Advertising Age
Conde Nast will partner with Delta Air Lines to sell ad space on the airline's website, airport kiosks and boarding passes -- the first time the publisher of glossy mags will sell ad space that's not its own, writes Nat Ives. The deal is part of Conde Nast's move to diversify by providing marketing services to outside firms.
Hitfix
Here's the TV industry news from last night's Golden Globes: preliminary figures put this version "as the show’s most-watched telecast in six years — up 20 percent from last year with a 13.1 rating," writes
James Hibberd on Ew.com.And not one broadcast show won an award, as
Hollywood Reporter's Michael O'Connell
notes: "The night's TV wins went to HBO, Showtime, PBS and History." The actual content of the show was quite eventful and entertaining, we think -- from Bill Clinton's surprise appearance to Jody Foster' speech in which she seemed to come out as gay, …
New York Times
When it comes to new TV technology, "there’s all kinds of experimentation going on," but little that's useful on view at the Consumer Electronics Show, at least according to David Pogue. He pokes fun at the ways the TV industry is still "trying to get us to buy new TV sets," such as the push to buy 4K TV: "There’s not a single cable TV show broadcast in 4K, and not a single movie available on disc in 4K," he writes. "So what you may watch mostly on your 4K TV is the reflection of your own 'I’ve been scammed' …
New York Post
Hearst, one of the few big publishers to debut a new mag last year, is looking to launch more by the end of 2013 -- preferably joint ventures, like the successful Food Network Magazine and HGTV Magazine, both created by partnering with the Scripps Network, says David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines.
Market Watch
Starting this month, The Chicago Sun-Times will report on every homicide in the city on its website through a partnership with the HomicideWatch.org digital reporting platform, which uses "original reportage, primary source documents and social networking," writes David Wilkerson. The goal is to ensure that "every victim's story is told with a depth of focus," according to a company statement.
Variety
Should viewers who watch TV only on smartphones or tablets be counted as TV households in Nielsen ratings? "That's a question at the heart of a complicated decision Nielsen hopes to make by the end of the first quarter regarding a new definition for what constitutes a TV household," writes Andrew Wallenstein. "Nielsen is said to favor an approach staggered in stages, say sources, the first of which would be ready for the 2013-14 TV season incorporating broadband-connected TV sets -- but not include measurement of video consumption on wireless devices."
Advertising Age
The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, so here's a timely check-in for ad sales: Advertisers are paying "between $1.65 million and $1.8 million for a 30-second spot in this year's Oscars broadcast, according to media buyers and others familiar with the tone of negotiations, up slightly from the $1.6 million to $1.7 million" paid out to ABC last year, writes Brian Steinberg. And sales are going briskly: "We haven't been this well sold, this early, in over a decade," Debbie Richman, senior VP-prime-time ad sales at ABC, told Steinberg. The advertisers and ABC may be optimistic about the …
Mashable
NBC is promoting today's premiere of "1600 Penn" with a social media cupcakes contest whose reward is a year's supply of cupcakes from cult bakery Sprinkles. To enter, contestants can post a photo of cupcakes either virtual or real (picked up for free from participating bakeries in California, New York City, Chicago, Dallas and a few other locales) on Twitter or Instagram.
Variety
With Netflix appearing for the first time at the Television Critics Association press tour with a slate of its own shows, "the netcaster that has up-ended the rules of the TV biz aims to take its place alongside traditional networks as a purveyor of original programming," though the company "is still proud of Netflix's status as a disrupter of the status quo," writes AJ Marchal. To that end, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos explained why the company will not publish ratings, and how it "will measure a show's success on multiple metrics, but one of them will not be timeslot viewing."
New York Post
In a memo to employees, Time Inc. CEO Laura Lang eliminated pay raises for 2013, "but avoided any direct talk of layoffs," writes Keith Kelly. Still, his sources say to expect cuts of between 500 to 700 jobs, probably in early February -- later than previously assumed, to be "closer to the date when Time Warner is set to announce fourth-quarter earnings."