Ticket sales are now open for our upcoming EconAds seminar on June 3rd in NYC. As we have done with our previous seminars, this will be a smaller, more intimate experience. The in-progress program is here.
The seminar will focus on key sectors in the online advertising market. We will look broadly at the marketplace to see what disruptions lie ahead and where the investors are focused and where VC and M&A activity is heating up. The program is specifically targeted towards leading media, advertising and investment executives and is designed to promote knowledge sharing and encourage networking.

Confirmed Speakers

Doug Anmuth Analyst, Lehman Brothers
Samir Arora, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Glam Media
Lynda Clarizio, President, Platform-A, AOL
Peter C. Horan: CEO, IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Media and Advertising
Lance Maerov, SVP, Corporate Development, WPP
Dave Morgan, Founder, Tacoda
Nancy Peretsman, EVP, Managing Director, Allen & Co
Mike Walrath, SVP, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Advertiser Marketplace Group; Former CEO, Right Media

Sponsors: Platinum: IAC. Gold: Wall Street Journal Digital Network. For underwriting the event, e-mail our business side at advertising AT contentnext.com.

Thanks to Digital Hollywood for helping us co-locate our event there along with the bigger Advertising 2.0 conference on June 4th and 5th. This is part of the Internet Week.

While the Journal Register (NYSE: JRC) Company posted a net loss of $72.2 million ($1.84 per diluted share) for Q1, the publisher’s online revenues grew by 22.8 percent year-over-year. All of the Journal Register’s regions experienced online growth, with the Greater Cleveland cluster gaining more than 84 percent during the period. Online revenues accounted for 6.4 percent of total advertising revenue in Q1, versus to 4.6 percent in the prior year.

The rest of of the company’s Q1 earnings were not so positive, as the Journal Register, buffeted by a darkening economy and plagued by industrywide circ and advertiser pullback saw declines elsewhere. Classified ad revenues fell 14.4 percent, while national ad dollars dropped 16.9 percent. Meanwhile, the net loss - compared to income from continuing operations of $1.5 million ($0.04 per diluted share) Q107 - included a $95.4 million non-cash charge for the “impairment of assets” relating to a write-down of the carrying value of mastheads and goodwill for the Michigan and New York clusters. Total revenues for the publisher of the New Haven Register and other regional papers were down 10.3 percent to $102.4 million from $114.1 million last year. Release

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent:UK, mocoNews and contentSutra:

paidContent:UK:
-- @ PPA: Times Gets Closer To WSJ, Preps Web Archive
-- Reuters Media Shake-Up: Clearer Picture, ‘Not A Revolution’
-- YHOO Gains, MSFT Wobbles In Europe; Antitrust Hurdles Remain
-- WPP Expected To Bid Higher For TNS; Sorrell: Rejection Was ‘Cavalier’; TNS: Offer Was ‘Derisory’
-- Updated: BBC Commits iPlayer To Kontiki
-- Blinkx Rises And Falls On Mystical Google/News Corp Market Chatter

mocoNews:
-- Sprint-Clearwire: Google’s Role Too Big? Pay-For-Access Deal Raises Net Neutrality-Like Concerns
-- Sprint-Clearwire: Interview: Ben Wolff, CEO, Clearwire: Deal Is “Locked And Loaded”
-- Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered
-- @ Digital Hollywood: iPhone, LBS And Foreign Markets Influencing Mobile Landscape
-- Updated: Qwest Inks Deal With Verizon Wireless; Sprint Is Likely Out Of The Picture
-- Updated: T-Mobile USA Turns On 3G Today In NYC; Most Major Markets By Year-End

contentSutra:
-- @NDTV NMC: Mainstream Digital Media; Display Beats Search Advertising?
-- Yahoo India Adds Content To Search Results With Glue Page
-- YouTube India Goes Live
-- Vodafone To Launch iPhone In India This Year
-- Bharti Airtel Bids $22 Per Share For South African Telco MTN: Report
-- Web18 Reorganization: Khiani Appointed COO For Content, Thomas COO For Financial Properties

Jupitermedia (NSDQ: JUPM), the images and online media company, has reported its Q108 earnings, and revenues for the quarter were down slightly, to $34.5 million, compared to revenues of $34.8 million for the year ago quarter. The net losses increased to about $1.1 million, from losses of about $728K in the year-ago quarter. Its revenues on the online media side (which includes Mediabistro now) increased to $8.4 million for the quarter, compared to $6.85 million in the year-ago quarter. Revenues for its images business decreased to $26.14 million, compared to $27.9 million in the year-ago quarter. More details in release here.

• 10-K Watch: Jupitermedia: Mediabistro: $7.8 Million In ‘07; 37 Percent Growth