It’s a win for the ages, literally, McGarry Bowen, led by a trio of veteran admen who’ve been around the block and then around it again, has bested the competition with a new business run that added an estimated $66 million in revenue to its coffers—a 60 percent jump from 2010.
The Walt Disney Co.’s Disney Online has acquired parenting blog platform Babble Media Inc., adding its 200 overwhelmingly mom bloggers to Disney Interactive Media Group’s Moms and Family portfolio of family-oriented properties. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“As if to make it all pretty, Arrington told reporters yesterday that he has put a clause in his limited partnership agreement so he can report on anything he likes, and in any way, about his investors and their companies, however confidential, except those he invests in.”
Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue, in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. I contend that we are approaching the early part of the mania phase.
Online already represents the second-biggest advertising medium after television, after surpassing print newspaper ad spending in 2010. By 2013, online ad spending will be greater than print spending on both magazines and newspapers combined.
via TV Ad Spending Largely Unaffected by Growth Online – eMarketer.
How a late-night Luddite accidentally fought his way back into bedrooms and computers, smartphones, and tablets across America.
The rise of data and analytics will have the most significant impact on media companies within the next two years concludes the report. …acquiring and developing talent and new technologies are key areas of investment…small companies complain of the lack of capital and credit for expansion while larger companies are primarily concerned with a lack of talent in emerging areas.
via MediaPost Publications New Talent A Key To Expected Business Growth 02/03/2011.
Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter.
via Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand – Bloomberg.
In sales, it’s not “can you build a relationship,” it’s how many relationships can you build? Determination and competitiveness matter first, because that is what drives the “deliberate practice” that results in greatness.
via MediaPost Publications What Makes A Great Salesperson In The Automated Age? Some Answers 09/02/2010.