Fox Interactive

FIM Moving To New LA HQ In Playa Del Rey; Consolidating All LA Offices - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 30 Jun 2008 07:13 PM PST

Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) is celebrating its third birthday* by finally announcing a new headquarters that should be big enough to house all of its LA staff in one…

Industry Moves: WB; Rotten Tomatoes; IAB; ESPN; MSN UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:46 PM PST

-- WB: Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes has been promoted to SVP-business and legal affairs for the company’s Digital Distribution division. In her new capacity she will provide counsel on acquisition, distribution…

Industry Moves: Changes At FIM’s Scout: SVP Patrick Crumb Leaves For Liberty Media; Husvar New GM - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 03:24 PM PST

Patrick Crumb, the SVP at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), and GM of sports site network Scout Media, which FIM bought in 2005, has left the company, and is joining…

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The New MySpace Homepage Is… - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jun 2008 02:24 PM PST

...live now, the one we mentioned in a post last week. The takeover advertiser for today is The Dark Knight, the Batman movie from Warner Bros.

MySpace Biggest Chance At Hitting The Refresh Button: Relaunching Homepage and Other Functions - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 08:58 PM PST

MySpace, which realized late last year that it needed to hit the refresh button on its design, layout and functionalities after years of bandaging services together, is now about a…

Networks Accuse Video Sharer RedLasso Of Breaking Copyright Laws - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 20 May 2008 04:12 PM PST

Last November, we wrote about the $6.5 million funding of RedLasso, a video sharing platform for professional content, which promised control and revenue sharing for content creators. RedLasso embeds have…

Facebook Agonistes: Advertisers, Adults, Developers Pulling Back; Banking On Global - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 14 May 2008 10:28 AM PST

While it looked as if Facebook might have rebounded quickly from its Beacon debacle last fall, Fortune contends the revolution is steadily losing steam. The site grew 12-fold since opening…

After MySpace And Facebook, Google Completes Open Trifecta - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 12 May 2008 11:46 AM PST

If you must have your news accompanied by a gripping narrative, then you could say that on back-to-back-to-back business days, MySpace, Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) all announced new social…

Social Networks And Profitability: Facebook, MySpace Look Beyond Ads - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 12 May 2008 11:40 AM PST

Much has been made about Facebook’s $15 billion valuation, but when will it start making some actual profits? Mike Murphy, the social net’s VP of media sales, tells USAT that’s…

Coming Soon To The Endangered Species List: Online Ad Sales Teams? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 07 May 2008 08:48 PM PST

The self-serve ads option has been all the rage for search ads the last few years. Increasingly, now, do-it-yourself is becoming similarly popular for the display ad space. Over the…

News Corp: Yahoo ‘Talks’ Overstated; No Discussions With Microsoft or AOL Ongoing - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 02:37 PM PST

Asked during a press call today about cooling talks with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), News Corp (NYSE: NWS) COO Peter Chernin replied quickly: “Saying talks have cooled overstates them ... I’m…

Updated: Chernin On FIM: ‘Yes, We Will Fall Short’ On $1B Revenue; ‘Too Soon To Milk For Margins’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:59 PM PST

First chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch got defensive about Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), then News Corp COO Peter Chernin hit the stories about Fox Interactive Media not making its $1…

Updated: Murdoch Comes Out Swinging On DJ; Defends Deal; Not Giving Up On Newsday - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:45 PM PST

Rupert Murdoch is intent on changing the Street’s image of News Corp’s (NYSE: NWS) investment in Dow Jones and he’s using today’s earnings call to make the case that the…

Earnings: News Corp Q1 Revenues Up 16 Percent; ‘Strong Revenue Growth’ For FIM—Higher Costs, Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:08 PM PST

Rupert Murdoch probably won’t send a thank-you note to John Malone but News Corp (NYSE: NWS) delivered a profit of $2.7 billion, or $0.91 per share, up dramatically from $827…

FIM Aims For Local Advertisers With Self-Serve Ad Offerings - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 05 May 2008 07:42 AM PST

As it continues to refine and expand its range of ad offerings, Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) is turning to local TV stations in the Fox family to help it…

MySpace Ups Berman To President, Sales And Marketing; Begins Testing Community Ad Program For Brands - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Apr 2008 05:17 AM PST

MySpace is promoting Jeff Berman from EVP-marketing and content to the new post of president of sales and marketing. Only the title is a surprise; Berman’s role as the Fox…

Asian Expansion: MySpace Korea, AOL Hong Kong - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Apr 2008 04:31 PM PST

MySpace went live in South Korea today—and head to head with some of the toughest social network competition out there. Forget Facebook, as I heard and saw during my too-brief…

Fox Fusion Attempts To Boost Cable News Sites’ Ad Revs, Traffic With Help From WSJ Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:37 PM PST

Just in time for next month’s TV upfront, Fox will begin unveiling a new ad sales program designed to match up media buys along its cable channels and online news…

MySpace And ShineReveille Partner On International TV Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 10 Apr 2008 12:57 PM PST

MySpace has signed a distribution deal with UK TV production house ShineReveille that’s intended to expand the reach of their original programming internationally and online, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…

Broadband Content Bits: MySpace Latino; MSNBC Streams; Nielsen’s VideoCensus; CelebTV-thePlatform - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 08 Apr 2008 05:14 PM PST

-- MySpace builds out new Hispanic sites: The Fox Interactive social network says it is building on the bilingual MySpace Latino site it launched last year with eight new communities…

New Fox Interactive Group Moves Into Yahoo Center In Santa Monica - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 10:17 PM PST

We had heard rumors to this effect earlier in the year, and some gossip and speculation about whether Fox Interactive could get the rights to rename the *Yahoo* Center in…

Fox Interactive Media Restructuring: Memo From Peter Levinsohn: Optimizing Monetization - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 09:45 PM PST

Fox Interactive scrambled to send out a staff memo, and we have it below. It comes from Peter Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS). This is the pertinent…

FIM Reorganizes: Barrett Out; Bain President Of New FIM Audience Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 03 Apr 2008 08:26 PM PST

Major changes at Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), all centered on money ... Michael Barrett is leaving rather than change roles after his job of chief revenue officer was eliminated…

Ad Industry Roundup: Job Numbers; Conde Nast; NBCU/Fox; AzoogleAds; Modernista; McDonald’s; Omnicom - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:51 PM PST

-- Online jobs post first year-over-year decline: Online job vacancies posted an unusually poor showing last month, as the Conference Board said listings fell slightly by 21,200 from March 2007…

MySpace Adopts Chinese Name ‘Juyou’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Pearl Research - Fri 28 Mar 2008 12:00 PM PST

MySpace.cn has confirmed its Chinese name to be Juyou, which means getting friends together. Former MSN China CEO Luo Chuan joined MySpace in 2006 and released the first test version…