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Interview: People.com’s Golin, Hauser: Being More Aggressive By Being Soft; Games Channel Introduced - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Jul 2008 03:14 PM PST

Celebrity-oriented news sites have grown substantially over the past year—*comScore* says the category’s traffic has grown 31 percent from May 2007 to May 2008. So while the space has been…

Industry Moves: Skype; AOL; NBCU - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Jul 2008 09:50 AM PST

-- Skype: Skype has tapped former Motorola exec Scott Durchslag as its COO, a new post reporting to recently appointed president Josh Silverman. Durchslag brings 20 years of experience from…

Microsoft-Yahoo: No Real End In Sight—To The Scheming, That Is; Latest Has MSFT Seeking Help - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 01 Jul 2008 09:21 PM PST

The latest variation on the Microsoft-Yahoo theme comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which is reporting that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is looking for lab partners in some kind of…

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Industry Moves: AOL; Facebook; Smalltown; NaturalPath - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 30 Jun 2008 04:34 PM PST

-- AOL: The Time Warner unit is continuing its European integration with a radical reshuffle emphasizing the ad operation over AOL UK’s publishing side. AOL UK MD Michael Steckler is…

AOL To Guarantee CPM Rates To Bebo, Facebook Developers - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 29 Jun 2008 09:01 PM PST

AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Platform-A is trying to entice developers to make apps that carry its ads by promising guaranteed rates for CPMs on Facebook and Bebo, which AOL bought for…

The Netflix Hope: Time Inc’s Maghound Set To Launch in Sept - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 27 Jun 2008 07:58 PM PST

Time Inc’s long-in-development magazine subscription website Maghound, which borrows concepts heavily from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), is slated to launch this September...this comes after four years (yes!) of continuous development and…

FCC Regs Opening Pay TV Service To Telcos Upheld By Appeals Court - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 27 Jun 2008 05:53 PM PST

Telcos scored a victory in federal court Friday upholding an earlier Federal Communications Commission ruling that will ease the path for companies like Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T)…

Publicis Forms ‘Open Source’ Ad Network; Partners With AOL, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 25 Jun 2008 05:32 AM PST

Paris-based ad holding company Publicis Groupe has formed an ad network relying on all four of the major ad serving systems run by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Google/DoubleClick, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)…

EconAds Video: Platform-A’s Lynda Clarizio On Integration, Bebo, Ad Nets & Pork Bellies - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sat 14 Jun 2008 07:50 PM PST

Earlier this month at our EconAds seminar in NYC, our co-editor Staci D. Kramer interviewed Lynda Clarizio, president of Platform-A and EVP of AOL about the $1.5 billion in acquisitions…

Updated: Choppy Waters For Weather Channel: Time Warner Withdraws Bid; NBCU In Exclusive Talks - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 10:42 AM PST

The auction for Weather Channel hasn’t gone very smoothly, and now one of the major suitors left in the field, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), withdrew its bid to buy it,…

So, Microsoft Buys AOL Now? - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 13 Jun 2008 10:05 AM PST

It’s probably just pure fantasy, but maybe the Yahoo-Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) story is actually over this time (knock on wood). If so it means that the end result of Microsoft’s…

WBTVG Inks Syndication Deals With Joost, TiVo, Veoh, Others - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 12 Jun 2008 09:00 AM PST

Now that its online programming is ready to go, Warner Brothers Television Group has lined up a roster of distribution partners: Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and Veoh…

Will Lyne Be Part of Succesion Planning At Time Inc? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 08:32 AM PST

The speculation machine has gone into overdrive now, as Susan Lyne exits Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO). According to NYP, Lyne is supposed to have lunch next week with…

HBO Buying Small Stake in FunnyOrDie; Less Than 10 Percent - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jun 2008 09:06 PM PST

HBO, which couldn’t make its own comedy site work, is taking a small stake in Will Ferrell’s comedy company FunnyorDie.com. The terms were not disclosed, but the Variety story says…

Time Warner CEO Bewkes: News Corp.-MySpace Looked Dubious At First, Too - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 09 Jun 2008 10:53 AM PST

Looks like Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes might be answering questions about the Bebo deal for awhile. He’s already admitted that the company might have overpaid for the…

Interview: Brendan Condon, International Head, AOL’s Platform-A: Open To More Acquisitions - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 06 Jun 2008 10:07 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) aims to complete the global integration of its Platform-A ad network components by end of 2009, following today’s announcement it is taking the consortium to Europe. And…

AOL’s Platform-A Lands In Europe - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 06 Jun 2008 05:17 AM PST

Having recently completed its purchase of UK social net Bebo, AOL (NYSE: TWX) is finally ready to bring Platform-A, its collection of ad units, to Europe. Time Warner vet Brendan…

MMO Developer Turbine Raises $40 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jun 2008 07:20 AM PST

We mentioned a part of this raise in April...now it is complete: Turbine, a developer of MMO games has received $40 million third round funding. Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and…

@ EconAds: Making Platform-A Pay Off; Ad Net Debate Over ‘Pork Bellies’ Is False - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 03 Jun 2008 10:35 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) completed a spate of acquisitions over the past year. Getting it all together is the main job now. The question of “how” was put to Lynda Clarizio,…

Industry Moves: So Much For Start-Ups: TACODA Founder Morgan Joins The Tennis Company As Chairman - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 02 Jun 2008 08:24 PM PST

So much for heading right back to the start-up world… Digital ad vet Dave Morgan, who said he has left his AOL (NYSE: TWX) post of EVP-global advertising strategy to…

Time Warner Starts Comsumption Pricing Trial; Will Charge Overage Fees - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 02 Jun 2008 04:18 PM PST

You hear about overage fees being charged when wireless subscribers exceed the number of minutes allowed during any given month, but now there’s an equivalent for the internet. We reported…

Turner’s Ad Net Strategy: No To ‘Pork Bellies,’ Yes To Premium - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 02 Jun 2008 06:11 AM PST

Turner appears to be heeding the warning Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia’s (NYSE: MSO) Wenda Harris Millard gave to major web publishers this past spring: don’t sell all your ad inventory…

Industry Moves: More AOL Talent Bleed: Gambino Leaving Bebo After AOL Buy - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 30 May 2008 04:47 PM PST

Angel Gambino, the UK-based head of music for social network Bebo, now owned by AOL (NYSE: TWX), is leaving the company, reports News.com, and she confirmed to me in an…

Pass Out The Cigars, People.com Buys CelebrityBabyBlog - 5 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 30 May 2008 11:07 AM PST

Apparently SheKnows hasn’t bought every site covering the offspring of the rich and famous.... Time Inc.’s People.com has dove into the acquisition baby boom over stars’ spawn sites by buying…

Time Warner CEO Bewkes: On Bebo: ‘We May Have Overpaid’; Still Splitting Off AOL Access - 2 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 30 May 2008 08:28 AM PST

Questions about AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) purchase of Bebo continue to persist and Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes acknowledged that the company “may have overpaid” when shelling out $850 million for…