Nine Questions: Savior Bezos, Chronicle Debacle, Patch Undone, the Long Beach Lunge & More

• Ken Doctor

• 9 Questions - Ads & Commerce - Asia and Australia - Best Practices - Dailies - Europe - Freedom Comm. - More Ken Doctor Posts - New York Times - News Corp/Wall Street Journal - News Tech - Orange County Register - The Digital Dozen - The New News - Washington Post

• August 19, 2013

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Is reader revenue one of the answers to the next stage of hyperlocal? The halving of Patch ("The newsonomics of Patch's unraveling", today at the Nieman Journalism Lab) is just another curve on the long road to marry local news and digital. Like Backfence and many newspaper forays, it has found ...

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Google’s Snip Machine Makes Local Sites Snippy

• Ken Doctor

• Ads & Commerce - Dailies - GAFA - Google - Mobile, Smartphone & Tablet - Uncategorized

• April 13, 2010

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Is the FTC looking at the trinity of Google's ad play: Paid Search (AdWords) + Online Display (DoubleClick, acquired in 2007) + Mobile (Ad Mob, acquired in November)....Digital media aren't bought silo by silo; they are bought to reach a set of would-be customers, across platforms and ad type.

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