Evolve​ ​Law​ ​will​ ​join​ ​Above​ ​the​ ​Law​ ​in​ ​Spring​ ​2018

Since 2014, Evolve Law has built the largest community of legal tech startups and innovators in the world with 150+ member companies. In 2017, Evolve Law partnered with Above the Law to significantly member benefits and reach, and in 2018, Evolve Law will merge into Above the Law. Evolve Law CEO Mary Juetten commented, “I […]

How Many Insiders Are There In Business?

Digiday published “Who’s winning at business news on the web” which details traffic, demographics, and ad rates of the five biggest business sites (in ascending order): The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, Forbes, Business Insider, and Yahoo Finance. Business Insider made the largest jump, growing 80% traffic in one year to 40.8 million unique visitors per […]

Is the FCC’s Consideration of Media Ownership Laws a Waste of Time?

When I first started writing about media seven years ago, the biggest public-policy question was this: How many media outlets should one company be allowed to own in a given market? In those pre-Google IPO, pre-Facebook days, there was a very real concern that big, publicly-owned media companies, like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. or Clear […]

Some Suggested Taglines for MySpace’s New Ad Campaign

Ad Age has the scoop that MySpace is poking — hahahaha- wrong network — around for an ad agency to do a branding blitz in support of it oh-so-hotly anticipated relaunch. The News Corp.-owned property has been getting pounded by Facebook, even with its big-time PR screw-ups. Global users, according to Ad Age, has dropped […]

What Would William Randolph Hearst Say About the iCrossing Deal?

When William Randolph Hearst died in 1951, television was only just beginning to firm its grip on American culture and newspapers still set the agenda. The Internet hadn’t even been imagined. Yet, I believe, it’s safe to say that if Hearst the man could weigh in on Hearst the company’s latest acquisition — not a […]

The Media Business Might Need a Savior, but Steve Jobs Isn’t It

When Steve Jobs speaks, people listen. Not only do they listen, but their jaws drop slack, a droplet of saliva drools to the chin to dry and the head nods in happy obedience. That’s all well and good when you’re talking about hordes of mindless fanboys who have given over their souls to the Apple […]

What Yahoo’s Deal for Associated Content Means

Last week Yahoo agreed to spend $90 million on Associated Content. While we sniffed at the quality of Associated’s two million-plus consumer-written articles, the deal has serious implications for the media business. Here’s how it impacts four different constituents. For Yahoo I think we can safely say that it depends on post-deal execution, as it […]

Hey CNN, Look to Twitter to Fill Your 8 O’Clock Hole

Campbell Brown’s “honest broker” attempt at “no bias, no bull” has fallen to the ideologically booby-trapped no-spin produced by Bill O’Reilly at Fox and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC. CNN will undoubtedly try to fill her spot with another old media type who has a little more star power. Or CNN president Jon Klein will have […]

5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Online Porn Business

Ever dream of building a porn website? Then you should have become an academic. Maybe you would have been one of the five “security researchers” from the Technical University of Vienna, Sophia Antipolis and University of California- Santa Barbara who set out to answer one of the most pressing questions of our time: How do […]

The Facebook Exodus Will be Small — And Very Canadian

When May 31 rolls around, I’ll do what I do on the last day of every other month: Pay my rent and some other bills, go to work and come home. What I won’t be doing is quitting Facebook, despite the best efforts of some to turn the day into a mass rejection of the […]