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CBS and upstart Web video aggregator Boxee have inked a deal to distribute individual CBS episodes to consumers, according to NYTimes.com.The deal is significant for Boxee, which has in the [...]

In recent years, AOL often touted the sophomoric male-targeted site Asylum and the edgy women-aimed Lemondrop as examples of the company's content-centric future. Both blended original content and aggregation from [...]

Is News Corp. looking to gut MySpace prior to a potential sale? That's a natural conclusion, given various reports that have surfaced, indicating MySpace is shortly planning to dismiss anywhere [...]

Demand Media's plans for an initial public offering are moving forward. The timing of the IPO, however, is being held up by looming questions about the company's accounting practices, according [...]

Freelance writers now have yet another means of making 15 bucks.According to Adage.com, IAC's Pronto group has rolled out a new venture called The Writers Network, which on its Web [...]

When bands break up, things often get ugly. Apparently, it's no different in the virtual band world.Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, founders of Harmonix--the company that developed the video game [...]

Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday (Dec. 15) a spate of new features and functions aimed at differentiating its fledgling search engine Bing from Google. The announcement includes more localized content and [...]

Score another victory for freelancers--though full-time journalists might have yet another reason to panic.Thomson Reuters has partnered with the fast-growing Examiner.com, one of a handful of media companies that employs [...]

In a world of iTunes and Pandora, MTV is looking to reestablish itself as the best destination for music lovers to discover new artists.The network on Tuesday (Dec. 14) will [...]

MSN has partnered with FremantleMedia, the U.K.-based production giant behind American Idol, to launch a new travel guide series re:discover--The Soul of Your Favorite Cities.The show, which will spotlight 12 [...]

The online advertising industry will see $230 million spent in 2011 just to make sure that campaigns run the way they are supposed to. But don't expect brands to foot [...]

The recession is starting to fade from memory, in the online ad world at least.Online advertising revenue will surge by 13.9 percent to $25.8 billion in 2010 in the U.S., [...]

Is social gaming giant Zynga ignoring the ad market at its own peril?Just as advertising demand for social games is poised to explode--eMarketer predicts spending will surge 33 percent in [...]

Youth is wasted on the young, except in the digital space, where you launch new media ventures, exploit bleeding-edge technologies and sometimes get bought by Google. Unlike traditional media where [...]

1. FACEBOOKThink back five years. If they had made a feature film then about a hot social networking site, it would have been MySpace. Instead, it's the founding story of [...]

Youth is wasted on the young, except in the digital space, where you launch new media ventures, exploit bleeding-edge technologies and sometimes get bought by Google. Unlike traditional media where [...]

1. FACEBOOKThink back five years. If they had made a feature film then about a hot social networking site, it would have been MySpace. Instead, it's the founding story of [...]

One of the more memorable moments from Advertising Week last month was when supermodel-turned-talk-show-host Tyra Banks decided to teach Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg how to 'smize.' Smize -- [...]

Demand Media has made a lot of noise over the past year with its publishing model: the company employs thousands of freelance journalists who produce thousands of search-friendly articles on [...]

Back in August 2006, The Oxford English Dictionary updated its definitive record of the language with a new entry, adding 'Google' as a verb, meaning to search the Internet. That [...]

MSNBC.com is looking to make its robust video library easier for users to share and spread across the Web.The company is set to unveil a new version of its embeddable [...]

Univision is the latest major media company to launch its own mini ad network. In this case, the company is looking to replicate the ad-network model in the less-cluttered Spanish-language [...]

Google has reached an agreement to purchase Teracent, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup whose technology platform promises to enable advertisers to adjust and customize online display ads on the fly.Terms [...]

A giant wolf and a slew of brooding, pale, chiseled-ab-boasting teenagers are set to take over MySpace.The News Corp.-owned social networking site is rolling out a new, highly intrusive home-page [...]

Digital media buyers may want to think twice about where they place online video ads -- as social networking and gaming sites don't measure up to content sites and e-mail [...]

Hulu is starting to show signs of why it's not easy to run a joint venture between competitors.Recently, the popular video site's various parents have sent mixed messages about Hulu's [...]

NBC Universal's iVillage, which is undergoing a site-wide transformation, has unveiled it's latest revamped channel: iVillage Food.The service-oriented section is geared for women seeking easy meal options and advice on [...]

Continental Airlines has signed a deal with Winstar Interactive Media to sell advertising on Continental's Web site. The move by Continental is noteworthy, given that many airline sites -- and [...]

As a lot of attention falls on high-end smartphones, LG is focusing where much of the volume is -- the middle of the market -- with a promotional plan that [...]

Pro wrestling legend Mick Foley better known as the leather masked 'Mankind' is discussing healthcare reform with Liz Peek, who pens the Wall Street Weekly column for the women's community [...]

Just days after it was hit with a lawsuit over competitive claims in a series of ads, Verizon Wireless is mincing no words in response.'This is a junk lawsuit. It [...]

ABC is introducing a new feature aimed at encouraging viewers who stream their favorite shows online to make the experience more social.This Saturday, the network will launch ABC Social: Episode [...]

AT&T filed a lawsuit this week against Verizon Wireless over its series of allegedly misleading ads carrying the tagline 'There's a map for that.'In those ads, two different maps of [...]

Microsoft's Web portal MSN today unveils its most significant redesign in a decade, as the company looks to increase engagement on the property while spurring usage of its fledgling Bing [...]

Vivek Shah, group president, digital at Time Inc., will leave the company at the end of this year.The 15-year Time veteran has not announced his next move, but insisted that [...]

Southern Comfort has tapped Break Media to produce Social Sportz Net, an eight-episode Web series aimed at associating the brand with holiday parties typically hosted and attended by young men.The [...]

The Nielsen Co. has joined forces with the Westminster, Colo.--based direct marketing firm DataLogix in a partnership that the research giant believes will go a long way toward fulfilling the [...]

Web content syndicator Studio One Networks has rolled out a new editorial offering -- Life & Beauty Weekly -- created specifically for Procter & Gamble.The new Life & Beauty content, [...]

Facebook is looking to make it easier for media companies and apps developers to track just how viral their content is on the social networking behemoth.Content sites across the Internet [...]

MySpace is planning several design and structural changes that will deemphasize the site's reliance on user-generated content and sanitize its notorious free-for-all look and feel. 'We have to clean up [...]

Outlandish boasts aside, Mark Zuckerberg is a pretty smart guy. Though the founder and CEO of Facebook lost a bit of credibility in 2008 when he foolishly declared his Beacon [...]

E-readers will save the publishing industry. E-readers will become the mobile equivalent to the eight track tape.The answer, of course, likely lies somewhere in between these two extremes. But if [...]

CNN.com on Monday unveils a major overhaul designed to make the site more visual, socially oriented and content rich. Using language such as 'reiminaging' 'beautiful' and 'visually arresting,' CNN.com svp [...]

NEW YORK -- Microsoft is looking to build an advantage over Google by beefing up its ability to search the real-time Web. But Google is fighting back.The company today announced [...]

NEW YORK -- The fast-growing teen community Web site Meez, which allows users to create avatars, play games and meet with friends, has integrated its fledgling virtual world Meez Nation [...]

NEW YORK -- Social media advertising has stumbled in its current form, and needs new choreography.That's the blunt message that media consultancy Media Link has for MySpace. Media Link has [...]

NEW YORK -- The broadcast networks are dialing up their collective presence on the iPhone.On Thursday, ABC launched a free application for its hit Dancing With the Stars, which fans [...]

NEW YORK -- Web users are far more willing to share personal information with marketers via e-mail than on social networking sites, according to new research commissioned by lead generation [...]

NEW YORK -- The online ad market is close to bottoming out, according to a new report issued by industry tracker eMarketer.The research firm, which amalgamates spending reports from multiple [...]

NEW YORK -- Microsoft claims it has developed a new line of mobile phones, which will satisfy both business-focused BlackBerry users and the entertainment/social media-oriented iPhone crowd.The company announced this [...]