Latest and Breaking Media News and Top Stories - July 3
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette : One year after launch, Guardian Australia is on track to turn a profit (after it has repaid backer Graeme Wood) — Just over a year after the launch of The Guardian claims its Australi...
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- PornHub Selects Winner of Creative Director Challenge -UPDATE: Layoffs at Razorfish North America - Teddy Roosevelt Likeness Aims to Remain in Brazil, Rally US Soccer Fans - R/GA Sells (Its Building) Out - Infiniti Courts Seven ...
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A new study from GfK MRI Starch Advertising Research “found that ads in tablet versions of magazines have the same average level of reader recall as print magazine ads,” reports The Wall Street Journal . The research firm stu...
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Never underestimate the power of chutzpah . Oddly enough, it took a German ad man to prove that point. One of the last stories from Cannes-Lions making its way into the headlines concerns the bold actions of Michael Trautmann , CEO of Ge...
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In a quick bit of staffing news before the long weekend, Deputy Director/Head of Account Management Justin Manfredi left his position at TBWA’s Digital Arts Network this week. Manfredi, who worked in accounts at JWT, Deutsch New Yo...
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Media Venture Partners announce that Simmons-SLC, LLC has closed (7/3) on its sale to Broadway Media, LLC. The transaction encompassed
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On the eve of the Fourth of July holiday weekend, longtime Wenner Media executive John Gruber has resigned, according to sources familiar with the situation. Gruber over the years served in several key roles, including controller and chi...
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comScore has released data from comScore MobiLens and Mobile Metrix, reporting key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry for May 2014
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The TV series which debuted 6/3 was designed to make a family famous is off the air because viewers weren't willing to play along. So, the CW network has canceled "Famous in 12," well shy of its planned three-month run.
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In what would have been quite the change of scenery for a major ratings draw, FOX recently threatened to leave Nielsen to go to exclusively with Rentrak for its measurement needs. In what resembled a real-life episode of 24 , this imbr...
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Ian Burrell / The Independent : Exclusive: BBC's Panorama team loses confidential information relating to a secret British Army unit — A researcher allegedly downloaded material from an online dropbox service on to a U...
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Boosted by its over-achieving U.S. soccer team, ESPN's World Cup ratings are now up 44% in viewership versus the previous 2010 event. Through 56 telecasts on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC, the games have also achieved over double-digit demographi...
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“Good Morning America” wins for both the week of June 23 and the second quarter of 2014. The ABC morning show delivered its largest quarterly advantage over NBC’s “Today” in 22 years in total viewers and 21 ...
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With summer movie season approaching, BSSP created a cinematic preview spot for Greyhound featuring the fictional heavy metal band MüttonGüt. The 60-second spot sees the tour manager for MüttonGüt (who bear more than a passing resemblanc...
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“At the very least, the worst movies ever made offer some comfort: Even in absolute disaster, there’s something to be learned about why we make entertainment, and how it can go wrong. Occasionally, the failure even succeeds, albeit...
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Yahoo is shutting down or repurposing a range of products from women's lifestyle site Shine to email management service Xobni. Shine, which launched in 2008, is a casualty of Yahoo's recent rollout of glossy digital magazines covering to...
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Michael Bay’s fourth Transformers installment racked up $134.5 million in its first five days in China, which is higher than the $121 million it had earned in North American theaters by July 1. – See more at:
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DUBLIN, July 3 (Reuters) - Two of American country singer Garth Brooks five sold-out comeback concerts at Dublin's Croke Park stadium this month were cancelled on Thursday after objections were raised by local residents.
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1. YouTube, apps and Minecraft: Digital kids and the future of children’s media (Stuart Dredge / The Guardian) 2. Readers recall tablet magazine ads at same rate as print ads (Nathalie Tadena / Wall Street Journal) 3. Univision streaming...
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1. Edtech startups protest FCC proposal for ‘two-tiered internet’ (Charley Locke / EdSurge) 2. Chasing the elusive ‘quality’ in online education (Anya Kamenetz / NPR) 3. A MOOC by any other name (John M. Eger / Huffington Pos...
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“We actually make more money per viewer streaming than we do on television. If you stream our programming online, you’re seeing a full complement of advertising—you can’t bypass it.”
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian : Despite promises, Rebekah Brooks still hasn't explained why News of the World was shuttered in 2011 — So, Rebekah Brooks, what was the reason for the News of the World's closure? &mdas...
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Tropical Storm Arthur has strengthened into a category one Hurricane churning up the east coast set to hit North Carolina’s Outer Banks hardest. TV news crews have already dispersed crews to cover the extreme w...
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The BBC and The Guardian say that they have received notice of articles that will no longer show up in European online searches, including one about the former Merrill Lynch chief.
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Reuters : New swathe of online services disrupted in China; activists see HK protest link — (Reuters) - Access to online services such as messaging app Line and photo-sharing site Flickr was disrupted in China this wee...
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Chris Nott John Huggins Full-service digital marketing, branding and advertising agency On Ideas have grown their team with the addition of four new directors: Director of Connections Planning and Optimization Bryan Cherok, Associate Cre...
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CBC | The Toronto Star | Huff Post Canada A fence went up around the Globe and Mail building in Toronto on Wednesday before a strike vote, CBC reports. And now that fence has a Twitter account . You said … Read more
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Quick! Can you find Fox News's coverage of the latest job figures ? Still can't find them? OK, we'll help you out. What if we zoom in? OK, OK, we'll show you! The link is that little one right in the corner there. For some reason, Fox Ne...
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The recent Nielsen Catalina study that quantified Radio’s impact on sales is a long overdue much needed piece of research that’s hopefully the first of many such studies yet to come. But it is important when discussing it with savvy mark...
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Today we learned that veteran creative Kevin Thomson has left his position at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia for a job as Creative Director at BBDO San Francisco. BBDO’s newest CD has more than a decade of industry work ...
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How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! At the Aspen Ideas F...
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Mark Sweney / Guardian : The Guardian appoints Alberto Nardelli as data editor — Tweetminster co-founder joins publisher to boost political data storytelling and election coverage — Alberto Nardelli h...
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Pew Research Center Maintaining Internet openness in the face of both commercialization and government crackdowns will be crucial over the next 10 years, according to a Pew Internet Project report that canvassed 1,400 experts about the W...
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Bianca Consunji is a journalist and video producer at Mashable. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she graduated from the Columbia Journalism School and was a Jack R. Howard fellow for international journalism. She was associate editor...
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While music services are certainly hot properties right now, the bigger question is why Google felt it necessary to purchase another music property when it already has several.
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Journalists usually try to cover current events, keep excess quotes to a minimum and remove their notes from the final draft. On Wednesday, journalists at NPR threw out these rules. The result? An interactive feature born from a docume...
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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web : Weibo takes a page out of Twitter's book with the beta launch of its TV ratings service — Weibo, the Chinese microblogging service commonly known as 'China's Twitter,' has followed in its ...
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-JWT introduces Banana Boat Triple Defense Sunscreen for Men with new campaign (video above). link -Bug causes some Facebook advertisers to receive others’ receipts. link -A behind-the-scenes look at JWT’s Nike cricket campai...
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Page Six reports several former employees of “America’s Talking” — MSNBC’s predecessor launched by Roger Ailes featuring Chris Matthews , Steve Doocy and others — recently gathered to mark the 20th ann...
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CEO of UPower Technologies Jacob DeWitte told New Scientist that radical improvements to nuclear power will be led by entrepreneurs. “Newer companies can help stimulate innovation in a traditional start-up sense,” he says. &#...
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Forty-two percent of marketers currently use mobile marketing but that number is growing along with a greater need for in-house talent. According to a survey by Ascend2 , the greatest obstacle to successful mobile marketing is a lack of ...
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Stuart Dredge / Guardian : YouTube, apps and Minecraft: digital kids and the future of childrens media — SuperAwesome boss Dylan Collins challenges entertainment companies and investors to adapt to change —...
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Indianapolis, IN – Entercom Indianapolis WZPL, WNTR and WXNT radio stations are accepting applications for openings in our media sales department. If you’re an experienced, self-starter; motivated, creative and goal driven professi...
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Here’s a quick look at the media news of the day so far. What are we missing? Let us know . – MediaWire Morning: Editor fired for Reddit shenanigans | BuzzFeed editors don’t shout | USPS cuts could affect weekly … Read more
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This incredibly useful and constantly updated infographic from Tent Social details important information you’ll inevitably need for your marketing efforts in 2014. Use it as a handy reference guide to required image and video dimen...
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News UK, Mail Newspapers, Telegraph Media Group, Guardian Media Group and ESI Media have joined forces to launch an automated system to simplify how agencies buy advertising space.
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No journalism course is all-encompassing and there will always be new skills to learn, so here are some skills to consider picking up in your free time
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No journalism course is all-encompassing and there will always be new skills to learn, so here are some skills to consider picking up in your free time
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Univision and ESPN continue to set World Cup records – both on linear and streaming – and are surely benefiting from increased interest in the games and from tremendous social media activity. As rights holders, though, Univis...
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Today’s MediaWireWorld roundup of journalism news from outside the U.S. Send tips to Kristen Hare: khare@poynter.org 1. On an empire: The Guardian is now on part six of Charlotte Higgins’ series looking at the BBC and “how it...
