AAN News
40 Percent of VVM's Web Traffic Comes from its Blogsnew
Village Voice Media new media director Bill Jensen says 40 percent of the company's pageviews are coming from the blogs on the newspapers' sites, up from 20 percent a year ago. He also tells TechCrunch VVM is on track to bring in $20 million in online revenues this year, nearly double from 2008. This figure, however, still represents barely more than 10 percent of VVM's revenues.
TechCrunch |
05-21-2009 8:28 am |
Industry News
Ben Eason Sees Opportunity in Chapter 11 Protectionnew
The Creative Loafing CEO tells Editor & Publisher that bankruptcy has given the six-paper chain the opportunity to speed its transformation to digital publishing and to cut its costs. He says that his staff is spending 90 percent of its energy on the web and the other 10 percent on print -- which would be impossible without bankruptcy. "Everyone in the business knows print pays the bills, but most folks don't understand that digital contributes to the profits," he says. In a pre-Chapter 11 company, "the profit expectation baked into the capital structure is entirely based on maintenance of historical print profit margins." Eason also says he expects CL to emerge from bankruptcy this summer.
Editor & Publisher |
05-20-2009 9:19 am |
Industry News
Interactive Advertising Bureau Issues Social Advertising Guidelinesnew
Online Media Daily |
05-19-2009 9:29 am |
Industry News
Study: More Than Half Of Mobile Users Getting Contentnew
Online Media Daily |
05-18-2009 12:12 pm |
Industry News
Charleston City Paper Launches Redesigned Websitenew
Charleston City Paper |
05-18-2009 8:25 am |
Industry News
Craigslist Will Drop 'Erotic Services' Ads, Create New Adult Sectionnew
Under increasing pressure from attorneys general across the U.S., Craigslist says it is eliminating the Erotic Services ad section and replacing it with an Adult Services section where each post will be manually reviewed and where no "nude or graphic photos" will be allowed. MORE: Read the company's statement here.
ABC News |
05-13-2009 1:47 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice Editor: Industry Woes are a 'Business Model Crisis'
At a panel discussion earlier this month at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Tony Ortega talked about web publishing and the print media industry, along with Voice publisher Michael Cohen, Gothamist publisher Jake Dobkin and Alana Taylor of Mashable.com. While noting that, like most papers, the Voice is struggling to do more with less right now, Ortega says the product isn't the problem. "Newspapers have never been more popular in their history," he says. "It's just that our advertisers have no money to spend."
AAN |
05-11-2009 11:02 am |
Industry News
Forecast: Interactive Marketing To Grow 11 Percent in 2009new
Online Media Daily |
05-11-2009 10:19 am |
Industry News
As Fire Blazes, Santa Barbara Independent Reports -- Often
Independent senior editor Matt Kettmann tells us via email that the paper has published about 50 stories since the Jesusita wildfire started on Tuesday afternoon at www.independent.com/jesusita. The paper has been doing up-to-the-minute coverage with a staff of about a dozen -- on top of putting out a print edition this week as well. Kettmann says its an example of "how weeklies can handle pretty important and heavy loads."
AAN News |
05-08-2009 3:48 pm |
Industry News
Two Alt-Weeklies Win EPpy Awardsnew
Las Vegas Weekly has the best entertainment website with fewer than one million unique monthly visitors, and Baltimore City Paper is the best weekly newspaper-affiliated website, according to the 2009 EPpy Awards, which "honor the best websites in the media world." This is City Paper's second EPpy -- it won the Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek sponsored contest in 2006 as well.
Editor & Publisher |
05-07-2009 4:03 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Amazon's Newest Kindle Takes Aim at Newspapersnew
Fortune |
05-07-2009 10:02 am |
Industry News
The Stranger Launches Happy Hour iPhone Appnew
Cocktail Compass, which the alt-weekly rolled out last week, gives iPhone users information on the happy hours currently happening at bars close by. The app allows users to search for bars that have specific attributes, like wifi, dancing or outdoor seating, and it also includes a feature to call a local cab company when the drinking is done. Seattle Weekly responded to the Stranger's news by saying it had launched "the Ripper," a "game-changing new rotary phone app."
The Stranger |
05-05-2009 2:38 pm |
Industry News
East Bay Express Offers Web Solution for Local Businesses
The Express is now offering the LocalBizBlogs service, a do-it-yourself web publishing platform, to small businesses and networks. "Over half of the small businesses in the United States currently do not have a website, and many of those who do find it complicated, time consuming, or cost prohibitive to regularly update," Express publisher Jody Colley says. "LocalBizBlogs can either act as their primary website or a compliment to their legacy site."
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East Bay Express Press Release |
05-05-2009 11:50 am |
Press Releases
Seven More AAN Papers Join SelectAlternatives
Sutcliffe Associates Press Release |
05-04-2009 9:58 am |
Press Releases
Forecast: Mobile Remains One of Fastest Growing Ad Mediumsnew
Online Media Daily |
05-04-2009 8:24 am |
Industry News
