It seems nearly impossible to believe someone at AdAge would ever make a mistake. Well, it seems it is possible and, damn!, it seems huge mistakes can happen. Believe it or not, it’s a copy/paste error. Which means… well, it means someone forgot to double-check the numbers. We’re ... Read more
CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs, Octavia Nasr, has supposedly resigned from her job after an unfortunate tweet that came back to her like a boomerang. Nasr tweeted about her regrets regarding the death of one of the Hezbollah leaders, Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, credited as one of ... Read more
Advertising Age breaks the news: According to news-monitoring service VMS, the media coverage Twitter got in the last 30 days worths 48 million dollars. That’s half Microsoft’s Bing.com launch advertising budget. AdAge asks just below the title: Can Twitter maintain its sizzle? I think the right question is: ... Read more
What we know by now: newspapers are losing audience, sales are going down, internet is growing, it’s a financial crisis, so advertising revenues are falling just as well for the print industry, advertisers go for special projects and online campaigns. Everyone is focusing on efficiency. What is going to happen? Where does the future of media stands? Where are the opportunities in growing your audience? One idea: now it’s the right time to focus on consumer oriented subjects. ... Read more
I have this problem with talk-shows: they always resume to pointing a finger and saying “That’s really, really, really wrong, I mean it, it’s so stupid”. And that’s it. Maybe I’m not watching enough international talk-shows, but the ones I see and there are politicians invited, they alwayshave to be limited at sticking a finger in your eyes. No one comes with solutions, for example. ... Read more
As you might have heard, Nikki Finke’s blog was sold to Mail.com Media Corporation for no less than 10 million dollars. That’s actually huge for such an ugly blog. I might say, that’s one of the ugliest websites I have ever seen in my 25 years lifetime. Still, DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com is ranked 455 by Technorati.com, which means it’s in Top 500. It probably worth the money ... Read more
I work in media for six years. I learned all about news reporting in a town with 100.000 people. I learned how to do an investigation. I learned how a killer looks like. I learned how parents suffer when their children are taken away by waters. I’ve seen crime scenes, I’ve talked to criminals, I’ve seen how a place looks like after natural calamities. I tried to understand what people want to read, what’s news and what’s crap. And there’s the Iran matter. ... Read more
A few days ago, one of my friends came up with this theory about local online advertising markets, which is actually a paradox, but it might be true: the more English speakers in a country, the less the traffic on local websites. And the country I live in is the perfect example of that. The explanation is, just as well, really credible, and you can even compare the online situation with other mediums such as television. ... Read more
If you’ve seen Babylon A.D., then you might have seen Google’s product placement. In the South European country Vin Diesel lives, he watches the news using a live streaming news service provided by Google. It’s like Google has it’s own TV network. There are chances that it’s a one time presentation for this idea. I don’t know if Google had it or if it came from some guy working with the movie crew, but it’s absolutely brilliant. Let’s talk about this idea and let’s find out what are the chances to come true. ... Read more