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Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 13)
We’re talking about large media companies and their assets: readership / traffic, brand, channels, advertiser relationships, sales forces, and inventory. Why should old media just concede the battle to Google and Yahoo, with so many great assets? SM: Not only do they have great sales forces and good relationships with advertisers, but they also have
Time Warner’s Ad Network Move
In a previous post, I discussed Time Warner’s digital media strategy. In this one, I will analyze their move into Ad Networks, via an investment in Adify, a small company providing technology infrastructure services for building and running ad networks. [If you are new to the field on online advertising, please read my interview with
Monetizing Blogs via Ad Networks
We have spent a few weeks discussing online advertising and ad networks with the CEO of Adify. In this post, let’s take a look at how blogs would be able to leverage quality ad networks. Today, the notion of ‘A-List’ bloggers depends on 2 things: (a) Traffic (b) Content. Often, you find blogs with high
Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 10)
SM: Would you give us some examples of your larger and smaller customers? RF: We work with an education related network called HotChalk, we work with a network of do-it-yourself home improvement types called HouseBlogs, we work with an entrepreneur called Robert Kadar who is starting a network called GoodHealthAdvertising, he is an expert and
WSJ, Business Week: Take Note
Adify defies Google Adsense, submitting a model for the rest of the “old” media industry to adopt and leverage, liberating them from the corner they have been pushed in by the onslaught of user generated media. Washington Post has already adopted the service. Wall Street Journal and Business Week ought to follow suit, and given
In Step With the Times?
Time Warner Inc. is a leading Media and Entertainment Company engaged in providing Publishing, Broadcasting and Interactive Services. The business of the Company is broadly classified into five segments. The key segments include the Cable business that primarily comprises of interests in cable systems, providing video, high-speed data and voice services; the Filmed Entertainment business,
