David Black

“Outside.in–which covers 63 cities and 3,217 neighborhoods–culls the feeds of local-focused Web logs for stories about businesses, activities and news, and attaches them to the appropriate ZIP code.”

“investment bank Jefferies & Co. raised its estimates for the worldwide online advertising industry to more than $60 billion by 2010… The bank also revised its estimates of $26 billion in total revenues for fiscal year 2006 to $30 billion, up 34% yoy.”

“When they go online, magazines are not wielding the same clout because other players have been reaching their targeted audiences for a while. Most of these well-known brands haven’t found traffic or achieved the revenues they hoped for…yet.”

“A year into its integrated newsroom, the Financial Times grew in 2006 while most newspapers slumped.”

“A network’s ability to aggregate an audience starts to matter less in a world where TV delivery over the internet, in to personal video players at the user’s end, liberates the audience from caring about network provider or schedule.”

“I think that this approach — where every major media outlet rejiggers itself into an ideosyncratic, relatively closed social application — is ultimately annoying.”

“The commercial arm of the BBC is planning a substantial push in its international and digital operations… double profits to £200m over the next five years… increase the revenue contribution made by Worldwide’s digital operations to 10% of turnover