• Vevo Turns Up The Mobile Volume by Mark Walsh

    Vevo last month held a splashy "NewFront" event, featuring a sizzle real previewing a half dozen original new shows, an advertising panel discussion, and a live performance by the singer John Legend. Along with new programming and a recently revamped site featuring Facebook integration, the music video hub is building out its mobile presence to meet rising demand from users and marketers alike. ...Read the whole story

  • ABC Player Downloads Spike by David Goetzl

    Looking to generate advertiser interest prior to the upfront, ABC said its full-episode app for Apple devices has passed the 5 million mark in downloads. That's up from the 3 million that ABC told MediaPost it had surpassed less than six months ago. ...Read the whole story

  • WaPo Digital Revenue Down, Hopes Up by Gavin O'Malley

    The Washington Post Company had a bad first quarter -- and, even worse, its new media division did little to offset its old media losses. First-quarter revenue generated by newspaper online publishing activities -- primarily WashingtonPost.com and Slate -- decreased 7% annually to $24.2 million. Display-advertising revenue declined 11% year-over-year, while online classified ad revenue on washingtonpost.com fell by a single percentage point. ...Read the whole story

  • Business Owners Seek To Revive Payola Lawsuit Against Yelp by Wendy Davis

    A group of local business owners are asking an appellate court to revive their "extortion" lawsuit against the review site Yelp. The business owners alleged in a case dating to 2010 that Yelp tried to extort them by promising to bury bad reviews and promote good ones in exchange for ad buys. ...Read the whole story

  • eXelate Finds New Uses For Online Data by Laurie Sullivan

    Data company eXelate has begun to offer clients aggregate historic data across industries to identify trends in travel, retail, finance and other industries, building out spreadsheets and infographs to provide visual support for geographic online ad targeting. ...Read the whole story

  • 4As To MPA: Beef Up Digital Mag Metrics, Procedures by Joe Mandese

    Citing the "need for greater transparency and accountability with digital offerings" among magazine brands including tablets, the 4A's Print Media Committee has called on the MPA (Association of Magazine Media) to consider new recommendations on metrics and procedures for reporting the audiences of digital editions. ...Read the whole story

  • Facebook Acquires Location-Based App Glancee by Steve Smith

    Facebook has acquired a mobile and Facebook app maker that helps alert users when their friends are nearby. The move comes in advance of Facebook executives pitching investors on the company's upcoming IPO. ...Read the whole story

  • Collaboration: Sought But Not Practiced by Jeff Smith

    Everyone agrees collaboration is essential. Direct collaboration, however, is far from the norm. What's the problem? It often starts with the fact that everyone fails ... ...More

Viacom's Lucas: Focus On All Fronts, Not NewFronts Or Upfronts by Jeff Lucas

Perhaps the message the media industry is sending to the marketplace -- as we jockey for juxtaposition, starting NewFronts to compete with Upfronts -- is ... ...More

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