the whole story

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