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Fair Syndication Consortium Gets Its First Ad Network: AdBrite [
Exclusive AdBrite has joined the Fair Syndication Consortium , the Attributor-backed online publisher’s group recently founded to help companies track and monetize their content regardless of where it shows up on the web. SEE ALSO: Forget Fair Use, Pubs Want Ad Nets To Pay For ‘Fair Syndication’ Of Their Content | paidContent AdBrite is the first ad network to join the Consortium—and it’s a crucial first partnership—since working directly with the ad networks that are keeping content aggregators (and scrapers) afloat, is the cornerstone of the Consortium’s business model. Even with this milestone, though, the group still faces challenges, including defining what constitutes fair use vs. content aggregation and tracking specific ad impressions across multiple networks.
So, since the grand total is around $36B, Google news is pretty much a non revenue products, and Google was doing just fine with little or no news results in their main index until the last couple of years.
Hey Newspaper Guys: Google's Not Making Money From News | T
The number of paid subscriptions to digital editions of magazines has leapt since 2007, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations ( via MediaBuyerPlanner).
Paid Subscriptions to Digital Editions Rise - MarketingVOX
Is the PR Business Extinct? Yes
http://twitter.com/fuatkircaali The short answer is yes. In our estimation, roughly 70% of today's PR firms with their traditional public relations and communications business structures will not survive the fast-approaching social media avalanche. The remaining 30% that need to reinvent their position real fast in their newly morphed industry will prosper, compared to where they were and what they were doing before. For publicly traded companies, current rules dictate that information can be made public by a press release or by a telephone conference call but not simply on a website.