• Leading Media Companies Expand Roles and Capabilities, Meeting Marketers’ Ever-Growing Digital Needs, Says Joint IAB/Booz Allen Hamilton Study

  The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced that new research encompassing more than 100 of its members demonstrates that the strategies, investments and capabilities required to succeed in digital media have shifted dramatically. Media compa

  (tags: advertising mediabusiness)

• Social Media: ‘Agencies Don’t Get It,’ Survey Says

  “I think traditional ad agencies have very little contribution to make,” Bryan Simkins, a marketing specialist at FedEx, told TNS. “They are mostly driven by their compensation models which are made for closed media. Those models don’t apply in open media

  (tags: agencies advertising socialmedia)

• MediaPost Publications - GroupM Restructures Search, Integrates 24/7 Real Media’s Decide DNA - 02/15/2008

  “We intend to have one GroupM way of attacking the problems of search –including staff development,” Norman told Online Media Daily. “With unified tools and training, we can optimize both the quality and the amount of time spent on search campaigns, and

  (tags: sem agencies)

• The Rise of the ‘Citizen Paparazzi’ - WSJ.com

  (tags: journalism)

• Link Journalism: Is Linking to News a form of Journalism? - ReadWriteWeb

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• Stop Press 2: Hitwise Data Shows Google News UK Unbiased - Search Engine Watch

  Google News UK is sorting stories “without fear or favor.” It is so unbiased that it is even sending traffic to its competitors. Or, to borrow a line from the BBC charter, Google News UK is “free from both political and commercial influence” and answers o

  (tags: googlenews)

• Conversation Agent: Print is Far from Dead - Can New Media Rise to That Level?

  This year’s winners are: * Akzia, bi-weekly from Moscow, with a circulation of 200,000
  * Expresso, a weekly news from Portugal, circulation 140,000
  * Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, a weekly Sunday paper from Germany, circulation 320,

  (tags: newspapers design)

• Interview: Chris Johnson, VP, Hearst Digital: Pinning Its Digital Strategy On Portals | paidContent.org

  , Hearst has been heavily focused on refining its online strategy for the past year. After a good deal of experimentation, the company has hit on a basic formula that will guide it for at least the next year: closer ties with portals.

  (tags: magazines hearst)

• Johnston Earnings Preview: No Digital Relaunch; Online Acquisitions Unlikely | paidContent:UK

  ”We’re not preparing a digital relaunch in any way. We have a continually evolving web offering but it isn’t being relaunched; that’s completely fallacious … hopelessly wrong.”

  (tags: newspapers)

• WPP bullish after healthy 2007 figures

  (tags: advertising wpp)

• A VC: Conviction and Discipline

  I ran into an old friend last night and we got to talking about the traits of a great investor. He said he thought the number one trait of great investors is discipline. I agreed that was key. But I added that conviction was also critical.

  (tags: vc)

• What We Look For Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing

  The following five posts guide our thinking as we navigate our investment environment

  (tags: vcs)

• Matt McAlister » Local news is going the wrong way

  Google’s new Local News offering misses the point entirely.

  (tags: local googlenews)

• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Distinction Between Bloggers, Journalists Blurring More Than Ever | PBS

  The time-worn debate of Bloggers vs. Journalists has finally run its course

  (tags: blogging journalism)

• Exclusive Interview: Stephen Covey on His Morning Routine, Blogs, Technology, GTD and The Secret | Zen Habits

  It’s such a thrill to share with you this interview with one of my heroes, author Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame.

  (tags: gtd organising)

• Micro Persuasion: Comparing SMM SEO and PR Tactics is Pure Poppycock

  Call me an optimist, but in 2008 most in the PR business take a clean approach to social media. A key reason is that when our clients engage, their participation needs to be transparent for it to be credible.

  (tags: pr socialmedia)

• Newspaper Web Sites Growing? Sure. But Papers Still Screwed. - Silicon Alley Insider

  Consumer research firm Scarborough released some vague data Wednesday that purports to show an encouraging trend for newspapers: Namely, more people are reading newspapers online.

  (tags: newspapers)

..but I could just about run to the £7.99 for Yael Naim’s eponymous album [iTunes] that features the soundtrack to the ad. And it’s really rather lovely, makes a change from Adele, Duffy etc. Thoroughly recommended.

• Why It’s Good News If Google Is Vulnerable To A Recession

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• Social Media: Slipping into irrelevance

  The decline of America’s major newspapers continues apace. The latest evidence came today: It was the first weekday I can remember (perhaps in decades) that the San Jose Mercury News ran no op-ed page. Instead, it was chock-a-block with ads.

  (tags: newspapers)

• PCC faces up to Facebook ‘intrusions’ | Greenslade | Guardian Unlimited

  The Press Complaints Commission has commissioned research into the newspapers’ use of material from social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

  (tags: facebook)

• @ Digital Music Forum: Keynote Interview, Thomas Hesse, Digital Pres. SonyBMG; Physical Not Dead | paidContent.org
  Hesse, who still has a mandate to sell CDs, offered a more nuanced view on the interplay between physical and digital distribution
  (tags: music)
• BBC iPlayer leaves ITV trailing | Media | guardian.co.uk
  (tags: video bbc itv)
• Google News Blog: Clarifications on local - for news readers and publishers
  (tags: googlenews local)
• Demystifying “Above the Fold”
  n the beginning days of the web, we thought we had to fit all the content on 1 page, all above the fold. The problem was everything got squished, ugly, and very hard to read. So instead of trying to get all content on 1 web page, people were smart enough
  (tags: advertising)
• I Switched Off Twitter and Doubled My Productivity
  in the last fortnight I’ve switched the mobile phone updates off and managed to cross far more off my to do list than I’d expected.
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• UK digital agency sector grows profits 56% - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic
  Profits at the 40 largest UK digital agencies have grown by more than 56% in the last year, but too many businesses are not maximising their profit potential, according to a new study.
  (tags: advertising agencies)