Why can’t television be more like a tablet? [NYTimes]

The same consumers who delight in navigating the iPad still click
frustratingly through cable channels to find a basketball game. Their
complaint: Why can’t television be more like a tablet? The technology
industry is trying to address that question for the millions of
customers ready to embrace the next generation of viewing options. In
the process it could transform the clunky cable interface, with its
thousands of channels and a bricklike remote control, into a series of
apps that pop up on the television screen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/business/media/developers-are-working-on-te...

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Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti: Display dollars aren’t coming back [paidContent]

Jonah Peretti, a founder of the Huffington Post and viral content site
Buzzfeed, says the sun is setting on display ads, and publishers
should focus instead on ads tailored for social media. “People are
trying to get back to the way it was,” said Peretti in a recent
interview. “With traditional display, people have figured out clever
ways to get more clicks out of ads that don’t perform well.”

http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/28/buzzfeeds-jonah-peretti-display-dollars-are...

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'Economist' Reveals Digital Circ; Magazines slow to adopt new reporting form [AdWeek]

So far, 30 or so newspapers have released Consolidated Media Reports.
Magazines have been slow to follow suit, but they’re starting to. On
April 30, The Economist will release a CMR, the second major title to
do so. (Popular Science released the first one last fall and parent
Bonnier Corp. is getting ready to release reports for three more
titles, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and Popular Photography.) The
Economist has had a good print and digital story to tell, so it’s not
totally surprising that it’s one of the first to adopt this new
reporting format.

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/economist-reveals-digital-circ-139933

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Magazines Get Serious About Ecommerce [Mashable]

Magazine publishers are rapidly getting serious about ecommerce.
Earlier this month, Time Out New York, a weekly print and digital
magazine covering entertainment in New York City, began selling event
tickets through its website and iOS apps. And last week, Hearst-owned
Real Simple magazine released a mobile gift guide that allows users to
shop directly from the app. The next day, Elle magazine launched a
shoppable trend guide on Facebook that encouraged users to make
purchases on advertisers’ websites. These initiatives are enabling
lifestyle magazines to explore new revenue streams as their mainstay
moneymaker, print advertising, continues to decline.

http://mashable.com/2012/04/29/magazines-ecommerce/

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[US] Newspaper Site Traffic and Times Up [MediaPost]

Newspaper Web sites drew 113 million unique visitors per month in the
first quarter of 2012, up 4.4% from the first quarter of 2011 and 1.8%
from 111 million in the fourth quarter, according to comScore data
cited by the Newspaper Association of America. The average number of
daily unique visitors to newspaper Web sites also increased, growing
10% to 25 million in the first quarter of 2012. Total reach was
basically flat at just below 64% of the total U.S. adult Internet
population.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/173260/newspaper-site-traffic-t...

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Nick Denton wants to turn the online media world on its head [GigaOM]

Gawker is remaking comments from the ground up, Denton told GigaOM in
an interview in his SoHo office on Wednesday — and the vision behind
the changes that will be rolling out soon is nothing less than a
reinvention of what the company is about, and also an attempt to
literally flip the world of online content on its head.

http://gigaom.com/2012/04/20/nick-denton-wants-to-turn-the-online-media-world...

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[US] Mobile ad revenue to reach $11.6 billion this year [B2BOnline]

Mobile ad revenue will reach an estimated $11.6 billion this year, up
85.4% over last year, according to a forecast from research and
consulting company Strategy Analytics.

http://www.btobonline.com/article/20120420/ADVERTISING0401/304209998/mobile-a...

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[US] Internet Ad Revenue Totals $31B in 2011, Up 22% [Clickz]

It's official: 2011 was the year of mobile - and search and display
advertising. The Interactive Advertising Bureau's Internet Advertising
Report, prepared by PwC U.S., reveals that digital advertising revenue
totaled $31 billion in 2011. That represents an increase of 22 percent
over 2010. Mobile advertising was the fastest growing segment, hitting
$1.6 billion in 2011, more than twice the amount spent in the prior
year.

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2168753/internet-revenue-totals-usd31b-2011-22

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Mail Online is about to turn its first profit

Having quickly become the world’s most-read newspaper website, Mail
Online now looks like turning profitable earlier than expected. “Last
year, our revenues were £16 million. This year, Mail Online is very
close to breaking even on revenues of a little over £25 million,” site
publisher revealed to investment analysts at owner DMGT’s investor day
on Wednesday.

http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/18/mailonline

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Report: The Future of Money in a Mobile Age [PewInternet]

Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained
mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could largely replace
cash and credit cards for most online and in-store purchases by
smartphone and tablet owners, according to a new survey of technology
experts and stakeholders. Many of the people surveyed by Elon
University’s Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Research
Center’s Internet & American Life Project said that the security,
convenience and other benefits of “mobile wallet” systems will lead to
widespread adoption of these technologies for everyday purchases by
2020.

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Money.aspx

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Apple, Priceline and Google race to hit $1,000-a-share mark [USAToday]

Priceline, Apple, Google and Intuitive Surgical are in a four-way
battle to see which will be the first Standard & Poor's 500 stock to
break the $1,000-a-share barrier. "It's the new ego boost, to get a
stock to $1,000," says Jon Johnson of StockSplits.net.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/stocks/story/2012-04-03/apple-priceline-g...

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Facebook's Global Ambitions Lure Advertisers [Clickz]

Facebook, which is expected to IPO next month, obviously has Asia in
its sights. CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Japan and China last week,
stating on his trip that Facebook's Japanese users doubled during the
last six months. While his firm is the leading social network in India
and the Philippines, it trails regional competitor Mixi in Japan and
is banned in China. On Tuesday, Facebook added eight Indian languages
for mobile. Future user growth in the region will mean ad sales for
Zuckerberg and his shareholders. But at the same time, the company's
aims appear borderless.

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2166199/facebooks-global-ambitions-lure-adv...

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The economics of Samantha Brick & Mail Online's audience-driven marketing machine [MediaBriefing]

How can a news site pick an obscure freelance journalist and make her
a subject of global debate, driving 1.5 million users to one story in
little more than 24 hours while generating more than 5,000 comments,
100,000 Facebook likes, 7,000 tweets and a slew of articles across
the web? That's how Mail Online rolls.

http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2012-04-04/The-economics-of-Samantha-...

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Web surfers to pay online using Facebook, Twitter [Reuters]

A one-click online payment system using Facebook and Twitter that
could boost Internet sales for newspapers, music vendors and other
low-priced goods and services is being tested by a major European
media company, according to its developer. The new system, developed
by a start-up company in Belgium, means Internet surfers can pay to
read a single article or download a piece of music without having to
fill out forms or enter their credit card details on the website.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/02/net-us-paycento-internet-idUSBRE831...

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Google TV is coming to Europe this September [GigaOm]

Sony will start selling Google TV-based products in Europe in
September, according to a report by Les Echos. The site reports
comments by Sony France marketing director Stephane Labrousse that the
CE maker will sell two devices: A set-top box which will go on sale
for €200 ($266) and a box with an integrated Blu-ray player that will
sell for €300 ($399).

http://gigaom.com/video/google-tv-european-launch/

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