by Wayne Friedman
Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System is making some big cutbacks with its staff. About 10% of its worldwide workforce -- around 1,475 positions out … Read the whole story
by Joe Mandese
Days after announcing it will use Rentrak as its "local TV currency," Publicis' Zenith Media unit now says it is only a test that … Read the whole story
by Steve McClellan
Barker joins from the Ogilvy Group, where for the past six years she has been Chief Talent Officer, responsible for talent strategy for their … Read the whole story
by Wayne Friedman
Live TV sports content continues to sharply climb in price as ESPN and Turner Sports renew their respective NBA contracts for nine years. Reports … Read the whole story
by Erik Sass
ESPN Audio has signed a nine-year agreement with the National Basketball Association, set to run from 2016 to 2025, giving the sports network exclusive … Read the whole story
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by Erik Sass
Two of Canada's largest newspaper publishers are merging, with the announcement that Quebecor Media has sold Sun Media to rival newspaper publisher Postmedia for … Read the whole story
COMMENTARY
by Tom Goodwin, Op-Ed Contributor
The problem for news sources is it's impossible for quality content to keep up with the thrusting challenge of cheap fast food, it's expensive, … Read the whole story
by Laurie Sullivan
Online display advertising in the United States will grow from $19.8 billion in 2014 to $37.6 billion in 2019 at a compound annual growth … Read the whole story
COMMENTARY
by Katie Meier
The Las Vegas experiment-cum-startup-utopia known as the Downtown Project got more than its share of press last week. It went kaput, depending on whom … Read the whole story
by Mark Walsh
Facebook on Monday formally closed its acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp, but the final price rose $3 billion to about $22 billion because … Read the whole story
by Gavin O'Malley
Yahoo is reportedly close to investing around $20 million in Snapchat at a valuation of $10 billion. A Snapchat investment -- which has yet … Read the whole story
by Wendy Davis
The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to weigh in on a legal fight between data aggregator Spokeo and a consumer who … Read the whole story
by Laurie Sullivan
Marketers managing social and search campaigns understand that the same buying patterns do not occur in both media during the same time. Budgets for … Read the whole story
by Laurie Sullivan
Among the reasons why consumers do not use Twitter, 52% said they view it as a waste of time; 36% don't see the point; … Read the whole story