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Photo Jim Bankoff, chief executive of Vox Media, in the Washington office. The company plans a media brand devoted to digital technology and delivered primarily on Facebook. Credit Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York Times Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites;…
The Verge’s new Circuit Breaker AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 On Monday, Vox Media tech and culture site The Verge announced the introduction of a gadget blog called Circuit Breaker, which the company said will be “dedicated to the resurgence of consumer gadgets in new categories like VR, drones, and the internet of things.”…
The most striking gap in Amazon’s same-day service is in Boston, where three ZIP codes encompassing the primarily black neighborhood of Roxbury are excluded from same-day service, while the neighborhoods that surround it on all sides are eligible. “Being singled out like that and not getting those same services as they do in a 15-minute…
It turns out that spontaneous-seeming conversations between brands on social media are often anything but. When Savannah Peterson, founder of digital strategy group Savvy Millennial, creates a piece of content for her clients, she often sends a “Check it out” message to her friends — who are social media managers at other brands and agencies. Then the squad…
For a glimpse into just how precise Facebook ad targeting is getting, look to Washington, D.C. Specifically look to 1849 C Street, N.W., a few blocks from the White House, where you’ll find the headquarters for the Department of the Interior, the federal agency tasked with managing national parks, federal land and natural resources. Alaska…
When Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp expressed frustration with his company’s performance on Apple News last week, his complaints apparently were just the tip of the iceberg. Other publishing execs are unhappy about everything from the traffic they’re getting from the two-month-old news aggregation app to the user experience to the data Apple’s giving them….
Publishers, especially B2B publishers, find that reaching readers via the new digital platforms is too much of a crapshoot to be a sustainable business model for them to investment in There is no shortage of digital distribution platforms that want content from publishers. Whether it is Facebook’s Instant Articles or Apple News, Flipboard or the digital…
Last week, Facebook opened its Instant Articles format to all publishers. Using Instant Articles, they can now show readers using Facebook mobile a fast-loading version of their posts, while still also displaying some of their ads and measuring pageviews. Previously, Instant Articles was only available to a select number of official publisher partners. “Only now Instant…
The mobile web is getting faster thanks to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages scheme, and it’s about to get faster still. AMP articles now appears within Google News, giving media companies another high-traffic channel for speedier content delivery. But publisher complaints about slow loading ads have yet to be resolved. Legacy publishers like The Washington Post, The New York Times…
As part of the landmark $100 million settlement agreed to last night, Uber says drivers will now be allowed to ask for tips. Which means everyone, even you, will now have to tip their drivers. Forever. Probably in cash, since there’s no way to do it in the app. extended entry your rating as a rider…