Sentences with phrase «own media company»

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.

Facebook rolled out an expansion of its Instant Articles project on Tuesday — that's the mobile - focused offering it launched earlier this year, which offers faster - loading pages to media companies who agree to publish directly to the social network.

Passport Capital sold 325,434 shares of the social media company, cutting its stake by more than one quarter.

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

«Twitter inside a larger organization definitely makes theoretical sense, whether it's another internet company or a media company,» Monness, Crespi, Hardt, & Co Inc analyst James Cakmak said.

Most of those dollars came from a conspicuously old - media company: Torstar.

This was something I came to appreciate while working at Bertelsmann, a German media company.

Brands and media companies brought their products to life and tapped into nostalgia in Austin this year.

Although a number of media companies including Vox and Penske Media were said to be interested in bidding for Gawker, the auction only involved bids from Univision and Ziff - Davis.

For additional stats, including the most popular brands - turned - media companies among millennial viewers and other emerging verticals in food, sports, fashion and more, check out the infographic below:

«Cultivating an audience of women - especially young women - has always been the lifeblood of traditional magazine publishing,» says Jim Friedlich, CEO of Empirical Media, which advises media companies on digital growth strategies, via email.

Many media companies have found this strategy is a lucrative way to supplement unpredictable revenue from digital advertising.

The move comes at the start of the time of year known as the annual upfront marketplace, between March and May, when many major U.S. media companies sell the bulk of their ad inventory for the next year.

Snap, Inc. has made deals with large media companies to introduce original TV - like programming to the company's flagship app Snapchat, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

As part of its plan to combat that trend, media company Salon is jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon.

What it does: Builds cloud - based platforms that transmit live videos for media companies

As traditional advertising revenues continue to decline, many media companies — including both new - media entities such as BuzzFeed and traditional outlets like the New York Times — have turned to sponsored content or «native advertising» as a solution.

But as he himself has pointed out before, most media companies consistently failed to understand the changes that were required.

At South by Southwest on March 12, Denton opined on the future of successful media companies.

In most cases there are two easy ways to tell when Facebook (fb) makes a meaningful change to the algorithm: One is that media companies start to moan about how their traffic from the giant social network has been declining rapidly for no apparent reason.

Dunham isn't the first actor or Hollywood celebrity to start her own media company: Gwyneth Paltrow has had some success with her newsletter and site Goop, but others have not been as successful.

Media companies of all kinds are using Slack not just to chat about the news, but to collect and aggregate and publish it as well.

These days, the voracious demands of social media and cable news, make it impossible for media companies to do that anymore.

Under the terms of the deal with Hearst, the media company will publish content from the Lenny Letter on its sites a day after email subscribers get access to it, and Hearst will sell advertising around the content and share the revenue with Dunham and her co-founder Jenni Konner.

«I think we're substantially inoculated from the other issues that are happening in the industry... Just objectively, we're much more of a media company in that way than pure tech.

Though upfronts have traditionally been focused more on television advertising, the rise in digital viewing has forced media companies to come to the ad market with a more holistic approach and sell TV and digital inventory together.

As part of National Small Business Week, June 17 - 21, the U.S. Small Business Administration will host a series of Google + Hangouts featuring an exciting lineup of social media companies, mentorship organizations and distinguished experts.

As the world of online and mobile video continues to fragment, the shifting landscape is requiring media companies to be more nimble to keep up.

The media company's publisher and CEO, Nick Denton, was slapped with an additional $ 10 million.

Panelists at a recent Tow Center conference at Columbia said media companies would be wise to be wary.

That means a certain amount of compensation is based on the two staying with the German media company to run the Business Insider unit for the next decade.

Discovery, like many traditional media companies, is working to get more of its content online as viewers increasingly go to their phones or other mobile devices to view programs.

But that would require the company to admit that it has some responsibilities as a media company, and so far it seems reluctant to do so.

Nick Denton definitely knows what it's like to watch a media company go under.

Feb 26 - Facebook Inc and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg have reached a $ 35 million settlement of class - action litigation accusing them of hiding worries about the social media company's growth prior to its May 2012 initial public offering.

Though the IPO plans are said to be in early stages, the media company could potentially claim the ticker symbol «BUZZ,» which is still unattached to a public company.

So he set to work building an independent media company that he calls «technology - neutral.»

She co-founded the media company Huffington Post before launching the wellness site Thrive Global and is currently on the board of directors for ride - sharing app Uber.

BuzzFeed's point being that, while those media companies likely saw a slight uptick in web traffic from those sponsored posts, the advertising dollars went to Facebook.

French media savant Frederic Filloux, clearly affected by temporarily residing in sunny California, supports a scheme whereby media companies would band together to negotiate with Google (goog) and Facebook (fb) to sell subscriptions on their behalf.

Facebook also said that it was trying to promote original content over content that has shown up a lot in people's feeds already, and that may have helped push down the numbers for media companies as well.

One likely reason for the focus on female readers: media companies» existing know - how.

Lerer Hippeau recently led an investment in a cannabis media company out of Canada.

For more of Inc. at SXSW, check out editor James Ledbetter's interview with the brother - sister leadership team behind social - media company Imgur on March 10.

But the way Nguyen thinks about content and how it is found, what purpose it serves and why it gets shared, is worth considering for almost any media company that wants to survive the current upheaval.

Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

Before it created BuzzFeed Product Lab, BuzzFeed's commerce efforts revolved around affiliate links, where the media company gets paid for driving sales to third party sites.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

We've got two investments so far — Herb, a cannabis - focused media company, and LeafLink, a wholesale order management platform for the cannabis industry.

Slaight told him cable giant Rogers had been sniffing around a six - year - old multi-platform media company called GlassBox TV, which was doing digital publishing, video - on - demand and specialty TV.