Sentences with phrase «for old media»

These laws are being vociferously supported by lobbyists for old media — exactly the sort of media that has done such an abysmal job of informing the public about the climate debate.

The (Kindle) device, along with a gizmo being developed by Hearst Media for launch next year, are being held out as the last, best hope for old media.

It looks like LA Times is still beating that Oscar drum for the old media sect.

And for that I for one am glad — our democracy stands to benefit if we can find more ways for old media and new media cohabitate, especially at the local level.

This is a good selection, with broad support for both older media and today's fastest hardware — a fact that's sure to make MacBook owners jealous.

Not exact matches

For the likes of a Verizon or Comcast, buying Twitter provides an instant and massive new - media audience that allows an old - media company to go toe to toe with Facebook and Google, which have been steadily diverting advertising budgets.

Rasool is a 25 - year - old freelance journalist and also a student in international relations at a university in Istanbul, who has worked as a translator and fixer for VICE and other media outlets, including Al Jazeera and Associated Press.

For older applicants, this could be important if an employer fears that you have an aversion to social media and new tech tools.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

But while bleating smartphones and constantly chirping social media usually take the blame for derailing productivity, there is a second, perhaps even more insidious, low - tech impediment to actually getting work done: good old - fashioned meetings.

Snapchat has been pretty pleased by its four - month - old Discover channel, which has been yielding millions of daily views for its 11 partnering media companies.

«I actually just stepped away from my social media for the entire time I was competing,» the 22 - year - old says.

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Wild metrics for any company, but especially crazy when you consider the social media company is just over five years old.

Screenshots of the account shared on social media showed messages with racial slurs, a calendar invite for a «daily lynching» and old images of African - American lynchings.

I'm on record as predicting the iPad and other e-readers will benefit old - school publishers less than they would like, even as they create vast new opportunities for non-traditional media creators.

Willms ditched the old products, transformed from JustTHINK Media to Terra Marketing Group, and started running penny auctions, which allow people to bid on consumer goods, primarily electronics, for a fraction of retail prices after paying to join.

Twitter is an anomaly whose value has been somewhat manipulated by investment bankers, a frothy stock market that's favoring social media stocks and a sort of desperate investor longing for a return to the good old days of the first dotcom boom.

Small businesses skeptical of paying for costly social media marketing have options both old school and cutting edge.

Gen Z shows a slight preference for Twitter (twtr), YouTube, Instagram and Reddit, and they're somewhat more likely than their older co-workers to blame social media for distracting them during the workday.

In March, we profiled upstart ad agency Wexley School for Girls, which has thrived, thanks to a combination of new - media savvy and old - fashioned irreverence.

As Adam Liptak has explained, these older media companies financed many of the major free speech fights of the 20th century; they saw paying for litigation as part of their business model, and as a public duty.

Avid Life Media also reportedly recruited escorts for another dating site, aimed at «sugar daddies» — wealthy older men who want to date younger women, often providing money in exchange for «companionship» and sex.

One more interesting finding: While older Americans are still the least likely to use social - media sites, adoption rates for those 65 and older have tripled from 13 percent in 2009 to 43 percent today.

That's fine, except like I said, my older desktop — the one with most of my life's media on it — doesn't qualify for iCloud.

When a 25 - year - old Yelp employee penned a post on Medium over the weekend detailing her trials working for minimum wage in the customer support section of Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24, the piece hit a nerve on social media.

In a world where music makers face an increasingly crowded market due to the likes of YouTube hopefuls and Canadian Idol winners (and losers), it is interesting to see an old hand like Tom Waits show us how to use media for promotion and advocacy in the same breath.

Sean Gourley, the founder and CEO of Primer, a 2.5 - year - old, previously media - shy startup that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to parse vast quantities of data and spit out pithy, navigable digests, is demonstrating his company's software for me in a midtown Manhattan office near the United Nations» headquarters.

There are still some functions available from the old platform, however, such as the ability to read public media on behalf of a user or to read a user's own media statistics, although the number of requests (the number of times your app accesses Instagram's data, useful for real - time updates) has been reduced to 200 from 5,000.

That said, it's not always easy to know the best social media schedule for new and old content.

And while the concept of the frank personal testimonial as a marketing tool isn't necessarily new — the old Hair Club for Men commercials from the»80s come to mind — in the age of the social media «overshare,» it's undergoing a renaissance.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire on Thursday shut down the 168 - year - old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers.

Peter Romer - Friedman, a lead attorney on the case, said companies rely heavily on social media for job recruitment, so the targeting harms older job - seekers.

I see several older companies that haven't quite yet grasped the concept, proving there is a large demand for social media savvy experts to come in and take the reins.

Over the years, most experiential content marketing campaigns aims for 1:1 connections, hoping each user touched by the brand will share the experience with others through social media or through good old - fashioned word of mouth - which is what makes this Duracell campaign so noteworthy.

«They're still using their old ways for getting business, but a lot has changed,» says Karan Sharma, co-founder of web design agency Kinex Media.

The government also said last year that it was setting aside 800 billion yen to provide free day care for children between 3 and 5 years old and free child care for low income families with children up to 2 years old starting in Apr. 2019, according to Reuters and local media reports.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click - through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

The topics were old standards: The pro-business, yuppie - ish, Clintonian Dems and the more economically lefty, antiwar types are in a fight for the party's soul; the Bush White House is manipulating the media; the «pageant - size fantasy» of certain starry - eyed Dems is of a last - minute Hillary run.

Ordinarily, Netflix customers would have slammed Starz for being a money - grubbing old - media company.

Univision Communications Inc. won a court - administered auction for Gawker Media Group, outbidding Ziff Davis for control of the 14 - year - old digital media pioneer that was forced into bankruptcy by a costly legal battle with former professional wrestler Hulk HMedia Group, outbidding Ziff Davis for control of the 14 - year - old digital media pioneer that was forced into bankruptcy by a costly legal battle with former professional wrestler Hulk Hmedia pioneer that was forced into bankruptcy by a costly legal battle with former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.

On the other line: an investment banker with a juicy tip that chief rival America Online Inc. (AOL) was about to buy old - media giant Time Warner Inc., a deal that ultimately went through for $ 85 billion in stock.

«Vice has taken the old Viacom playbook and built a great youth media business for today's world,» said Freston, who believes Vice's suite of channels that include food, sports and news verticals is prime for continued growth.

BuzzFeed has become the envy of the media world for its seemingly magical ability to engineer stories and ads that are shared widely — whether it's a dress that looks to be either white and gold or blue and black, an investigation into taxpayer - funded «ghost schools» in Afghanistan, or an older cat imparting wisdom to a kitten on behalf of Purina.

This is a fascinating deal - the marriage of old and new in the video media worlds - and a huge accomplishment for Founder Steve Ellis and his brilliant team

Millennials, for all the abuse they take in the media and the narratives of the older generations, are by and large a much more put - together generation than we give them credit for.

Reports said the 55 - year - old rock frontman bought a 2.3 per cent share of the social media site for nearly $ 86m 2009 through Elevation Partners, an investment group he co-founded.

The truth is social media and online communications may never be made safe for very long - buy a good old fashioned paper newspaper!

«It's become the go - to tool for politics, whereas older generations are still relying on traditional media,» Raynauld says.

But at a time when «scale» is the buzzword for media investors, Disney could be the one old - school media behemoth with the muscle to grow in the face of heightened competition from new entrants such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook.