Verizon Media Unveils Personal-Finance Site Called Cashay
Digiday: Verizon Media is launching on Wednesday a new personal finance site for Generation Z and millennials called Cashay. The site will feature a mixture of content, including original stories by Cashay’s editorial staff, special reports and series from the Yahoo...
IAC’s Dotdash Acquires Two More Digital Media Publishers
Axios: Dotdash, the IAC-owned digital publishing company that grew from About.com, has acquired two new digital publishers, TreeHugger and Mother Nature Network, to create a new sustainability vertical within its portfolio. Dotdash still makes most of its money from...
Vox Media, Group Nine Say Trump Presidency Imperils Ads
Axios: Media execs are ramping up the public pressure on companies to invest in advertising against quality news. While the the Trump presidency was at first seen as a boon to news, media execs now call it a liability to their ad businesses. "A lot of big brands are...
New York Times Plans to Hike Price of Digital Subscriptions
CNN: The New York Times will raise the price of its digital subscription from $15 every four weeks to $17, its first-ever price bump. The 13% increase will take effect on March 8, the company said on Tuesday. The discount rate for students and educators remains $1...
Conde Nast CEO Toasts Architectural Digest on 100th Year
ADPro: To ring in a century of Architectural Digest, luminaries of the design, fashion, art, and entertainment worlds filled the halls of Pace Gallery in New York. The night was full of bold-faced names who came out to wish Architectural Digest a happy 100th...
Hearst Pulls Cosmo Digital Cover Over ‘White Lives Matter’
People: Fans of the ABC reality series "The Bachelor" might be expecting to see contestant Victoria Fuller grace the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine's digital issue — but that will no longer happen after Fuller was linked to a clothing brand that featured the words...
Meredith’s People Magazine Joins Community Texting App
WWD: A growing number of celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Kerry Washington, Ellen DeGeneres and Amy Schumer have been giving out their cell numbers to fans through texting app Community. Now magazines are starting to get in on the...
Bauer Tests Bundled Magazines as Path to App Profitability
What's New in Publishing: Bauer is one publisher that has persisted with its app editions where many others have given up. Last October, Bauer decided to try a new approach. Bikes Unlimited is the result. It's an app that includes all six of Bauer UK's motorcycle...
Forbes Offers Digital Video Network to Help Entrepreneurs
TalkingBizNews: The latest innovation from Forbes comes in the form of Forbes8, an on-demand digital video network brimming with expert content designed to help the next wave of entrepreneurs take their first steps into the business sphere. "It's based on Forbes'...
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Alphabet Reveals $15 Billion YouTube Ad Revenue in 2019
CNET News: Google parent company Alphabet for the first time gave investors a look at revenue for two key businesses: YouTube and Google Cloud. The video platform generated $15 billion in ad sales in 2019, up 36% from $11 billion the year...
Apple’s Push Into TV is ‘Failing to Resonate,’ Analyst Says
Bloomberg: Apple's streaming-video service has gained limited traction with consumers, and this could represent a cautious signal as the company moves away from hardware sales and toward services, according to Bernstein. The take rate was called "surprisingly...
AT&T’s New Streamer Nabs Film Dropped by Apple, Oprah
Associated Press: The documentary about women who have accused Russell Simmons of sexual abuse has found a distributor after Oprah Winfrey's exit from the film left it in the lurch. HBO Max said it acquired "On the Record," which had been set to be released by Apple...
Disney’s Hulu Enjoys Growth Twice as Fast as Netflix in US
Bloomberg: Hulu’s US subscriptions spiked in the final two months of 2019, fueled by a package that included both Disney+ and ESPN+ for a total of $13 a month. Disney’s bundling of the three services accounted for a significant share of Hulu sign-ups in...
Fox’s Super Bowl Ratings, Ad Success Prove TV Isn’t Dead
Adweek: The Kansas City Chiefs' big victory helped the Super Bowl improve on last year's numbers, but the game narrowly missed reaching 100 million linear viewers for the second consecutive year. Also: Super Bowl 54 likely generated a record $435 million in...
AT&T’s Warner Bros TV Promotes Exec to First-Ever Chief
World Screen: Peter Roth, who has been at Warner Bros. for the past 21 years, has signed a contract extension that will make him the first-ever chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group. Roth has served as president and chief content officer of the group since...
Disney Pays $75 Million for Movie of Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’
Deadline: When Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted the news Monday that the movie adaptation of his Broadway show "Hamilton" was set for release by Disney in fall 2021, he omitted the most breathtaking parts of the deal. Disney beat out other suitors and paid $75 million for...
Facebook’s COO Updates Relationship Status to Engaged
People: Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is set to tie the knot with boyfriend Tom Bernthal. The couple — who were set up by Sandberg's former brother-in-law Rob Goldberg — were engaged after a mountain hike and picnic lunch at Vermejo Park Ranch on...
iHeartMedia Star Limbaugh Reveals Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Associated Press: Conservative radio host and Republican kingmaker Rush Limbaugh said he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Addressing listeners on his program Monday, Limbaugh said he will take some days off for further medical tests and to determine...
Tribune CEO Exits Ahead of Potential Hedge-Fund Takeover
Chicago Sun-Times: The owner of the Chicago Tribune said Monday that Timothy Knight, its president and chief executive officer, is leaving the company, which faces a possible takeover by a hedge fund known for cost-cutting at other news...
McClatchy to Sell Super Bowl Merchandise in Kansas City
Kansas City Star: Nothing says "history" like the front page of the newspaper — and fans can get more copies of the Kansas City Star commemorating the Kansas City Chiefs' big Super Bowl win at the newspaper's store...
Gannett Staffers in Missouri Town Vote to Establish Union
Springfield Business Journal: The bulk of the Springfield News-Leader’s editorial staff voted unanimously on Friday to unionize. The 13-0 vote establishes the Springfield News Guild. "We look forward to finally having a voice at the table on how we are treated by our...
News Corp, McClatchy Hunt for New Readers at Starbucks
Digiday: These days newspapers are scrupulously focusing on eliminating the ways that people can circumvent their paywalls. But some news publishers are finding that a Starbucks pilot program that launched late last year appears to be a worthwhile exception to that...
New York Times Offers ‘Election Needle’ for Iowa Caucus
Mediaite: The New York Times rolled out its signature election needle Monday, in time for the Iowa Caucus. The needle provides a visual representation of the Times‘s election forecasts, showing the likelihood of a candidate winning through an easy-to-read...
Washington Post Staffers Call Out Sexism at Bezos Paper
HuffPost: The Washington Post doesn't value women and men in the same way, according to current and former employees. This appears literally true when it comes to pay: Women in the newsroom are paid less than men, according to a union report published last...
AMI-National Enquirer Expat Reboots Career in Hollywood
Hollywood Reporter: Former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard is in the midst of repositioning himself as a Hollywood player, developing multiple projects in the white-hot true-crime arena. And, intriguingly, he is doing so with the support of a group of industry...
Maven Media Reports Audience Spike at Sports Illustrated
MediaPost: Sports Illustrated is reporting steep increases in audience numbers and more over the past few months, a trend that has gained steam since Maven took over operations of the brand in October 2019. Unique users across its website increased by 36% last...
Conde Nast Taps Teen Fan to Design Vogue Digital Cover
Vogue: When Vogue reached out to Nastya Kovtun, 16, of Chaykovsky, Russia, and Kaylee Yang, 20, from Canton, Michigan, to commission portraits of Billie Eilish for the March issue, both thought they were being duped. "At first I thought the email was a...
BuzzFeed Hires Teens to Create TikTok, Instagram Videos
Nieman Lab: BuzzFeed News is recruiting a brand new type of employee — dubbed "Teen Ambassadors" — who will create original weekly videos for TikTok and Instagram as part of the website’s coverage of the 2020...
G/O Media Sells Parody Site ClickHole to Card-Game Firm
BuzzFeed News: Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased ClickHole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal. ClickHole’s employees will become the majority owners of the...