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Are you paying to read a digital version of The New York Times? According to The Wall Street Journal, the Times new pay wall is no hurdle for over a quarter million readers. On Thursday, Times Co. said it had about 224,000 paid subscribers to its recently launched digital products as of the end of the second quarter, plus another 57,000 subscribers for its replica editions on e-readers like the Kindle. …
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Subaru has presence in a new reality series on Sundance Channel, which doesn't take traditional advertising. The series, which debuted last night, is called "Ludo Bites America" and stars Ludo and Krissy Lefebvre. Sundance said that "Ludo" dovetails with an adventurous Subaru brand as the eponymous chef leaves behind the traditional restaurant business and gambles on the road. Subaru also has a presence on …
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All's fair in love and aggregation. Uh, not exactly. Recently, Ad Age writer Simon Dumenco cried foul when he was over-aggregated by a HuffPo "writer," who has since been dismissed. Reflecting on the scene, Lewis DVorkin, Chief Product Officer of Forbes Media, offers a good explanation for value-added aggregation. ...the trick to rewarding aggregation for the consumer (and that’s what really matters …
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A bottle of Jack Daniels, a letterpress shop in Knoxville and a man on banjo all help to paint the brand red, white and blue in this new campaign from Arnold Worldwide’s Boston office. Of course, craft is a popular subject today. Brands from Levi's to Dodge are painting Made in America pictures that tug at whatever bit of national pride remains a population battered by a crap economy, corrupt politicians and a …
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Court Crandall's next film, a documentary about hope and community at Compton High School, is receiving massive press attention, largely do to an unscripted plot twist. At the center of the film is a free throw shooting contest, where the winner is awarded $40,000 in college tuition money. The contest, open to Compton High students with a 3.0 or better grade point average, was conducted and filmed last spring. …
Content marketing gets a lot of play in these pages. So much play, you've probably heard me use these words before: Every Company Is A Media Company. Sometimes the formula is expressed like this: EC=MC. There's a lot of meaning packed into that little formula--in fact, we could discuss said meaning for hours, preferably over coffee or beers. But for now, let's just look at one slice of the content marketing pie, …
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Lewis DVorkin of Forbes is excited about Storify, a new service that makes it easy for journalists and others to search, grab and assemble content snippets from the Cloud. [View the story "Social Startups Take It To The Bank In Series Of High Priced IPOs" on Storify] Storify's co-founder, Xavier Damman, says, “Smartphones and social networks are turning everyone into a reporter. But we are not all journalists. …
One of the things I find frustrating about the search for freemium offers that a small percentage of readers might buy is the fact that it fails to address the monetary value of a site's core offering. The main idea regarding Free as a business model, forwarded by Wired editor Chris Anderson and others, is that a site's core offering brings in the audience, and once the audience is established a small portion of …
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