The Newsonomics of Google’s (Ad) Singularity

Add it up, and Google moves to its next stage. Paid search equals about half of digital advertising, and the Google absolutely dominates that business, with a still-astounding 82 percent market share. Since buying Doubleclick for a paltry $3.1 billion in 2007, it has moved to become the display ...

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“Smart” Slate: New Game, New Rules?

We could say that news companies -- from Slate to the Journal and Times -- have figured out that playing the ad game by someone else's rules didn't make a lot of sense. In the game of gross numbers, they couldn't win.

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Four Things About QuadrantONE

QuadrantONE moseyed out of the gate last week, after a few false starts. It got good ink because it offered good numbers: a potential of 50 million unique visitors waiting to be served in 27 of the top 30 markets. The new network will leverage sites owned by its four co-owners, Gannett, ...

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