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Amazon has posted an aggressive response to the “everyone at Amazon is miserable but also paid well but also crying all the time” story in the New York Times. That story was published 64 days ago, which, according to my proprietary productivity algorithm, works out to about 21 words per day. This will presumably be…
Start Article Post Content Few would doubt Lena Dunham has many awards coming her way as her career unfolds, from the Emmys she’s bound to receive to the Oscars to which she probably aspires. But given her recent foray into digital publishing, could the Pulitzer Prize be what she’s really after? Dunham seems to be…
Apple’s war on online ads continues. First it was Tim Cook taking shots at ad-based companies like Google, whose business relies on ad-targeting consumers. Then, it was Apple making it easier for people to block mobile ads on iOS9 while using the Safari browser. Advertisement Now comes the latest salvo: When users tap on an ad in…
Facebook on Tuesday announced that its Instant Articles program, which debuted after much speculation earlier this year, is launching on mobile devices. Starting today, Facebook users will see “thousands of new articles” published through the service every day, per Facebook’s announcement. Facebook also listed dozens of news outlets that will publish on Instant Articles in…
A version of this story first appeared in the Oct. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The central media currency is not audience, but trustworthy measurement. The television business was built on wide adoption of such a single standard. Nielsen’s sampling method determined the size…
The Nielsen company has sued radio host Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, claiming the DJ paid a radio listener who was participating in a radio survey to inflate his show’s ratings. Among the allegations in the federal lawsuit filed Thursday: fraud; conspiracy to defraud; violating the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Practices Act; and interfering with…
During the summer of 2014, as the Black Lives Matter movement flared amid a spate of questionable police killings, the little known hashtag #every28hours began appearing with increasing frequency on social media. The hashtag is shorthand for the statistic, drawn from a 2013 report by the black activist group Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, that an…
Photo Evan Ratliff, near his offices in Brooklyn, runs The Atavist Magazine, which last month shut off its app and decided to publish only on the web. Credit Benjamin Norman for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the…
(Reuters/Tim Wimborne) As countless iPhone users have flocked to ad-blocking technology to try to escape from slow-loading, insecure online advertisements, a top trade group for advertisers is apologizing for having “messed up” the Web. The systems that allowed marketers to track and target advertisements “have slowed down the public internet and drained more than a…
The Huffington Post has seen a major decline in its monthly traffic coming from within the U.S. over the past year, while competitors such as BuzzFeed and Vice Media continue to grow, according to data provided by comScore to International Business Times. In September of last year, HuffPost pulled in around 113 million unique visitors…