What you need to know about social media: Social media is dead. It‚Äôs a boom time for social media. Online ads rule. Online ads don‚Äôt work. Twitter is hot. Twitter is pass√©. Marketers peddling media properties find the confusing and…
Prestigious Honors Laud Cross-Section of TV Fare, From ‘Lost’ to Olympics to ‘SNL’
With titles like “Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters to Realize How Empty Their Lives Are” and “Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard,” the Onion News Network is racking up—and cracking up—large audiences for its online videos, and has…
Long known as “the Gray Lady” for its staid appearance and style, the New York Times was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography. Now, the Web site of the nation’s newspaper of record is a leader in…
In just four years since its founding, YouTube has grown into the world’s most popular video-sharing site. Its emergence as a valuable communications channel has earned a Peabody Award for what the Peabody board called “embodying and promoting democracy.” True…
MSNBC.com and Zumobi are launching an iPhone and iPod touch application for “The Rachel Maddow Show.” The free application will give consumers access to photos and video from segments such as “Ms. Information” and “Rachel Re:,” as well as Ms….
Starting May 26, SundanceChannel.com will debut 10 profiles of people involved in transforming the High Line abandoned railroad tracks into a New York City park, Multichannel News says. The episodes will be used later as interstitial programming on Sundance Channel,…
Executives at Hulu think Nielsen is undercounting the number of people who visit the Web video site, the New York Times reports. While Nielsen says Hulu had 8.9 million visitors in March, comScore puts the figure at 42 million, the…
Sony CEO Howard Stringer is facing increased pressure as the company said it expects its annual loss to swell to $1.26 billion this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Stringer has the company cutting costs while searching for cool networked…
Oprah Winfrey has quickly reached 1 million Twitter followers, Advertising Age reports. Winfrey is not consumed by tweeting, and often skips posting an update for days, even failing to remark on hitting the 1 million mark, the trade magazine says….