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http://econsultancy.com/blog/9615-ibm-identifies-four-digital-personalities-to-help-segment-media-audiences IBM has identified four new types of digital consumers that media providers should target to improve digital revenue streams. The ‘Beyond Digital’ report states that the new behaviours of connected customers - which include social viewing, distracted viewing and digesting on-demand content – have greatly impacted media providers. It suggests that content cannibalisation is reducing demand for certain types of content and “digital revenue streams have proven weaker than traditional revenue streams as consumer expectations move from content ownership models to content accessibility models.”

IBM identifies four 'digital personalities' to help segment media audiences | Econsultancy

The Sun pushes in-game advertising with Facebook game | News | New Media Age

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MCLEAN, Va. - News-hungry travelers this summer will start noticing a new perk in Hilton hotels when they use their laptop, iPad or other devices to go online.

Hilton, USA TODAY give guests new content choices

http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2012/05/usa-today-hilton-worldwide-deal-online-portal/684741/1

Why investors bought 71 US newspapers last year | Media | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/31/us-press-publishing-mediabusiness There is still a newspaper publishing market in the United States. Seventy-one of the country's daily newspapers changed hands last year in deals totalling just under $800m (£509m). Why?
http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/26/journalism/ Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology companies reject suggestions they are now news organisations. But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next… First, the disclosures: “We’re not a news company,” Google’s head of news products and Google+ programming Richard Gingras told media executives at the Paley Center’s international council of media executives in Madrid on Thursday.

How tech’s giants want to re-invent journalism — paidContent

http://www.nextlevelofnews.com/2012/01/the-future-of-the-book-is-the-stream-no-longer-sold-by-title-but-by-time.html

The Future of the book is the stream: no longer sold by title, but by time - :: Future of Journalism

The Atlantic :: Cloud storage is paving the way for books that are sold not by title, but by time.

How the Huffington Post became a new-media behemoth — Tech News and Analysis

In a blog post at her eponymous website, Arianna Huffington has provided some numbers that describe the growth of the news network over the past year — a year that coincided with its acquisition by AOL for $315 million — and more than a few of them are eye-popping. http://gigaom.com/2012/02/02/how-the-huffington-post-became-a-new-media-behemoth/

Arianna Huffington: "Wir sind sehr opportunistisch" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Netzwelt

Die "Huffington Post" ist gerade in Frankreich gestartet, dann kommen Spanien, Italien, danach Deutschland. Kritiker werfen der Web-Zeitung Billigjournalismus vor - aber das ist Polemik, widerspricht Gründerin Arianna Huffington. Man habe lediglich das Netz verstanden. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,811855,00.html
The New York Times just reported its fourth-quarter results to finish out 2011. And it's still shrinking.

The Incredible Shrinking New York Times

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-shrinks-2012-2

Spool Lets You Save Articles And Videos For Personal Offline Use - 10,000 Words

There are a host of tools out there that allow you to save articles of interest to read at a later time, but Spool takes a different approach. The San Francisco based startup, which just secured $1 million in funding, focuses primarily on offline content consumption, with a strong emphasis on the belief that users should be allowed to save personal copies of web pages and videos for private use. According to AllThingsD, Spool “isn’t just a storage service. http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/spool-lets-you-save-articles-and-videos-for-personal-offline-use_b9708

Can newspapers also be tech incubators? — Tech News and Analysis

We’ve written before about the need for newspapers to be “digital first” and to think like startups as they try to adapt to the evolution of the media industry. Can a traditional newspaper take an even bigger step and actually help give birth to new technologies or services by acting like a startup incubator? At least two of them are planning to give it a try: the Philadelphia News Network just launched an incubator, and Digital First Media recently launched a venture-capital arm and says it plans to invest in tech startups.
Seth Godin: There’s a huge sucking sound, and that’s the erosion of mass as part of the media model.

Seth's Blog: The erosion in the paid media pyramid

The paradox continues. Newspaper readership continues to run at all-time highs as the business model crumbles. From a Newspaper Association of America press release issued today:

Traffic to Newspaper Websites Continues to Surge | Newspaper Death Watch

One maxim has obsessed the world of media and marketing for decades.

m.guardian.co.uk

Gannett, Hearst, Others Partner on Shopping Site - 2011-11-17 15:59:50 | Broadcasting & Cable

By Michael Malone -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/17/2011 10:59:50 AM
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