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Crazed Numa Fan “Discovered” By Mainstream Producer
Podcasting News reports that vlogger, Brooke “Brookers” Brodack, has been picked up by Carson Daly Productions for an 18-month talent and development deal. “Several things immediately caught my eye watching her videos,” Daly said. “She’s got a fresh point of view, considerable directing skills and a great sense of music and how to use it. There is potential for Webisodes, mobile series and definitely a great TV show …
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High Speed Internet Replaces Good Schools As Neighborhood Criteria
And now from our economic development section...USA TODAY examines at the affect broadband could have on residents of Berry, a small town in northeast Kentucky with a population of 310. "We had people come in and want to buy a house just outside city limits, but when they found out we don't have high-speed DSL, they said, 'No, We can't live here,' " Berry Mayor Donald Adams says. Across the USA, just 35% of adults in …
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Brave Enough To Share
Screen Magazine, in a profile of the nation's largest independent agency, reveals one of the shop's secrets for success. The Richards Group has a unique method of organizing its different departments – it doesn’t. “Everybody’s thrown in together,” says David Hall, agency principal, noting that employees are not able to segregate themselves by job title. “That helps because we all overhear what everyone else does …
New Media Kingpin Makes Old Media Moves
"The barrier to entry in Internet media is low. The barrier to success is high," Nick Denton told the New York Times for an article detailing several staffing changes at Gawker Media. "Sites need to be well-managed and well-designed and even then it is harder and harder to launch a site. The world does not need more blogs," adding that if you count all the pages on MySpace, "there is approximately one reader for …
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Etch-A-Sketch Mastery
One of the trickier negotiations at a busy American airport can be identifying one's PowerBook at the gathering end of the security checkpoint. I put stickers on mine to make the process easier. But Dan Kurtz has a much more elegant solution. …
Sex Sells (No Matter How Offensive The Come On)
When moving unwanted email to my spam box, I often ask myself who clicks on this shit, because someone obviously does, or it would not keep coming. New York Times has the answer: Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam. The third most successful variety is spam …
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Barrie Inc. Coming Soon
Bob Barrie is leaving Fallon to form his own firm. He chose not to to give Adweek many details, but indicated the move is not iminent, and that his head and his heart are still at Fallon, an agency he's been with for 20 years. Barrie, an art director, is notable in the industry for not taking on creative director duties despite offers to do so. Instead he's stayed true to his passion and close to the work. The …
