The AOP has published its latest Content & Trends Census highlighting what its publishing members see as the most important issues facing the industry. The survey highlights mobile and tablet computing as the biggest opportunities and the BBC and the economy as the biggest threats. Read More
Media blog Beehive is reporting ComScore figures on further falls in web traffic at The Times with readership down by another 120,000 in the last month.
It says unique users fell again in its second month behind a paywall dropping 7.6% in August to 1.459 million from July’s 1.579 million. Read More
Jason Schwartzman demonstrates The New Yorker iPad app in a spot directed by Roman Coppola.
Great infographic from the Blogherald that seeks to answer the question just “How big is the blogosphere”. Well you know the answer is huge, and the number of individual blogs out there is impossible to hazard.
It says that BlogPulse currently tracks almost 150 million websites that are classed as blogs. I love the way they have done the big blogs as planets with The Huffington Post, Mashable, Gawker and Techcrunch. Read More
So Yahoo! is almost worthless? One idea already suggested today is a merger with AOL. But there could be another option – taking the business private.
For the record, Yahoo! is not a bad company, in fact it is very good, comfortably generating billions of dollars in revenue. However it is not as good as Google in harnessing search and making money from it.
Disappointingly few new entries on this week’s viral chart, as curated by Unruly Media, although nice to see Mother’s stunning IKEA television ad has been doing the rounds (unless, of course, you’re an ailurophobe, in which case you might want to skip number seven).
1. Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l’Autodrome, France
Moving up into first place it’s Ken Block, defying any convention about how long is too long a viral with this 10-minute clip. Read More
How times change. Yahoo! is apparently worth next to nothing according to ThinkEquity analyst Aaron Kessler.
He has repeated his rating on Yahoo! and said that the value the company’s core operations is close to zero. Read More
Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, has hit back at comments made earlier this week that accused her and other blogs and aggregators of being “parasites living off journalism produced by others”.
Huffington was responding to the comments of Leonard Downie Jr, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, who used the James Cameron Memorial Lecture at London’s City University to attack online news aggregators. Read More
I wrote last week that I don’t have a problem with The Times paywall just its implementation. One of its biggest failing appeared to be shutting its once popular blogs behind the paywall.
I’ve suspected it is doing them no good and a couple of news tidbits have I have seen over the last day or so add weight to this idea. One of those morsels came last night from a Times member of staff speaking at an event. Read More
So for those of you eagerly awaiting Twitter’s free analytics service, good news – it should be here by the end of the year, and some details have been revealed.
Details have been made public by Twitter’s business development executive Ross Hoffman at a sports marketing summit, so he was focusing on how sports teams, players and leagues will have access to the dashboard, which is going to offer real-time analytics. Read More
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