By Richard Waters Published: July 12 2010 18:51 | Last updated: July 12 2010 18:51 In an office in Santa Monica, wedged between downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean, the future of the media industry is being drawn up. Demand Media is a company created specifically for the Google Age. It tracks the queries entered [...]

by Erik Sass, July 9th 2010, 4:49 PM Although Facebook’s growth appears to be slowing in the United States (the site added a mere 320,800 new users in June, down from 7.8 million new users in May), the U.S. is only half the story. Or actually, significantly less than half the story. Indeed, one of the most [...]

“The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good.

The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian, Monday 5 July 2010 If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years [...]

Benedict Evans, Enders Analysis Apr 18, 2010 12:00 AM ET The iPad is a beautiful device that offers new ways to consume and interact with content. Newspapers are piling in with paid services that some – like Rupert Murdoch - hope will offset the decline of their print businesses. But, while there is real money to be made here, it [...]

By ANDREW RICE Published: May 10, 2010 Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy, others were trading at penny-stock [...]

Kantar Media’s Futureproof study of 2,400 adults reveals consumers are more willing to pay one-off charges for digital content than micropayments Rupert Murdoch has put an end to the culture of free by closing News International’s online content behind a paywall, believed to go live within days. The media mogul’s attempt to change consumers’ “online [...]

Lots of papers on a platform would mean lots more traffic – and income. But can we break the dish-the-opposition habit? Peter Preston The Observer, Sunday 27 June 2010 Those of us following the yellow brick road through Mr Murdoch’s imminent Times paywall know exactly what’s coming next. First we signed up for a free month’s [...]

Dan Frommer Sillicon Alley Insider Media industry ad revenue declined 12% year-over-year to $125.3 billion in 2009, according to a report issued by Kantar Media, the WPP-owned research firm formerly known as TNS. The only major growth area: Online ad spending. Internet ads — display only — increased 7% in 2009, according to the report. [...]

Posted 8 Feb 2010 by Tony O’Driscoll So, how does an unknown anthropology professor from Kansas make a home movie on a “cheap computer” in his basement that beats out all the $3.6 million Super Bowl ads and transforms him into a Web 2.0 rock star? This story begins and ends with the free and open [...]

Feb 4 2010, 10:40 am by Derek Thompson Facebook’s page view explosion in the last months of 2009 — plus new evidence that it is becoming the major driver of news — has some analysts wondering whether the site is taking over Google News and personalized Google Reader accounts as America’s leading information hub. To me the issue [...]

By Jonathan Stray /  Jan. 26  /  10 a.m. It’s entirely possible that The New York Times will net a profit from their newly announced paywall, set to debut in a year’s time. But it’s by no means guaranteed. Even (momentarily) setting aside the journalistic or civic-minded concerns about shutting some readers out of the news, the whole idea makes [...]

Chris Tryhorn - The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2010 How can you make the internet pay? It’s the number one question being asked by all media groups, with Rupert Murdoch poised to put his papers behind a paywall and the New York Times announcing it will do the same in 2011. Fresh from the sale of his [...]

By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And ETHAN SMITH With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple’s influence and revenue as a content middleman. In developing the device, Apple focused on [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Taking a step that has tempted and terrified much of the newspaper industry, The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it would charge some frequent readers for access to its Web site — news that drew ample reaction from media analysts and consumers, ranging from enthusiastic to withering…more

By JENNA WORTHAM Published: January 3, 2010 Given the craze around the iPhone, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre and Nexus One, it might seem that nearly everyone has a smartphone. But most consumers use simpler, much cheaper phones. According to data from the Nielsen Company, roughly 82 percent of cellphones in use are limited-function phones, the kind that typically sell [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TIM ARANGO Over more than a decade, consumers became accustomed to the sweet, steady flow of free news, pictures, videos and music on the Internet. Paying was for suckers and old fogeys. Content, like wild horses, wanted to be free. Now, however, there are growing signs that this free ride is drawing to [...]

There are a lot of new technologies which already affect news consumption and future business models. As a nerd, I’m excited by the new tech, particularly mobile, including new display systems and pervasive connectivity. However, the tech is secondary, not nearly as important as repairing some current issues with trust and curation.As a news media guy, [...]

Patrick Smith – @psmith - Sep 21, 2009 4:13 AM ET While some continue to talk about charging for online news content, others are busy doing it. The latest member of the paid content club is weekly public affairs magazine The Spectator, which on Thursday removed all current and archive magazine content from its website and launched a campaign to get [...]

By E&P Staff Published: July 15, 2009 5:02 PM ET NEW YORK Two newspapers in upstate New York have eliminated one day each from their daily production schedules. On July 6, the Tonawanda News eliminated its Monday edition, moving to a Tuesday-Saturday schedule. The next day, The Journal-Register, of Medina, dropped its Tuesday edition, and [...]

Posted by Simon Day on June 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM Online classified ad site Craigslist is forecast to earn more than US$100 million in revenue for 2009, according to a new Classified Intelligence report, published by AIM Group, a media and Web consultant firm in Orlando, Fla, The New York Times reported Tuesday. This revenue [...]

By STEVEN JOHNSON Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were [...]

By DAVID CARR Published: May 17, 2009 Write about the media long enough and eventually you type your way to your own doorstep. Lately, when I finish an interview, most subjects have a question of their own. “What’s going to happen to The New York Times?” they ask, some plaintively, others pruriently. In the last [...]

In a year when newspaper cutbacks have made their own headlines, strong evidence of the changing nature of media use in America may be found in a single statistic: Internet users report a large increase in time reading online newspapers, according to the eighth annual Surveying the Digital Future projected conducted by USC Annenberg’s Center [...]

By MIGUEL HELFT Published: April 7, 2009 SAN DIEGO — It had the makings of a high-tension face-off: Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, spoke Tuesday at a convention of newspaper executives at a time when a growing chorus in the struggling industry is accusing Google of succeeding, in part, at their expense. ..more

By Earl J. Wilkinson – INMA The death of the newspaper is one of the great exaggerations of today’s economic downturn. It is a myth being perpetuated by people, companies, and the trade press that serve them that are in seeming cardiac arrest — many of whom have amassed debt beyond their means, possess business [...]

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?

(SeyboldOnline) LOS ANGELES, CA (Press Release) Mar 09, 2009 the Rubicon Project, an advertising technology company focused on global ad network optimization, reveals specific insights into the huge revenue opportunity for Premium News publishers online with ad networks. This knowledge comes from optimizing more than 150 billion impressions, 18 billion of which have been for [...]

(FT.com) Whatever colour you paint a donkey, the eeyoring is unmistakable. AOL’s new chief executive, Tim Armstrong should consider that as he saddles up at the internet company. The management he replaces was not the first to be thrown by a business many believe belongs in the knacker’s yard …more

(New York Times) I don’t mean to turn this column into All E-Books, All the Time. But Amazon pulled a nice one-two P.R. punch. Two weeks ago, it released its Kindle 2 electronic book reader, and announced that its catalog of electronic books had hit 240,000 titles. You can download them wirelessly to the Kindle, [...]

(The Buzzmachine) The New York Times is about to announce that it is starting a hyperlocal product called The Local working with our students at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. PaidContent has the story early. So I’ll tell you about the school’s and my involvement and plans. Read more…

An iTunes moment? THINGS are suddenly hotting up in the rather obscure field of electronic books and their associated reading devices, the best known of which is Amazon’s Kindle. A new, sleeker version of the Kindle was unveiled on February 9th. Just days earlier, Google said it was making 1.5m free e-books available in a [...]

New York Times considers charging for its website Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) – New York Times Co. may charge for access to its flagship newspaper’s Web site less than two years after terminating an earlier online-subscription service ..more

The Future of Newspapers It has been a hellish week for the newspaper industry. Tribune, owner of the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy, while The New York Times Company hocked its new Renzo Piano-designed skyscraper. Worse still was the… more

Newspapers Jettisoning Top Talent to Cut Costs In March 2007, Circuit City came up with a plan to confront softening sales and competition from online and offline retailers: fire the most talented, experienced employees… more

Transforming American Newspapers (Part 2) If the major reason for the American daily newspaper industry’s demise were its stories contained too many dangling participles, then the industry could more easily comprehend its situation than instead hearing that the reason was it had violated the Principle of Supply & Demand… more

Transforming American Newspapers (Part 1) Ignorance isn’t bliss to the dying. Witness the pathos of American daily newspaper companies. Most have finally begun to realize that the deterioration of their businesses isn’t cyclical but grave. Yet few, if any, understand why. Almost all grasp for the reasons…more

A Medical Publisher’s Unusual Prescription: Online Ads By some measures, the medical publishing world has met the advent of the Internet with a shrug, sticking to its time-honored revenue model of charging high subscription fees for specialized journals that often attract few, if any, advertisements…more

Social Networks advertising dilemma There was something a little dispiriting about Google’sannouncement last week of its plans to bring video advertising to YouTube. This was only partly a result of the deadening sensation instilled by a sense of creeping commercialisation… more

Microsoft Corp.’s $6 billion deal to buy an online-ad specialist called aQuantive Inc. puts into high gear a race between Madison Avenue and a new guard of technology businesses that are trying to dominate the unbridled market in brokering Internet advertisements …more

LONDON: Tongue-twister newspaper titles like De Twentsche Courant Tubantia may not have the international name recognition of The Wall Street Journal. But as Rupert Murdoch trains his sights on Dow Jones, owner of the Journal, another veteran of the British newspaper wars is betting on the future of lower-profile publications… more