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Ad Industry Roundup: Yahoo/HotJobs; Mercedes; Creative Meets Search; Google; Spot Runner; Guardian - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 26 Mar 2008 05:58 PM PST

-- Yahoo HotJobs introduces ranked searches: A dismal economy inevitably tends to lead to more job seekers, so perhaps Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has timed the launch of HotJobs’ new search…

Short Film Distributor Cinelan Launches, Gets Funding From Arts Alliance - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 25 Feb 2008 01:51 PM PST

We missed this one earlier this month: Cinelan, a new New York City-based company hosting a library of professionally produced three-minute nonfiction short films, launched at the Berlin International Film…

Reuters To Sell Guardian’s Online Inventory In U.S. - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Feb 2008 01:00 AM PST

Guardian, which has a big chunk of its website traffic coming from U.S. but has always had a hard time building out a sales infrastructure here and monitizing it, has…

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Guardian Media And Apax Buy Emap’s B2B Division For $2 Billion; May Merge Some Mags With Incisive - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 21 Dec 2007 10:14 AM PST

So ends the saga of Emap (LSE: EMA), one of the biggest magazine companies to ever exist in UK. It has sold off its remaining division, the B2B media unit,…

@ Monaco: Video Interview: Simon Waldman, Guardian Media Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Nov 2007 12:19 PM PST

From our UK site padContent:UK: At Monaco Media Forum this weekend, I briefly interviewed Simon Waldman, the digital strategy head for the Guardian Media Group. Some of the issues he…

GuardianAmerica.com Launches; Job Ads Planned - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 23 Oct 2007 05:21 AM PST

The Guardian today launched GuardianAmerica.com, its attempt to break in to the US market using a brand of journalism that has already proved a success in the States. The site…

Newspapers To See Profit Boost From Partnership With Yahoo: Analyst - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 28 Sep 2007 01:05 PM PST

Analysts at Deutsche Bank have released a slightly surprising bullish assessment of the wide-ranging partnership between several newspaper publishers and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) that was announced last November. The analysts’…

Interview: Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Media Group: Coming To America - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 18 Sep 2007 08:08 PM PST

The Guardian is planning a “stealthy” launch for its forthcoming U.S. online edition. In an interview with our newest site, paidContent:UK (see full transcript), Guardian Media Group (GMG) CEO Carolyn…

Guardian Buys Public Sector Information Publisher Kable - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 15 Aug 2007 11:10 AM PST

Guardian News & Media, the division of Guardian Media Group that publishes the likes of The Observer and Guardian Unlimited, has bought Kable, a public sector information publisher, for an…

Earnings: Guardian Digital Revenue Doubles As Classifieds Slide; Acquisitions Planned - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 01 Aug 2007 12:22 AM PST

From the Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) results ... Digital revenue from display and recruitment ads at UK’s Guardian News & Media (GNM), the national newspaper division, grew 49 percent in…

European Newspapers Join For An Online Ad Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 25 Jul 2007 09:17 AM PST

Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), the subsidiary of U.K. newspaper publisher DMGT that operates sites including DailyMail.co.uk and ThisIsLondon, has signed with Tomorrow Focus, a German digital content company, to sell…

Industry Moves UK: BBC Loses iPlayer ‘Inventor’ To Lovefilm; Guardian Radio - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 23 Jul 2007 01:16 AM PST

The “inventor” of the BBC’s forthcoming iPlayer web TV catch-up application is leaving the corporation. Ben Lavender becomes group digital and product manager at European online DVD rental service Lovefilm.…

MediaGuardian 100: Schmidt Up, Thompson Down, Zuckerberg Nowhere - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 11 Jul 2007 08:40 AM PST

Have a large grain of salt handy? MediaGuardian is out with its seventh annual list of the 100 most influential figures in media, declaring “this year we ripped up the…

The Brits Are Coming! UK News Media Head For U.S., But Can They Make A Buck? - 3 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 03 Jul 2007 02:59 AM PST

Several British news organizations are making efforts to tailor publishing efforts to an American audience. The IHT summarizes some of the headway made to date: Times: Has already started distributing…

Industry Moves UK: Guardian; 3UK; Teachers TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 07:44 AM PST

- Guardian: Deputy commercial director Adam Freeman has been promoted to Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) commercial director position, replacing Stuart Taylor. Freeman has been with GNM since 1992, when…

@ OPA: Guardian to Launch US Commentisfree, Readies for 24/7 Web 2.0 - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 08 Mar 2007 07:03 AM PST

Britain’s Guardian intends to launch an American version of its Commentisfree op-ed portal in an effort bring liberal opinion to the US, editor Alan Rusbridger told the OPA Forum for…

Guardian Merges Print And Online Business Teams Into One - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 09 Jan 2007 02:46 PM PST

Guardian group in UK has combined its print and digital divisions on the business side. The paper will revamp its Guardian Unlimited ad sales digital and print teams into one…

Industry Moves: Guardian; ITV; Audible-ShowWiki - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Sep 2006 12:11 PM PST

-- Guardian hires digital development head: Guardian Newspapers has appointed Tom Turcan to the new role of head of digital media development. Turcan, the chairman of publishing services company Dovetail,…

Industry Moves UK: Emily Bell, Guardian; Ben Feingold, Sony Pictures Home Ent. - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Sun 17 Sep 2006 06:11 PM PST

-- Guardian: Emily Bell has been promoted to director of digital content and will now sit on the board of Guardian Newspapers. She will be responsible for developing and expanding…

Interview: Simon Waldman, Director Of Digital Strategy, Guardian Media Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 06 Sep 2006 12:11 AM PST

The Guardian is no longer a UK national newspaper, said Simon Waldman - recently promoted to director of digital strategy for the Guardian Media Group. ”Media organizations are traditionally based…

UK’s Times Online Aiming To Overtake Guardian’s Audience - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Fri 01 Sep 2006 12:11 PM PST

Some News International snippets in this MediaGuardian interview with Les Hinton, Murdoch’s “special envoy on earth” - otherwise known as executive chairman. The old MySun community site rumour is hinted…

UK Industry Moves: Waldman Upped At Guardian; NatGeo New Media Head; WaBo UK Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 31 Aug 2006 08:10 AM PST

-- A long overdue move: Guardian Unlimited‘s director of digital publishing Simon Waldman has been promoted: he’s now director of digital strategy and development for the whole Guardian Media Group.…

The Death Of Newspapers, Again: Advertisers Will Follow Audiences - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Sun 27 Aug 2006 06:10 PM PST

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Independent editor Simon Kelner were on BBC Radio 4’s Today program Friday morning responding to another of those “newspapers are dead” pieces - this time…

Earnings: Guardian Media Group’s Revenues Dip; Digital Up 41 Percent; Launches G24 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 28 Jul 2006 11:09 AM PST

UK’s Guardian Media Group announced its full year 2005-2006 results today, and while the print is still in a bad shape, the online is booming. Its turnover from continuing operations…

@ What MySpace Means: Guardian’s Online Community - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Fri 23 Jun 2006 10:07 AM PST

Guardian tech editor Victor Keegan just got back from Telford, home of the industrial revolution, which makes a tidy introduction for his thoughts on The Guardian’s online community. He reckons…