Let’s face it this holiday season is a pivotal one for all of us from a macro point of view. While many retailers will be focused on their individual bottom lines it will be important to look at how this whole ‘first weekend’ of the holiday shopping season plays out from start to finish with [...]
The newspaper industry is still struggling to figure out what it will be when it grows up. Ad revenue is in the toilet and the news acquisition habits of people, even those who have traditionally turned to newspapers for news, has moved online at an increasing rate. We all know that in order to survive [...]
Today’s Wall Street Journal is reporting more potential concerns for the newspaper industry as Boston Globe’s owner, the New York Times Co. threatens to shutter the paper unless unions give more concessions. This comes after 500 jobs have already been shed since 200.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Rocky Mountain News have been two of the higher [...]
Most objections to the Google/Yahoo ad deal tend to focus on the potential for an increase in advertising rates–something I’m not convinced will happen. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) just lodged its objection with the US Department of Justice, and along with it some additional reasons why the deal could be bad for advertisers [...]
