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Monthly Archives : January 2008

Bravo Renews Griffin’s ‘D-List’

Bravo is renewing “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” for a fourth season. The series is set to return later this year. “Kathy has a brilliant ability to capture the pulse of pop culture with her devastatingly entertaining commentary,”…

YuMe to Power Ads on NBC Direct

NBC will rely on broadband video advertising network YuMe Networks to power the ads NBC delivers for its online download service NBC Direct, the companies announced today. Under the deal, YuMe will provide ad management, campaign management, trafficking and reporting…

Obama Is First Democratic Candidate to Advertise Nationally

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is launching the first national advertising of the Democratic presidential campaign—a cable buy on CNN and MSNBC of a biographical spot—and he’s immediately getting ripped by rival Sen. Hillary Clinton for the purchase. The Clinton campaign…

WGA Strike News Roundup: Monday, Jan. 21

Writers, Studios to Start Talking? After last week’s deal between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers produced an agreement on how to split revenue from digital video, Daily Variety is reporting that…

YouTube Sees Second Straight Weekly Traffic Dip

YouTube’s traffic dipped for the second week in a row, with the world’s biggest video-sharing site reporting 29.7 million unique users for the week of Jan. 13, according to Nielsen Online. That’s down from 30.7 million for the week ending…

Fox Seizes Top Spot in Ratings

Liguori: ‘A Triumph of Scheduling’

Web Talent Tests Ads

Video Creators Seek Bigger Share of Revenue

Olympic Gold for NBCU

Record $1.1 Billion in Ad Sales Expected

2007 12 to Watch: Where Are They Now?

Peter Chernin The writers strike that loomed for months before becoming reality Nov. 5 was perhaps the most pressing new item of business to land on News Corp. President-Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin’s plate last year. Otherwise, 2007 was an…

12 to Watch: Lauren Zalaznick

Lauren Zalaznick, president of Bravo Media, decided to stay in town over the holidays. She was moving from one apartment to another and recently sold a weekend house. “We have two houses’ worth of contents that need to get organized…