The Newsonomics of Climbing the Ad Food Chain

Digital advertising is all about technology in 2013, and you’ll see lots of talk of the ad-tech stack, and who owns it. Google, of course, owns much of it, through its successive AdWords/Doubleclick/AdMob and more creations, acquisitions and integrations. Its stack is so efficient that many ...

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Gannett’s Whimper & Bang Show Strategies Plainly in Flux

So Gannett's decided that it's go-it-alone, devise-its own-local-marketing strategies approach didn't work.

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Yahoo’s Buy of Associated Content Makes It a Publisher, Syndicator, Wire, Ad Rep…and More

For Yahoo, I think, it's simple arithmetic. If you've figured out how to monetize content better than the other guys -- remember Yahoo Newspaper Consortium members say they can mark up $8 CPMs to $15 and beyond, courtesy of Yahoo's behavioral targeting technology -- why not do it against ...

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Without Online Classifieds, Online Ad Spending Was UP in 2009

In fact, if you parse the numbers, overall ad spend in the U.S. would have been up in 2009 – a year wracked by near Depression that saw print and broadcast advertising drop by 20% and more. Online classifieds lost $920 million year over year; overall digital ad spend was down about $700 million.

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The Newsonomics of Online Ad Spending, and Its Costs

The problem is at least, in part, structural. The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) has estimated that it costs twice as much to manage the placement of digital ads as compared to print and broadcast.

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Advance Partnership Signals Greater Microsoft/Newspaper Connection

The main difference: Advance Internet is maintaining its own ad platform, currently powered by 24/7 RealMedia, and integrating with Microsoft. Yahoo Newspaper Consortium members have fully adopted the Yahoo APT platform for their ad serving businesses, creating a closer, more exclusive ...

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Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Leaves Newspapers on Sidelines

Search advertising does have an impact on newspaper companies. Most consortium members take Yahoo search and paid search, both services that would be replaced by Microsoft's new Bing and related products. The newspapers' paid search deal with Yahoo has provided a steady, if small, revenue ...

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5000 New Competitors Just Landed in Newspaper Markets

Once ATT sales reps got up to speed (and that's certainly an intriguing question, given the newspaper company implementation experience), they'll be competing head-on with newspaper reps. Open up the Yellow Pages, and browse through furniture dealers, appliance sellers, home services of all ...

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Coming: The Newspaper Recovery Classified Stimulus Act of 2009

It's coming in the largest stimulus package in US history. $100 billion, are you kidding? $300 billion? How about $500 or $700 billion? That stimulus, combined with other economic recovery programs, gives newspaper companies a new shot at getting some growth in 2009. We could even think of it ...

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Gannett: See You in January

I'm assuming Gannett, good operator that it is, real does have a handle on how much of its business is really digital and how much legacy, print or broadcast. But I'm not sure. In addition, it's clear that many newspaper companies as they bundle, unbundle and re-bundle legacy and digital ...

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