Sports, politics, this story has it all in a very funny look at last week:
Admit It, Chicago: that Was a Great Sting
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Artie: He’s catching hell from Glenn Beck and other right-wing nuts. But with them, he’s [...]
Sports, politics, this story has it all in a very funny look at last week:
Admit It, Chicago: that Was a Great Sting
By Frank Clines & Art Kumbalek
Artie: He’s catching hell from Glenn Beck and other right-wing nuts. But with them, he’s [...]
“There’s a Turn, But Will There Be a U-Turn?” which is a bottoms-up analysis of quarterly U.S. advertising trends using publicly reported, quarterly financial results.
Highlights of the report include:
* Q2 U.S. advertising growth was -14.0%, 190 bps better than the decline in 1Q and the first sequential acceleration [...]
Reilly: Camp Sundown shines with the Yankees in the Bronx
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This column appears in the Aug. 24 issue of ESPN The Magazine.
Courtesy New York YankeesBurnett stayed into the early-morning hours to pitch Wiffle balls to campers.The team facing Yankees ace A.J. Burnett [...]
Thanks once again to Peter Krasilovsky for some excellent analysis on the local space:
ReachLocal Grossed $147 Million in 2008; Projects ‘09 Growth
August 14, 2009
One of the big q’s in local has been how well ReachLocal is doing. The SMB online advertising consultant was reportedly [...]
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This article in New York Magazine about President Obama’s media strategy is a must read for any brand or [...]
“The problem with most analysis on Twitter,” says Rohit Bhargava in a post at the Influential Marketing Blog, “is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects.” He found some useful information, however, in a comprehensive eport on Twitter usage recently released [...]
Backfence.com founder and fellow alum Mark Potts launches new service for local sites. Best of luck, Mark.
Here’s more on the story from Business Week:
Taming the Web for Local Advertisers
GrowthSpur has a strategy to help business connect with fragmented audiences
The conventional wisdom is that alternative weeklies have their best days behind them. But that’s clearly not the position of Village Voice Media, which owns 15 titles reaching about ¼ of the 7.6 million alt weekly readers in the U.S.
President and COO Scott Tobias notes that VVM [...]
By Larry Atkins
Editor’s note: Larry’s thoughts on Walter Cronkite provide us an opportunity to talk about what journalism is, and might be, in the Internet era. I’ll follow Larry’s piece with a comment of my own, and I invite you to do the [...]
Thanks to Steve Rubel for turning me onto Gizmodo’s homage to all things 1979.
Speak and Spell? 8-track? Walkman’s the size of laptops? Sweet.
Posted via email from Local Andy
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Is a lot of Social Media Monitoring “Snake Oil”? Richard Stacy wonders if he missed something. Do today’s tricked-out social media monitoring tools (”impressive black boxes that reel out reams of charts and data and figures and tracking and all sorts of other wizardry”) offer [...]
Report: Local Numbers Outperform 800 by 2X
By Greg Sterling
Dennis Fromholzers CRM Associates recently issued a report that said the following about use of local telephone numbers vs. 800/toll-free numbers in print or online advertising:
In general, ads with local phone numbers receive more than twice as [...]
Yahoo!’s New Homepage and ‘Mojo’
July 21, 2009 by Greg Sterling
Will Yahoo!’s new homepage be a hit and help the company “get its mojo back”? I’ve written about the new homepage and some interesting related search initiatives on SEL. I like what [...]
Web [...]
In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken U.S. education system, Gates has managed to fulfill a dream of taking some classic physics lectures and making [...]
New CEO at HopStop Pushes for Rapid Growth
HopStop, which provides public transit routing and schedules, plus walking directions, has brought in new leadership and expects to pursue rapid growth to 200 cities. It is currently in seven markets (or eight, if you count Long Island [...]
Cougars, Yuppies, And Sugar Daddies, Oh My! by Jason Kincaid on July 13, 2009 on TechCrunch
Ever wanted to see where your city’s highest concentration of frisky, mature [...]
Sears, Allstate join free employment site
(Crain’s) — From Sears Holdings Corp. to Allstate Corp., local companies have joined a consortium offering a free online job
and employee-matching service.
The nine-firm consortium, called United We Work, aims to jumpstart hiring amid the recession by allowing member companies
access to a pool of job candidates, [...]
“I was reading a story on Yahoo! about the “Codex Sinaiticus,” the oldest version of the Christian Bible and how that’s being brought online. At the top of the [...]
New Hyperlocal Network Created via Community Paper Sites
via Peter Krasilovsky and the Local Media Blog
Kaesu, a provider of online services to free community papers, has received “more than $1 million” to jumpstart its efforts. The strategic investment, from Media Space Solutions, is geared [...] By Robert Niles for OJR
Every major breaking news events offers its lessons to the news organizations that covered it. And today’s death of singer Michael Jackson should lead newsrooms to reexamine how they handle breaking news [...]
HotJobs’ Launches ‘Pay-Per-Candidate;’ Broad Implications
From The Local Onliner
In an action that could have broad implications for the classifieds industry, Yahoo! HotJobs has added a “Pay Per Candidate” model that guarantees that recruiters aren’t paying for untouched “ghost” listings. Pay Per [...]
The IAB Thursday announced the inaugural meeting of a new advisory group to recommend changes to standard interactive ad
formats. For the first time, agency creative executives will participate in the IAB’s annual review of ad standards.
The Re-Imagining Interactive Advertising Task Force includes more than 20 publishers and agencies including CBS [...]
Though recent studies show that Twitter has been growing exponentially, more than 60% of US Twitter users fail to return the
following month, reports the Business Insider (via MarketingVOX). Twitter’s growth has come, in part, as a result of celebrity
exposure, which fueled a record number of people to sign up in [...]
From Peter Krasilovsky’s Local Onliner:
San Diego News Network seemed like a model for local news development but now its future is less clear. Launched last week after nearly a year of development, the network was built to provide compelling local content to the area’s broadcasters, cable news networks [...]
News companies’ sense of entitlement regarding the news that they report is preventing them from developing the new business practices that they need to profit in an increasingly competitive information market.Witness the temper tantrums that major news bosses Rupert Murdoch and Dean Singleton have thrown during the past seven days [...]
WISN-TV wants to help people get through this tough job market.
Between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Thursday, WISN-TV is holding a Project Economy Job Phone Bank.
The station has recruited 20 experts who will answer your questions on how to find and keep a job in this economy.
They’ll cover topics [...]
With Twitter becoming the way information spreads fastest on the Web, who’s benefiting from traffic driven by the micro-blogging service? Mostly social networking, search, email and entertainment sites, according to a new analysis by Hitwise.The Web measurement firm found that Twitter sent nearly one in five visits to social [...]
[Editor’s note: The past week roiled the journalism business, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went to online-only, the former Rocky Mountain News staff tried to revive the paper as an independent website and Clay Skirky painted a revolutionary picture for what is happening [...]
San Diego being sold off for the sum of its parts. Tucson is next.
Copley says it is selling San Diego Union-Tribune to private firm Platinum Equity SAN DIEGO (AP) — The parent company of The San Diego Union-Tribune said Wednesday that it agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to a [...]
Do you think that the writers over at the Consumerist find CareerBuilder’s free resume review job seeker-worthy? Probably not, considering the headline: “CareerBuilder: Free Resume Review is Bot-Driven Junk.”
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The embrace of social media by the real estate and apartment communities has been strong, with many sites displaying videos of units and the community (or linking to YouTube), writing blogs, and participating on social sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Vitrue, a consulting/analytics company that measures “brand [...]
By Robert Niles
Picking up from my piece on Wednesday….The Obama campaign did not build its social network in isolation. In many communities, it built upon an existing “netroots” of progressives that had developed over the past several years. That network, in turn, developed in frustration with both the [...]This report (News Goes from Bad to Worse for Newspapers) on Seeking Alpha points out a few of the recent development in newspaper stocks. It does not mention the default status of loans to both the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Philadelphia Newspapers.
It also cites a recent Forrester Report [...]
The top 30 newspaper Web sites for September finds that politics, the financial meltdown and baseball helped boost the amount of visitors to newspaper Web sites, according to the latest data from Nielsen Online. All in the top 30 experienced double-digit increases in September monthly uniques with the exception of [...]
Geneva Overholser admits, “I realized today to my amazement that I may long have been a secret disciple of Milton Friedman.”
“The famed laissez-faire economist held that business and mission don’t go together, according to Adlai Wertman, of USC’s Marshall School of Business. ‘And I’m not sure I disagree with him,’ [...]
Acxiom Corp. released a study which reveals which consumer groups are most likely to spend during challenging economic times. The study found variations in how each consumer segment looks at the economy today and how that perception affects whether and how they will defer spending; the type of stores they [...]
By Curt Cavin on OJR
Editor’s note: Sports fans whose memories extend more than 15 years will recall that Indy Car racing once was North America’s most popular form of motor sport. But a split among rival sanctioning organizations robbed the sport of sponsors and fans, clearing the way [...]
PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield calls it “The world’s best conference on HR technology” - and you can experience part of it for FREE! Come to McCormick Place, October 15 - 16, and visit the HR Technology® Conference Expo Hall [ http://www.HRTechnologyConference.com ] for absolutely no charge. With more [...]
How newspapers abdicated the front page’s influence and how they can get it back by linking. [publishing2.com]
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More than a year ago ftm warned newspaper publishers that local television and radio were getting their Web act together and were nipping at newspaper web site revenues, and a new report out this week confirms just that. If newspapers want to get back the web revenue growth they desperately need then [...]
From Search Engine Journal
Google News can bring tons of traffic and boost your site performance. If you own news site and consider it “newsworthy”, getting included in Google news is one of the first thing you should do:
Make sure your site meets all requirements to be included:Shimon Sandler did [...]
The future of newsprint has been a hop topic of debate for the last decade. So far, the papers haven’t died as some predicted, although new owners have meant smaller papers with fewer sections. Sam Zell’s thinner Chicago Tribune, is one example. On September 11, more newspaper news was made, [...]
Tribune’s chief innovation officer, speaking at a Society for News Design event, says “Papers are everywhere–it’s not like it’s a new startup business,” and “There’s no reason we can’t create a newspaper renaissance.” “We have to focus on rethinking. Think dramatic. Think urgency. Dramatic issues require dramatic solutions.” He added: [...]
TheMash, the paper’s collaboration with Chicago Public Schools on a weekly newspaper for and largely written by Chicago teens, is scheduled to make its debut Sept. 4 with an initial distribution of 100,000 copies in the city’s 130 public high schools. Student contributors will receive training and guidance from Chicago [...]
There are plenty of people in the Washington area who’ve cursed out the Examiner for its penchant to throw papers willy-nilly on lawns and stoops. Yet Shepherd Park resident Don Squires came up with perhaps the most original protest. At an advisory neighborhood commission meeting earlier this year that addressed [...]
The Tampa Tribune is said to be considering publishing as a one-section broadsheet newspaper weekdays, with very few stories “jumping” or continued off the front page.
([blogs.tampabay.com] 8/29 via [www.poynter.org])
[...]City Paper arts editor on the state of book coverage at alternative weeklies. ([bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com] 8/27 via http://aan.org)
Good thing for Milwaukee that the Shepherd Express both reviews books and publishes extended author interviews.
Shepherd Express Authors Voices
[...]More staff cuts are coming for Washington City Paper. According to a newsroom insider, parent company Creative Loafing told City Paper staff that they would need to cut the publication’s budget by $170,000. ([dcist.com] 8/27 via http://aan.org)
[...]CNN correspondents will contribute columns to the free Metro papers in New York, Boston and Philadelphia every Friday for 12 weeks beginning Aug. 22 under a new partnership. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/newsroom/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003841539> 8/21)
[...]Verizon is pitching a “triple play” with FiOS TV to 4,200 households in the Hampton, Va., area, where Cox Communications is the incumbent cable provider. Customers signing up for FiOS before Oct. 4 will receive 1 year free use of either a high-definition DVR or an HD home media DVR, [...]
Combined local and national spot radio advertising dropped 8% in the 2nd quarter to $4.6 billion for a 7% drop in the first half of the year to $8.4 billion, according to figures released by the Radio Advertising Bureau. Even factoring in a robust 12% growth in off-air advertising to [...]
The Onion, the “fake news” satirical newspaper, is turning serious with the launch of Decider.com, a local entertainment site that includes interviews, event information and restaurant reviews. The site is initially launching with content for Chicago, with plans to support more cities over the next few months. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/26/no-joke-the-onion-launches-citysearch-competitor/> 8/26)
[...]More than half of the daily newspapers in the U.S. won’t exist in print, e-paper or Web site formats at the end of the next decade, predicts media consultant Vin Crosbie. Hyperlocal online news start-up companies “might replace many small dailies,” he says.
([www.digitaldeliverance.com] 8/21)
[...]Facing cuts, editors ‘relax the rules’ to make swift changes: Reductions in staff and newshole are two realities the modern newsroom must face. How can newspapers take a crack at new approaches so they can not just survive, but thrive when things get tight?
([www.editorandpublisher.com] 8/27)
[...]New York tabloid rivals weigh merging some business functions: The New York Post, owned by News Corp., and the New York Daily News, owned by Mortimer Zuckerman, are considering collaborating on some business functions. The discussions are centered on consolidating the papers’ printing, distribution and back-office functions such as marketing [...]
This is a blog post about annoying customer disdain at a DC area coffee shop:
Read the store manager’s response next:
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Back-to-school advertising: JCPenney, to kick off the back-to-school season, launches an integrated marketing campaign on July 18 showing teens how they can “get that look” with an array of “exciting new juniors and young men’s lifestyle brands that will deliver style and quality at a smart price.” The campaign will [...]
The Readership Institute’s 2008 tracking study of newspaper and online readership in 100 U.S. communities of various sizes has some good news and bad news but found that lots of people still read newspapers and are paying attention to the local newspaper. Detail can be found at [www.readership.org] 7/9) [...]
BusRadio, which reaches over a million 6-to-18-year-olds with its on-the-school-bus programming, has gotten Arbitron verification for its audience measurement methodology. BusRadio uses Average Five Minute Audience Delivery, which measures the average number of students who can be expected to be listening to BusRadio in any 5-minute segment of a daypart. [...]
Creative Loafing’s 4 Southeastern alternative weeklies are following their siblings in Chicago and Washington, D.C. to Ruxton Media Group. Ruxton will serve as the Creative Loafing paper’s exclusive representative for national print advertising and will also provide non-exclusive representation for online advertising though it’s Ruxton Digital Media Network.
[...]Is “refrigerator journalism” the key to local coverage for newspapers? The term refers to “hyperlocal content that people clip onto their fridges, journalism that may be more personal and “hyper-micro-local.” ([followthemedia.com] 7/9)
[...]The Wyoming Tribune Eagle is investing in a new $15.5 million printing press both to upgrade the daily paper and also to expand the company’s commercial printing business. (7/5 http://www.editorandpublisher.com, AP)
[...]MediaNews Group executives responded to the recent downgrade of their company by Standard & Poor’s with a lengthy memo to staffers that seeks to calm any fears that such a move means bad times for the newspaper chain. The memo comes from MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton and president Jody [...]
DVR impact on broadcast ratings is significant and growing, according to data released by Magna Global USA. Magna’s research shows that while less than one-fourth of all U.S. TV homes have DVRs, they account for 9% of the “Big 5″ networks’ TV ratings, and 15% of viewing by adults 18-49. [...]
Viewers who go online to find out about new TV shows before they premiere are more likely to watch them regularly, and to even convince their friends to watch those programs, according to a study by Yahoo and Deep Focus. The “Engage and Entertain” study also found that there’s a [...]
By Chicago Sun-Times calculations, the paper’s “Fixer” column headed by Stephanie Zimmerman has saved readers more than $500,000. So the Sun-Times celebrated Wednesday by handing out 500 cupcakes outside its downtown offices. In its 2-1/2 years, the column has helped readers get missing refunds, merchandise and services, and has also [...]
The Chicago Reader’s 1st annual Best of Chicago issue hits the streets and online June 25. (6/25 http://aan.org,http://www.chicagoreader.com)
[...]More coverage/headlines about the company’s announcement that it is considering putting two of its properties-the Los Angeles Times’ main office downtown and Tribune Tower in Chicago-on the block. (6/26 LAT C1, WSJ B3, [www.poynter.org]; 6/25 [www.chicagotribune.com], [www.laobserved.com], [featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com])
[...]
Innovations Could Still Allow Them to Reverse Their Fortunes
By Randy Siegel, President of Parade Publications
Published: June 16, 2008 Advertising Age
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — According to the pundits and prognosticators, newspapers are in a death spiral and doomed to extinction, just like the dinosaurs.
But [...]
Tribune: Parody memos that sound like memos from chief innovation officer Lee Abrams are circulating on the Web. ([www.poynter.org] 6/20)
The anonymous blogger at TellZell.com has launched an effort to investigate Sam Zell’s handling of the company’s pension fund. (http://www.tellzell.com 6/20)
Orange County Register Communications introduced its 2-pronged marketing [...]
Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by comScore. Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective sites each month.
http://www.techcrunch.com
Chicago Tribune public editor Timothy McNulty writes about changes coming to the paper and that it is helpful if readers offer their input. So he asks readers why they read the paper and what they value in the newspaper. It’s an informal focus group of people who care enough to [...]
I’ve grown weary of putting up posts about the decline of traditional media. So, I’m going to try to highlight the good things that are happening and positive changes in traditional media with a particular emphasis on newspapers.
Rather than glom-on, here’s a different way of looking at the current situation from [...]
Published: May 07, 2008 Advertising Age
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It seems marketers and TV executives are having a half-full, half-empty kind of argument over TV’s prowess. The results of a survey on consumer media habits commissioned by the Television Bureau of Advertising, out this week after the study [...]
A discrepancy between Google click data and comScore’s estimates of those data before they were released was another reminder that the science of tracking Internet usage is still far from perfect. Digital-advertising executives say they have long taken comScore numbers with a grain of salt and don’t plan on curtailing their [...]
By Kate HoltonTue May 6, 2008 Reuters
Newspapers seeking to compete with the Internet are likely to become free and place greater emphasis on comment and opinion in the future, a survey of the world’s editors showed on Tuesday.
The report, conducted by Zogby International for [...]
Local TV stations should be socializing-networking sites can help viewers connect to community, broadcasters. Q&A with Daniel Miller, executive vp of Neighborhood America, a leader in social media management, about how a local TV station and its advertisers could benefit from social networking. ([www.tvweek.com] 4/27)
[...]Pennsylvania dailies fight bill that would OK legal notices in free papers. Advocates say the bill would save tax dollars, while daily papers argue that allowing legal notices in shoppers would shortchange the public in the end because few people read them. (4/30 http://www.editorandpublisher.com, http://www.philly.com)
[...]In St. Louis, former St. Louis Post-Dispatch staffers close to launching the Beacon. ([www.chicagoreader.com] 4/24 via [www.poynter.org])
[...]The Capital Times in Madison Wisconsin publishes its final daily April 26 after a colorful 90-year history. The paper that battled former Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy and crusaded for decades to build a Frank Lloyd Wright convention center could no longer survive after decades of circulation losses. But the self-described [...]
Editorial and advertising departments should work together, writes Philip M. Stone at FollowtheMedia.com. He says let’s remove the stigma and rename the newsroom the content room. (http://www.followthemedia.com 4/24)
[...]Broadband penetration increased more than 300% since 2002, according to a new analysis from Scarborough research. In 2002, 12% of U.S. adults had a broadband connection in their household. Now 49% have broadband, bringing broadband penetration to a mainstream level. In terms of types of broadband connections, DSL connections grew [...]
The Examiners Free Metro Model; 2 Million UniquesIn light of BostonNows closure this week (apparently for investment-related reasons), Ive been mulling over the future of free metro papers in the U.S. The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and The San Diego Union-Tribune are among newspaper companies that have developed free [...]
The Baltimore Sun on Monday launched a free-distribution, young-skewing daily tabloid called b. The tab will have an initial distribution of 50,00 copies and the Sun said it expects to grow the distribution to 100,000. The tab launched with 40 pages and features short news stories, entertainment and sports. (4/14 [...]
NAA analysis of new Google research finds that newspaper advertising drives online traffic, consumer purchasing. New consumer research conducted by Clark, Martire & Bartolomeo and commissioned by Google indicates that consumers frequently combine use of newspapers and the Internet to evaluate and make purchases, the Newspaper Association of America said. [...]
Nickelodeon, taking its own Earth-first advice to reuse and recycle, is remaking its 15-year-old community service program, “The Big Help” into “The Big Green Help” and devoting 10% of its on-air time to eco-friendly messages. Nickelodeon is spending $30 million a year on the project. The Big Green Help, which [...]
Weekly online radio audience increases from 11% to 13% of Americans in the last year: The Infinite Dial 2008: Radio’s Digital Platforms, the latest study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research, shows continued growth in usage and ownership of various forms of digital audio platforms, including online radio, iPod/MP3 players, [...]
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned that “technology will continue to destroy all of the old ways and old assumptions, especially in the media” during an April 2 speech on “Creative Destruction: News for the 21st Century,” sponsored by the McDonough School of Business. “We have one certainty - we can [...]
