How can photographers make money from display-ad growth?
Online advertising has been gaining market-share for years now. Unfortunately for stock photography companies marketing spend has been shiftng online, to search which is completely free of images. With marketing spend moving from high priced print to low priced online uses and search, creators of photography have struggled to keep revenues up. In a pay [...]
Deadline for comments on Google books settlement passes
It has been quiet around the Google Books copyright settlement. In November Photo associations were denied the right to intervene and in the same month Google was forced to adapt the settlement. The deadline for new comments on the settlement passed at the end of last week. During this relative silence around new developments and changes it appears that [...]
Rupert Murdoch puts his money where his mouth is
After spending most of 2009 attacking blogs, online magazines and even Google for publishing content without paying for it Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Newscorp has made a small move in raising paywalls for content. One of the smallest newspapers owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation has started charging readers for online material.The Standard-Times of New [...]
Movie industry sees record visitors
Media usage going online is often named as a significant reason for the decline of the ‘old’ media. While piracy and online movie viewing may be considered a problem by movie industry executives it does not seem to hurt sales,. Cinema admissions in the first 11 months of the year have been the highest since [...]
Vimeo sued by EMI over music in video’s
Vimeo is being sued by music company EMI over songs used as backing for video’s that are posted on the site. EMI’s actual concern is with all the full-song verbatim audio available on Vimeo.It wants Vimeo to properly license the tracks that are used in this fashion. EMI isn’t going after mash-ups, and is careful to [...]
NewsNow pulls links from paid service
In the debate about paid content and the role of content aggregators Newsnow has been forced to remove content linking to UK newspaper content. This comes after a dispute with the Newspaper licensing agency. The links will remain available on NewsNow’s aggregation website, but won’t be included any more in their paid-for subscription service. NewsNow [...]
Five Partners working together to charge for online content
After long talks about monetizing online content companies are starting to make moves to collaborate on developing the appropriate combination of charging mechanisms. Paidcontent reports that: “A much-discussed magazine consortium will be announced early next week (it looks like Tuesday at this point) with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). joining Conde Nast, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), Hearst [...]
Not a cat in hell’s chance on charging for online content
The CEO of Future Group Stevie Spring does not agree that raising paywalls for general online content has a future. In fact, she used some pretty strong words to describe this possibility. This contrasts with a growing number of companies experimenting with paywalls. “If you can get it free and it’s as good as a [...]
Huffington post owner strikes out at old media
Arianna Huffington is the founder of the Huffington Post, the news site with over 22 million unique visitors every month. She spoke out against traditional media companies (led by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp) and their inability to adapt to deal with the new way media are shared online. She does not believe Newscorp will take their [...]
Hot debate: Microsoft and publishers versus Google
The debate about paid newscontent is coming to a head. Important decissions will be made over the coming months that may have a deep and lasting impact on the Media companies that make them. Microsoft is known to make it difficult for competitors to be successful in similar markets. Earlier we reported on talks between [...]
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