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80% The percentage of U.S. cell phone users still -- how can it be ?!? -- not using a smartphone. That's a big market for lots of people, including news companies.
March 29, 2024
80% The percentage of U.S. cell phone users still -- how can it be ?!? -- not using a smartphone. That's a big market for lots of people, including news companies.
AOL, business model, Dave Hunke, digital revenue, Patch, print, SeattlePI.com, USA Today, Warren Webster
Today's announcement that the USA Today is falling on its own grenade, blowing itself up, taking casualties (130 layoffs) and taking an increasingly familiar digital-first, print-last path makes historic sense.
News Corp.'s Avatar has taken in $2.75 billion. Compare that financial flexibility with the Times, and it’s night and day. The Times Co.’s total 2009 revenues: $2.4 billion, less than Avatar itself has produced.
Why it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million. 2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world. 3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape. 4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
So who's the ad competition? Maybe we should ask, who isn't? ...The question, here, is one of sustainability. Certainly, there's the question whether Patch can sustain itself, as its parent AOL struggles to find a new identity and growing ...
So Gannett's decided that it's go-it-alone, devise-its own-local-marketing strategies approach didn't work.
Are there any positive growth numbers to report? Which categories may be turning positive — maybe national or retail display ads — as the sagging economy continues to plague the traditional classified strengths of auto, recruitment, and real estate?
$1.96 billion: Google’s 1Q, 2010 profits, with $6.8 billion in revenue. Gannett -- largest news company in the US and second worldwide – reported total revenue of $1.32 billion, and profits of only $119 million in 1Q. Those are measures of how ...
"Each Starbucks location buys 10+ iPads. Then they rent them out to us - their consumers - by the hour.... by allowing us to access an iPad, we can then look through any and all newspaper(s) we'd like".