AAN News
Forecast: Local Mobile Advertising (Particularly Search) Will Be Next Hot Trendnew
MediaBuyerPlanner |
06-08-2009 11:52 am |
Industry News
Blog, Cartoon & Music Reporting Finalists Announced
The finalists for the last three AltWeekly Award categories are now in. The leaders in the large-circulation and small-circulation divisions each picked up an additional award, with The Village Voice increasing its overall award count to ten, and the Santa Fe Reporter swelling its total to
six.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
06-03-2009 4:18 pm |
Association News
Nielsen Online: Time Spent on Social Networks Doubles in a Yearnew
PC World |
06-03-2009 10:30 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Study: Online Video Usage Dramatically Overstatednew
Online Media Daily |
06-03-2009 9:20 am |
Industry News
Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Backpage.com Announces Enhanced Services
Unique user-features set online classifies website apart from competition
(FULL STORY)
Backpage.com Press Release |
06-03-2009 8:53 am |
Press Releases
Ad Agencies Use Instantaneous Data to Adjust Online Strategiesnew
The increasing amount of data available about online advertising is leading marketers to turn to data mavens to tweak campaigns based on what is and isn't working, the New York Times reports. Agencies can also use web ads to test out different themes, phrases and imagery before investing in old media ad buys, which are much more expensive. "It's nice to be able to tell your brand manager or the chief marketing officer which audience is interacting with the unit, what time of day, what day of the week, and what the response is on certain types of offers," Varick Media Management president Darren Herman says. "Before, nobody could really tell you that."
The New York Times |
06-02-2009 8:55 am |
Industry News
VVM to Craigslist CEO: There is Nothing Wrong With a Little Competition
In a blog post last Friday, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster complained that politicians are attacking Craigslist for adult ads while ignoring Village Voice Media and other media outlets that run the same ads, because they have a "need for positive stories and campaign endorsements from those very same newspapers." VVM says it empathizes with Craigslist but finds much to be desired in the company's response. "They have a number of moralistic state Attorneys General threatening them over their adult ads, and a raft of bad press following the terrible tragedy in Boston that the company is admittedly in no way responsible for," VVM says in a press release. "But, the manner in which Buckmaster is responding to this pressure -- by disingenuously lashing out at competitors and caving to political pressure -- is inexcusable, and displays a remarkable lack of sound judgment."
(FULL STORY)
Village Voice Media Press Release |
05-29-2009 12:12 pm |
Press Releases
MediaNews Group Starting Test of Home-Printed Newsnew
Editor & Publisher |
05-29-2009 1:08 pm |
Industry News
Metro Santa Cruz Adopts New Name and Design
The paper changed its name to Santa Cruz Weekly earlier this month because "the metropolitan flavor of the name never fit well with the character of Santa Cruz." Plus they were tired of being mistaken for the bus company. "At a transformative moment in the publishing industry, we've adopted a decidedly newspaper-y name to express our optimism about weekly print," wrote editor Traci Hukill and executive editor Dan Pulcrano in a note announcing the change to readers.
(FULL STORY)
Santa Cruz Weekly |
05-28-2009 11:37 am |
Industry News
Number of Adults Using Online Classifieds Has More than Doubled Since 2005new
Pew Internet & American Life Project |
05-27-2009 8:54 am |
Industry News
Willamette Week Webmaster Invited to Prestigious TED Conferencenew
WW's new, MIT-grad webmaster Seth Raphael leads a double life as a technologically savvy magician, MagicSeth, who performs "tricks involving telepathic Google searches and psychic digital cameras." It is in that capacity that he's been selected as one of 25 fellows for 2009 TED Global, which will be held this summer in Oxford. Raphael will give a three-minute presentation to the invitation-only crowd, which is slated to include speakers like Naomi Klein and black-hole specialist Andrea Ghez. "I've never been nervous before," he says. "I get on stage in front of hundreds of people. I applied to MIT. I wing everything. But this made me nervous."
Willamette Week |
05-26-2009 3:04 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Two Tech Firms Build Tools to Protect Content from Digital Thievesnew
Two new tools "could potentially reshape how content is distributed and monetized on the web," Forbes reports. Scribd Store, from the company Scribd, uses a secure widget to help publishers control who is redistributing their content and keep bloggers and others from posting the raw text of an article. Meanwhile, the start-up Attributor asks publishers to upload all their content into the company's servers, which then search the web for the same strings of words.
Forbes |
05-26-2009 9:59 am |
Industry News
Boise Weekly Launches New Website
Boise Weekly Press Release |
05-26-2009 8:34 am |
Press Releases
May the Best Designer Win [members only]
Richard Karpel |
05-22-2009 4:20 pm |
AAN Staff Blog
Convention Early Registration Deadline is Friday
Be sure to register for the 32nd annual AAN Convention by the end of the day on Friday, May 22 to obtain the early registration rate. The discounted rate for members is $325 per person, and for non-members it's $425. On May 23, rates will increase by $50 per person. Click here.
AAN |
05-21-2009 9:56 am |
Association News
