Will Gannett Pull It Off?

I wrote several pieces on the newspaper industry: Newspapers, Roll Up, Newspapers, Wake Up, and the Pro-Am Debate. Gannett (GCI) publishes 90 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications. Gannett’s popular newspaper USA TODAY with a

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Yahoo can kill Google AdSense for Content

I got an email from one of my readers, Todd, in response to the Viacom post: “Curious on your latest post – why do you lambast Google for ‘paying hopelessly little to publishers who use AdSense’, when it’s pretty clear from their financials that they pay out nearly 80% of ad revenue to adsense publishers?

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Newspapers Losing Verticals to Online

Big chunks of the revenues of newspapers traditionally came from the verticals (Jobs, Classifieds, Personals, Real Estate, Cars, Travel, Events, Reviews). With the popularity of the online services ascending, and with huge investments made in each of those categories, the newspaper industry has been suffering, as ad dollars systematically flow out of print, and onto

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Viacom Confronts YouTube

Viacom (VIA) sues Google (GOOG) over YouTube. Read the WSJ clip: :: After months of negotiations that failed to produce any settlement, media giant Viacom sued Google and its recently purchased YouTube unit, alleging that the immensely popular video-sharing Internet site engages in “massive intentional copyright infringement.” The suit, filed in a New York federal

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Web 3.0 & Yahoo! Personal Finance

Yahoo! launched its Personal Finance site on January 19, 2006. In this piece, we will analyze the site based on the Web 3.0 framework.

Personal Finance & Web 3.0: Overview

Personal Finance is one of the top segments that draws online advertising dollars, and in this series, we will evaluate the category against the Web 3.0 framework. MsMoney estimates that in the first quarter of 2006 financial websites experienced a 500% jump in traffic. Personal finance websites are gaining momentum with the penetration of broadband,

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Online Ad Spend Beneficiaries

Last week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported that online ad sales rose 32% to a record $4.8 billion in the last quarter. That would put the estimated run rate at about $20-25 Billion for the year 2007. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Internet advertising revenues for 2006 are estimated at $16.8 billion,

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Eisner’s Web Studio

Michael Eisner has put his muscle behind a web studio, Vuguru. I have already said a few times, that user generated content will find it difficult to sustain itself as the central content on the web, unless business models shape up to monetize that content. Looks like, Eisner is placing a bet on the fact

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