Daily Archives: 23 March 2007

“What they’re planning is a premium content site that’s ad supported from the beginning but, according to an executive familiar with the distribution side, also will grant some rights to users.”

“Guardian blogs editor told an industry conference that news groups trying to make money out of blogging communities were ‘putting the cart before the horse’.”

Analysis of how the profile of print newspaper readers compares with that of newspaper site users.

“People are about twice as likely to play a video, or replay one that started automatically, than they are to click through standard JPG or GIF image ads.”

Independent.co.uk online revenues up 65% year-on-year, though no absolute figures given.

“Mr Brown cut to the chase just a bit too late for our deadlines yesterday. Do I look bothered? Should I be? We got the detail of his budget speech online, even if it missed the print product.”

“Think of it as a Web Safari through the most interesting things happening in Bakersfield today.”