How Publishers Are Reacting to Facebook’s New Features [Folio]

Last week, Facebook rolled out several new features during its fourth
annual F8 Developer Conference that could change the way the magazine
industry interacts with the social media platform.

http://www.foliomag.com/2011/how-publishers-are-reacting-facebook-s-new-features

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Facebook will be the leading distributor of media by 2020, says former Bebo investor [NMA]

Facebook will be the leading distributor of media by the year 2020,
according to Dharmash Mistry, partner at former Bebo investor
Balderton Capital. Speaking at Red Bee Media’s Tomorrow Calling event
on the 27th in London, Dharmash said Facebook is a “twin power” to
Google in terms of traffic and is fast becoming a core online content
destination.

http://www.nma.co.uk/news/facebook-will-be-the-leading-distributor-of-media-b...

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IAB: Internet Advertising Reaches A Record $15B In First Half Of 2011; Up 23 Percent [TechCrunch]

The Internet Advertising Bureau just released its numbers of the first
half of 2011, and it looks like internet ad revenue reached record
highs during the time period. Internet ad revenues rose 23.2 percent —
to a record $14.9 billion — in the first half of 2011. The rate of
growth more than doubled year-over-year, as last year’s first-half ad
revenues were $12.1 billion (and represented an 11.3 percent increase
over 2009)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/iab-internet-advertising-reaches-a-record-15...

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Magazines Begin to Sell the Fashion They Review [NYTimes]

On Park & Bond, a new e-commerce site for designer men’s wear, Jim
Moore, the creative director for GQ, can be found describing a red
Calvin Klein turtleneck as “something that can take that gray flannel
suit and give it a little bon vivant.” The sweater, which costs $225,
is tagged as a GQ Pick, inside the GQ Store. In Esquire’s September
issue, David Granger, the magazine’s editor in chief, invites readers
to check out Cladmen.com, a site starting in October that will sell
items like a $228 pair of chukka boots from Cole Haan or a $795 suit
from Michael Kors, specifically selected by the magazine. Fashion
magazines are suddenly getting into the retailing business.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/media/magazines-begin-to-sell-the-...

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Magazine execs psyched over color Kindle [Crains New York]

Nobody knows how big it will be, what it will look like or how much it
will cost. But the mere rumors that Amazon.com will bring out a color
tablet this fall have gotten magazine publishers more excited than
they've been since—well, since Apple was preparing to launch the iPad
last year. It's no secret why anticipation is running high. Growing
sales of digital editions on the iPad and Barnes & Noble's Nook Color
have provided the one bright spot in an industry beset by shrinking
newsstand sales and a wobbly advertising market.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110925/MEDIA_ENTERTAINMENT/309259971

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WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet [Forbes]

Is Facebook a friend of news companies, or is it a rival? No matter
how much success publishers have piggybacking off its traffic, they
can’t escape the cruel math: The more of their time consumers spend on
Facebook and other social networking hubs, the less they have left
over for news sites. Now The Wall Street Journal has what it thinks is
an answer to this problem. Called WSJ Social, it filters Journal
content through the so-called social graph to yield a news product
that lives entirely within the walls of Facebook. It launches Tuesday.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/09/19/wsj-social-for-a-world-w...

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Embattled Yahoo prepares Livestand launch with magazine publishers [MediaWeek]

First announced in February this year, and chalked to launch by June,
Livestand is an HMTL 5 based product that hopes to attract publishers
of all sizes wanting to launch personalised media-rich content for
tablets and smart phones. Yahoo is hoping it will attract the
attention of magazine publishers in particular, with its
platform-agnostic solution to digitising content.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1093271/Yahoo-launch-game-changer-Livestand-m...

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Facebook to Offer Path to Media [NYTimes]

This week, according to numerous media and technology executives,
Facebook will unveil a media platform that will allow people to easily
share their favorite music, television shows and movies, effectively
making the basic profile page a primary entertainment hub. Facebook,
which has more than 750 million users, has not revealed its plans, but
the company is widely expected to announce the service at its F8
developers’ conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/business/media/facebook-is-expected-to-unve...

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Guardian launches new US homepage [Guardian]

Guardian News & Media has launched its newhomepage,
http://www.guardiannews.com, from its digital operation in New York.
Readers can switch between the UK and US versions of the Guardian
homepage by choosing from a dropdown menu at the top left-hand corner
of each edition's front page. Janine Gibson, editor of GNM's US
operation, said of Wednesday's launch: "It's just one page today, but
we hope that by presenting a targeted homepage, we'll be able to
better display the stories that are most relevant to our US readers."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/15/guardian-new-us-homepage

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Mashable Expanding Its Coverage [NYTimes]

Mashable, the popular Web site for information about technology and
social media, said Tuesday that it was expanding coverage to include
new sections for entertainment, United States news and world news, and
that it was hiring a veteran technology editor to oversee all
editorial content. Lance Ulanoff, 47, the former editor of pcmag.com
and senior vice president of content for Ziff Davis Web sites, will
run day to day coverage at Mashable.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/mashable-expanding-its-cover...

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Introducing Twitter Web Analytics [Twitter]

Today we’re announcing Twitter Web Analytics, a tool that helps
website owners understand how much traffic they receive from Twitter
and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter
Web Analytics was driven by the acquisition of BackType, which we
announced in July. The product provides three key benefits: Understand
how much your website content is being shared across the Twitter
network; See the amount of traffic Twitter sends to your site; Measure
the effectiveness of your Tweet Button integration.

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analytics

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FT launches advertiser-funded app for luxury title [Campaign]

The Financial Times has launched a free iPad app today (13 September)
for its How to Spend it luxury magazine. The app will offer consumers
daily postings and 60 back-editions of the lifestyle magazine. The app
is advertiser-funded and commercial opportunities for advertisers
include a brand hub where advertisers can showcase their brand and
products in detail.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1091060/ft-launches-advertiser-funded-app-...

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Flipboard sees magazine future in tablet computers [AFP/Yahoo]

"The tablet, and principally the iPad, is creating a totally new kind
of consumption experience," Flipboard chief executive Mike McCue said
during an on-stage chat at a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San
Francisco. "All these things people have dreamed about are finally
happening. Technology is finally at a point were it is possible to
hold what feels like a magazine in your hand and thumb through it."

http://news.yahoo.com/flipboard-sees-magazine-future-tablet-computers-1906367...

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Social Media Report: Spending Time, Money and Going Mobile [nielsenwire]

Social media not only connects consumers with each other, but also
with just about every place they go and everything they watch and buy.
Nielsen’s new Social Media Report looks at trends and consumption
patterns across social media platforms in the U.S. and other major
markets, exploring the rising influence of social media on consumer
behavior.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/social-media-report-spendin...

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Report Details Rise of Social Media [NYTimes]

Nielsen, which has long provided such information about the
traditional media, is seeking to become a go-to source of data for new
media, too. To help bolster that, Nielsen is to release on Monday
morning a report of a kind it says it has not published before, a
big-picture look at social media.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/report-details-rise-of-socia...

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Huffington Post publishes its first e-book, with plans for more [Poynter]

The Huffington Post breaks into the e-book business today with “A
People’s History of the Great Recession,” based on reporter Arthur
Delaney’s blogging about economic hardship. With this, HuffPost joins
a surge of news organizations that are tapping into their staff
expertise and troves of published material for relatively quick and
inexpensive e-books.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/mobile-media/145231/huffington-p...

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Reuters Taps Percolate to Create News Aggregation Site That Doesn't Suck [AdAge]

At a time when the Business Insiders and Huffington Posts of the media
world are doing anything and everything to pump up page views for
advertising dollars, Reuters has created an aggregation site with
usability at the core. The financial news service has launched
Counterparties.com, a content-aggregation website that highlights 20
to 30 of the day's most compelling financial news and opinion stories
and links directly out to each one from the homepage. In that way it
is more Drudge Report than Huffington Post.

http://adage.com/article/digital/reuters-taps-percolate-news-aggregation-site...

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Facebook spawning network of ad partners [MercuryNews]

Facebook is relying on a fast-growing network of independent partners
to build an advertising sector that some say may ultimately rival the
network of companies that grew up in the past decade around Google's
search revolution.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18805737

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