Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Publishers have flirted with micropayments as a revenue stream for years, mostly unsuccessfully. Now, with the continued rise of ad blocking, new hope again is pinned on pay-per-article schemes for ad-blocking readers. Fat chance. German publisher Gruner + Jahr, which publishes 285 magazines and newspapers across 22 countries, serves messages to ad-blocking visitors to its site Geo.de, requiring…
Investors have been fretting about Viacom Inc.’s cable TV fortunes and hoping the company will cook up new ways to profit in the digital economy. On Tuesday, as the media company reports quarterly results, it will have a new partnership to tout on that front. The shiny new object: a deal with Snapchat Inc., the…
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 For some publishers, such as The New York Times, metered paywalls have provided a much-needed revenue stream by converting free, loyal readers into paying digital subscribers. But Newsweek is going in the other direction, opting to drop its paywall Wednesday morning. “The general strategy is to open up and…
Airbnb’s efforts to become an “open and transparent” company might not quite line up with traditional definitions of transparency. A report released Wednesday suggests that Airbnb manipulated listing data in New York City prior to publicly releasing that data to regulators in December, in an effort to quell concerns that the platform was enabling professional…
Among the takeaways from Timothy Geithner’s 2014 memoir “Stress Test” is his contention that the financial system is safer and more stable today. And central to that improvement are the stiffer capital requirements, buffers of liquid assets for financial institutions so they can absorb their own losses. With stronger capital standards, banks must “hold more…
Presidential candidate and professional evader Hillary Clinton has truly perfected the smile-and-turn, a political maneuver often used, but seldom captured on tape. Finally, here we have it: rare footage of Clinton in her natural habitat. In 2013, Politico reported that Clinton had been paid to speak to a group of Goldman Sachs employees, and, according…
“Push button. Get Mortgage.” That’s the tagline of Quicken Loans’ new product, Rocket Mortgage. The company introduced Rocket Mortgage to the massive television audience watching Super Bowl 50 in a one-minute commercial. The ad describes a simple push button app that allows people to get mortgages on their phones, which would lead to a “tidal…
cache hit 500:single/related:ee9a377d23910d5c96a7168043ad3e87 empty On the Adwords Google+ page, Google just announced a timeline for banishing Flash from its advertising network, announcing that “Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are now going 100% HTML5.” Starting on June 30, 2016, Google will no longer accept new Flash display ads from advertisers. On January 2, 2017, even old Flash ads…
Feb. 2, 2016 3:35 p.m. ET On the morning of Jan. 29, 2014, “hyperlocal” online media service Patch employed nearly 540 people. The following day, just 98 remained. Turnaround specialist Hale Global had purchased a majority stake in Patch from AOL, and initiated what it called a “hard reset,” which included hundreds of layoffs.The plan…
The clothing company Nasty Gal, which is either an inspiring story of #girlboss entrepreneurdom or a really hellish place to work, depending on who you ask, is laying off employees today. Women’s Wear Daily reports that 19 people were laid off, or about ten percent of the staff; a source at the company tells Jezebel…