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user generated content
Defying Google: Adify CEO, Russ Fradin (Part 2)
In this segment, Russ talks about the various players in the online ad network space. He classifies Google AdSense as a Direct Response Ad Network, while Yahoo is a bit more of a brand advertising play. SM: From your point of view, having been in the online advertising / ad network business since the beginning
NYT: Print to Digital
The New York Times Company is a leading media company that publishes popular newspapers The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and 15 other daily newspapers. The Company also owns nine network-affiliated television stations and two New York radio stations. NYT owns approximately 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com.
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
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
Making User Generated Content Sustainable
Steve Rubel has an excellent post called Web 2.0’s impact on Travel and Tourism, where he makes the case that users who are creating quality and popular content ought to be compensated, to keep the content coming. See below: :: Maryclaire730 has put together a terrific itinerary on the Yahoo Trip Planner of my home
Media Troubles
I wrote Media Shuffles earlier this week. Here’s TechCrunch reporting on CNet’s troubles, because of the rise of Blogs. Clearly, blogs have disrupted a lot of things in the old media world. Google’s newly acquired power in video sharing will, likely, also prove problematic for the incumbants. I am hearing from myriad sources that the
Saying NO to $1.6 Billion
Saying NO to $1.6 Billion has its consequences. YouTube is being courted heavily. Tons of murmers in the blogosphere and even on WSJ, NYT, etc.. The question that YouTube needs to ask itself is whether it can possibly go at it alone? 50 Million users sharing and watching video – that is the basic business
User Generated Reviews
Check out Yelp Mobile. In the growing trend of User Generated content, the Review market is one that many are eyeing. Yahoo has had movie reviews for a long time. Google is starting to pull in Yelp type reviews into their Google Local site. Now, Palm has done a deal with Yelp to put them
