pa href="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/newyorker_screenshot.jpg"img src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/newyorker_small.jpg" alt="image" border= "0" align="right" width="240" height="144" //aArianna Huffington's had cameo appearances in iThe New Yorker/i before, but the Oct. 13 issue is a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_collins?currentPage=all" title="pure star treatment"pure star treatment/a—all 10,279 words (if my word count check is on target) and a full-length photo. Star doesn't mean glowing but it does run a little gushy at times, leavened by lots and lots of details. Pour some ouzo or make a nice pot of tea because this one will take you a while.nbsp; One quick Huffington Post-related excerpt: /p p "The site has been a triumph. Since the launch, Huffington and Lerer have raised eleven million dollars. This year, they began to hire reporters and started a local bureau in Chicago; at the Democratic National Convention, they set up a lounge, providing free yoga lessons and facials to conventioneers. (And, presumably, to potential buyers. A recent Times article cited a sale-price estimate of the company at two hundred million dollars, though Huffington says that there are no immediate plans to sell.)" br / /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=cFRTQ6"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=cFRTQ6" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=V9OnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=V9OnM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=3N6XM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=3N6XM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SSsRm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SSsRm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MDtOM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MDtOM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YAYFM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YAYFM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/418175165" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/photo_apatricof.jpg" alt="image" align="right" width="150" height="188" /And while Sequoia and other left-coast VC firms are asking their firms to tighten up, and a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/10/the-sequoia-rip-good-times-presentation-get-your-copy-here/" title="strategically leaking"strategically leaking/a their own advice about surviving the economic downturn (nevermind their investments into some ridiculous companies that don't need to survive this anyway), our own former investor bAlan Patricof/b, founder and managing director of Greycroft Partners, is asking for some restraint in the doom and gloom. His main advice: "This is not a time to panic, cut off all investment in the future, and burrow into a dark hole." The full statement from Patricof, below: /p p "The comments made by the partners of Sequoia Capital at their recently held 'CEO Summit' have been widely covered by leaks to numerous bloggers.nbsp; These bloggers have disseminated the details and spread the contagion of the sentiments to the public at large, unfortunately running the risk that the words become a self-fulfilling prophesy.nbsp; Without challenging the comments, which expressed a heightened degree of doom and gloom for the economic prospects of young start-up companies particularly, I do think it calls for a somewhat more restrained response on the outlook and required action before throwing the baby out with the bath water.nbsp; Certainly, we are going through a period of enormous economic and political uncertainty.nbsp; The loss of confidence, primarily in our financial system, as a result of the excess of the past five to ten years (if not longer - we may never know how long some of the flawed practices have been going on) is one of the leading contributors.nbsp; We are also at the moment looking for leadership on the political front and both because of very low public support for the President and because we are in the midst of a heated election for his successor, we have no real voice of authority to provide some guidance, reassurance, and inspirational confidence that the bus has a driver who knows where he is going. /p p Nevertheless, aside from an over inflated housing boom that had to collapse sooner or later and a complicated financial system that arose in part to fuel this engine, the basic economy was in reasonable shape with GNP growth and productivity gains supporting a solid, if not vibrant outlook.nbsp; (I know the automotive industry is also going through bad times but it no longer pervades the economy as once conveyed in the expression "As GM goes, so goes the nation.") bLots more in extended entry/b... br / /pp Advances in technology are allowing companies to make goods and provide services faster and cheaper.nbsp; The wireless revolution and the Internet have made the dissemination of information easier and more pervasive for the entire world and brought significant benefits to every phase of our economy.nbsp; That is not going to stop although it may temporarily slow down.nbsp; In these difficult times, there will be winners as well as losers (and the former may be fewer in number for a while). /p p The point is, the financial problems are being addressed, if not a bit belatedly, and some international mechanism will be found in short order for some coordinated policy that will restore order and confidence to the system. /p p Most young companies, with which we are specifically concerned, are financed with equity capital.nbsp; That has its positives and negatives; on the one hand, debt is a very small factor in the capital structure of most small companies so loan foreclosures and the interest rate burden are not of prime concern. On the other hand, equity capital, which is provided by private investors, requires confidence in future prospects for reaching profitability and creating a strong market value.nbsp; Certainly under current conditions it is hard to engender such confidence although history has demonstrated that it is in times like these that great opportunities are created.nbsp; I have always said, "The best time to invest is when the drums are beating, not when the trumpets are blaring!" /p p This is surely a time for companies to pay meticulous attention to detail, particularly their cost structure. It is a time to be realistic in their near term assumptions for revenue growth and take nothing for granted.nbsp; Raising additional capital to support operations is of course critical, as it is at any time, but this is particularly a time for young companies to be extra cautious in developing pragmatic assumptions of their needs and in focusing on the amount and not necessarily the cost of that capital. /p p This is not a time to panic, cut off all investment in the future, and burrow into a dark hole.nbsp; Take a page from the packaged goods industry that the time to gain market share is during tough times when your competitors are weaker in responding.nbsp; And while this may feel more directly related to portfolio companies, we as a venture industry should not retreat either.nbsp; It is our strong belief that we can and will continue to make sound investments in excellent opportunities.nbsp; It is as good a time as ever to start a company with sound fundamentals. /p p So my point is to heed the caution of the Sequoia comments but to use them only as a strong message to reexamine all cost elements and growth plans and use this opportunity to assure that you are a survivor.nbsp; Find a way to use this moment to gain your greater share of the market by providing a solution that is needed by others to improve their prospects in the difficult environment ahead.nbsp; Tighten your belt and live within your means.nbsp; Although the timing makes this message seem more prescient, it is a philosophy that works for successful companies at all times and at all stages; it is simply put, good business.nbsp; This is not a time for heroes!" /p piEconWomen, Oct. 29, 2008 | Edison Ballroom | New York City Our panels are jam-packed with top women’s media executives. Register: a href="http://econwomen-RSS.eventbrite.com"http://econwomen.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=zRC6vD"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=zRC6vD" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GO1KM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GO1KM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EN6cM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EN6cM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=0yKfm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=0yKfm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=mhWsM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=mhWsM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GPAUM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GPAUM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417283035" height="1" width="1"/

pWe reported a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-fast-company-lays-off-20-digital-takes-big-hit-sussman-out/" title="earlier today"earlier today/a about Fast Company's merging digital with print operations, and Ed Sussman, the president of Mansueto Digital, leaving as a result. He is now starting a new company, as yet unnamed, that will take the Drupal publishing platform, build on top of it, and help other online publishers develop sites. I spoke to him a bit earlier on this today. /p p He is tying up with two other companies in the sector: a href="http://www.lullabot.com/" title="Lullabot"Lullabot/a, a web dev company working with Drupal, and a href="http://bondartscience.com/" title="Bond Art + Science"Bond Art + Science/a, a web design agency based in NYC and founded by Jeff Dachis, the former founder of Razorfish. For now, the project is self funded among these partners. /p p Both companies partnered with FC on the development of the new FastCompany.com site, which was relaunched on Drupal earlier this year with an intent to make it more social. Taking lessons from that experience, the new company will be launching a platform for groups, individuals and businesses to create social websites. The intent is taking the power of the rather complex module structure of Drupal, and develop easy drag-and-drop tools on top of them, for users to develop beyond blog sites. He told me it will take another three months for the project to go into private alpha, so this is a bit far out. /p p Of course the competition in this rather generic sector is fierce, from all kinds of social networking and web publishing plays, including Ning, Kickapps, Wordpress, and plenty of others. With an economy in a tailspin, who needs another easy-to-use web publishing tool, powerful or otherwise? Too early and easy to say without actually testing out the platform, but we'll find out... /p p It's also not the first time someone's trying to commercialize the Drupal platform. Late last year Acquia raised a $7 million first round to commercially develop Drupal, though that is more on the enterprise side of things. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-acquia-raises-7-million-first-round-for-commercialization-of-drupal-pub" title="Acquia Raises $7 Million First Round For Commercialization Of Drupal Publishing Platform"Acquia Raises $7 Million First Round For Commercialization Of Drupal Publishing Platform/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-drupal-forms-commercial-wing-to-sell-extra-services-to-publishers" title="Drupal Forms Commercial Wing To Sell Extra Services To Publishers"Drupal Forms Commercial Wing To Sell Extra Services To Publishers/a/li /ul piOur mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go a href="http://m.paid.mwap.at/"here to download/a./i /p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=6wjTT7"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=6wjTT7" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=h7EpM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=h7EpM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Zd9kM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Zd9kM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=1dp8m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=1dp8m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=8LM7M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=8LM7M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GsHGM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GsHGM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417274955" height="1" width="1"/

pLayoffs at Mansueto Ventures, specifically the digital side of Fast Company, the result, we're told, of a decision to fold Mansueto Digital into the company's print operations. At the same time, digital head Ed Sussman is leaving to be CEO at a start-up. (More on that to come.) Twenty employees, primarily in online and marketing, have been laid off, according to a href="http://valleywag.com/5061910/fast-company-publisher-to-lay-off-20" title="Valleywag"Valleywag/a. Earlier this year, Fast Company ramped up on digital, hiring high-profile Robert Scoble and launching a href="http://www.fastcompany.tv/" title="Fast Company TV"Fast Company TV/a. At the same time, Fast Company launched a sweeping social media initiative. Scoble stays on but will report to Fast Company magazine editor Bob Safian, who adds responsibility for a href="http://www.fastcompany.com" title="fastcompany.com"fastcompany.com/a. Scoble a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/10/10/economic-crisis-hits-home/" title="wrote about the news"wrote about the news/a this afternoon. /p piEconWomen, Oct. 29, 2008 | Edison Ballroom | New York City Our panels are jam-packed with top women’s media executives. Register: a href="http://econwomen-RSS.eventbrite.com"http://econwomen.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=JTjISY"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=JTjISY" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Qma8M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Qma8M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=sM6iM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=sM6iM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=PIVHm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=PIVHm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=lgDUM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=lgDUM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=7zdnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=7zdnM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417199113" height="1" width="1"/

pIt looks to be a brutal Q3 reporting season: Both Viacom (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=VIA" class="ticker" title="VIA"NYSE: VIA/a) and CBS Corp (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=CBS" class="ticker" title="CBS"NYSE: CBS/a). have cut their respective outlooks, warning investors that they have been taking a hit on the ad slowdown and the wider economic pain touching all businesses right now. /p p -- a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE4997IO20081010" title="Reuters"Reuters/a: Viacom's Q3 earnings will come in at least 10 percent short of Wall Street estimates. The company pinned the decline on the worsening ad revenue picture. That news quickly shot Viacom's stock down 20 percent. Viacom Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman issued a statement saying the media giant, which owns MTV Networks and Paramount, was "moderating our near-term targets" in light of the dismal economy. In its Q2 earnings report, Viacom pointed to both retail and automotives categories as the reason for lower than expected revenues at its cable TV properties. While they held back on strong prediction for Q3, it's clear they couldn't foresee how bad things have gotten. Neither have financial analysts, who keep a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ubs-lowers-q3-estimates-for-online-ad-revenues-offline-still-looks-wors" title="revising their forecasts downward"revising their forecasts downward/a. /p p -- a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={E5C5161C-1780-473B-B26B-98E7E41EDDE8}siteid=nbih" title="Marketwatch"Marketwatch/a: CBS also attributed the current troubles to tightening ad budgets, saying it was blowering its outlook for the year and taking a $14 billion charge/b. That announcement send CBS shares down 14 percent. CBS said it now expects its third-quarter earnings excluding special items to be between 42 and 44 cents a share, compared to 51 cents a share in Q307.nbsp; /p piEconWomen, Oct. 29, 2008 | Edison Ballroom | New York City Our panels are jam-packed with top women’s media executives. Register: a href="http://econwomen-RSS.eventbrite.com"http://econwomen.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=91C6k9"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=91C6k9" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=6kQqM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=6kQqM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=HIz8M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=HIz8M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=aQVGm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=aQVGm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=hinOM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=hinOM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=4xfOM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=4xfOM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417128410" height="1" width="1"/

pUniversal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well...in an a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i69c4daba6cf2b7e56b25cc4576455e6f" title="extensive interview with Billboard"extensive interview with Billboard/a, he talks about the digital piracy issues, UMG's efforts in digital music, working with YouTube and its plans for a Hulu-like music video site, and other issues. He has a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i39aca7c440d50caaa5f088f865f93012" title="just reupped long term"just reupped long term/a as the CEO with the world's largest record label. /p p -- bOn a Wired story a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-12/mf_morris" title="ridiculing him"ridiculing him/a and generally being considered the enemy/b: "They were trying to make fun of me because I'm older and because I come from a different era. But...there's a couple of things that just don't change..They're so entranced and enthralled by all the shiny, new technology, they don't understand that it doesn't work unless you have music that people want. No one's going to download music they don't like." /p p -- bOn stopping piracy/b: "My whole point of view is this problem we're in, which is caused by technology, bwill be solved by technology/b. Some genius on the other side will figure out how to stop the piracy that seems very logical to me. So all these people who come up with these opinions that they should have done this and that, it's all ridiculous." /p p -- bOn taking equity stakes in music startups like Buzznet and MySpace's new venture/b: "No one's going to build a business off our backs if I can help it without us being part of it. It's just not fair... It's better than having a company like bMTV, where we gave them our music for very little money and they built a $30 billion company/b or whatever it was for nothing." /p p -- bOn a Hulu-like online music video site/b: If we do that, bit will be January. If we renew the [YouTube] deal, we wouldn't do that/b. The odds are that we will have a deal with the participation of another label. With YouTube, the quality isn't great; it gets low [cost per thousand]. On the other hand, more professional [services] get a higher CPM. /p p -- bSmartest person in music industry/b: Steve Jobs. "He came back stronger and smarter than anyone has ever done in any industry....We work with him and we try and get what we want with him and I'm sure we aggravate the hell out of him sometimes, but when you look at the whole picture, bwe make a lot of money through iTunes/b. We consider him a friend . . . I talk to him about once a month." /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=XWz1R2"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=XWz1R2" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=XCWiM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=XCWiM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ckthM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ckthM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9FGLm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9FGLm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=avCvM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=avCvM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=AjKIM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=AjKIM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417078785" height="1" width="1"/

pTop headlines of the week from our sister sites mocoNews and paidContent:UK: /p p a href="http://www.moconews.net"img src="http://www.paidcontent.org/_share/img/moconews-logo-small.gif" border="0" align="right"/abmocoNews/b: br / -- a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-tech-startups-told-to-cut-back-spending-analysts-say-downturn-will-hit/" title="Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry"Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry/a br / -- a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-interview-andrew-fisher-ceo-of-shazam/" title="Interview: Andrew Fisher, CEO, Shazam; "Not Just For Pub Quiz Night""Interview: Andrew Fisher, CEO, Shazam; "Not Just For Pub Quiz Night"/a br / -- a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-verizon-to-begin-charging-companies-3-cents-per-text-message/" title="Verizon Will Charge Companies 3 Cents Per Text Message Sent To Their Subscribers"Verizon Will Charge Companies 3 Cents Per Text Message Sent To Their Subscribers/a br / -- a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-verisign-exits-mobile-sells-remaining-stake-in-jv-to-news-corp-for-200-/"VeriSign Exits Mobile Content; Sells Remaining Stake In JV To News Corp For $200 Million/a br / -- a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-rim-launches-touchscreen-blackberry-storm/"RIM Launches Touchscreen Blackberry Storm/a /p p a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk"img src="http://www.paidcontent.org/_share/img/pcuk-logo-small.gif" border="0" align="right"/abpaidContent:UK/b: br / -- a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-news-internationals-solution-to-readership-downturn-invest-in-print/"News International's Solution to Readership Downturn? Invest In Print/a br / -- a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-askcom-aims-for-more-relevance-more-engagement-with-latest-revamp-more-/"Ask.com Aims For More Relevance, More Engagement With Latest Revamp; More Users Wouldn't Hurt/a br / -- a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-online-ad-spend-exceeds-expectations-rises-21-percent-in-h108-iab-uk/"Online Ad Spend Exceeds Expectations, Rises 21 Percent In H108: IAB UK/a br / -- a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-times-online-reshuffles-senior-editorial-staff-scraps-online-editor-job/"Times Online Reshuffles Senior Editorial Staff, Scraps Online Editor Job/a br / -- a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-newsquest-axing-staff/"Newsquest Cutting Print Staff, Adding 'Multimedia Journalists'/a /p p iJoin us for a href="http://www.fobmconference.com/"FOBM/a, a href="http://www.contentnext.com/econsports/"EconSports/a and a href="http://www.contentnext.com/econwomen/"EconWomen/a in NYC on Oct. 28-29. Econ combos are available for $500 and a ticket for all three events are $999./i /p piRegister for Future of Business Media: a href="http://fobm2008-front.eventbrite.com"http://fobm2008.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=EYJjLI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=EYJjLI" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=KTSsM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=KTSsM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2OKHM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2OKHM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=6mbLm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=6mbLm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=kl4iM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=kl4iM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=pwRUM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=pwRUM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417078784" height="1" width="1"/

pa href="http://www.youtube.com/" title="YouTube"YouTube/a, hoping to counter the competition from sites like the NBC/News Corp. JV a href="http://www.hulu.com" title="Hulu"Hulu/a, has started running full-length episodes of CBS (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=CBS" class="ticker" title="CBS"NYSE: CBS/a) programming. Executives at the Google-owned video site a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINN1037791320081010?rpc=44" title="told Reuters"told Reuters/a that CBS would handle ad sales for its shows and share the revenue with YouTube. The breakdown of the split wasn't disclosed. YouTube also indicated that a similar deal was in the works with "another major network." In the meantime, CBS does not have a programming deal with Hulu, although the video site does direct users who search for that network's shows back to the CBS site. /p p CBS has one of the most subscribed channels on YouTube, with 83,000 users signed up. The channel debuted two years ago and has recorded 4.2 million views. There are only four CBS shows currently available in the full-episode mode on YouYube-- iBeverly Hills 90210/i, iStarTrek: The Original Series/i, iThe Young and the Restless/i and iMacGyver/i. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-youtube-adds-affiliate-links-to-its-videos-amazon-and-itunes-downloads" title="YouTube Adds Affiliate Links To Its Videos; Amazon and iTunes Downloads"YouTube Adds Affiliate Links To Its Videos; Amazon and iTunes Downloads/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-youtube-video-ads-goes-post-roll-ad-overlays-are-not-enough" title="YouTube Video Ads Goes Post-Roll; Ad Overlays Are Not Enough"YouTube Video Ads Goes Post-Roll; Ad Overlays Are Not Enough/a/li /ul piOn October 29 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, EconSports will delve into everything: the complicated economics of league rights, data business, syndication, exclusivity, premium and more. Register for Econsports: a href="http://econsports.eventbrite.com"http://econsports.eventbrite.com/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=LXnNsF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=LXnNsF" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EFcGM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EFcGM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YHUrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YHUrM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=wWXNm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=wWXNm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=kUoLM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=kUoLM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=FAhYM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=FAhYM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/417039263" height="1" width="1"/

pThe Associated Press, source of so much of today's financial news, is doing a little in-house education on its own finances. In a a href="http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13640" title="memo to staff"memo to staff/a sent out yesterday and posted today on Romenesko, AP assured staff it's on a "solid financial footing" with a positive cash flow but is taking steps to keep spending "in line" including a company-wide strategic hiring freeze, which we will re-examine regularly." It also sought to reassure staff on the status of its retirement funds but suggested that staffers directing their own investment plans diversify. /p p -- bAP's revenue mix/b: Yes, it's more diversified than ever but newspapers still make up 25 percent of AP's revenue and the controversial change in rate structure we've been writing about here. "With the heavy economic difficulties the media industry is facing, and the new rate structure being rolled out to our newspaper members under Member Choice, we are facing a challenging 2009. bWe remain financially secure, but our cash flow will be affected/b and, as a result, we will be cautious with new initiatives while looking for opportunities to economize." br / /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-editors-on-singleton-sure-were-concerned-about-costs-but-were-the-ones-"Editors On Singleton: Sure, We're Concerned About Costs—But We're The Ones Getting Whipped/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-asks-publishers-to-re-sell-its-content-will-share-revenue/"AP Asks More Publishers To Re-Sell Its Content, 50/50 Rev Share/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-challenges-grow-as-cost-cutting-papers-look-for-line-items-to-slash/"AP Challenges Grow As Cost-Cutting Papers Look For Line Items To Slash/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-interview-tom-curley-ceo-associated-press/"Interview: Tom Curley, CEO, Associated Press; Portals, Local Content—'The Mother of all Battles'/a/li /ul piOur mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go a href="http://m.paid.mwap.at/"here to download/a./i /p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=hqEAxs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=hqEAxs" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=GtNJM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=GtNJM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=4NcrM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=4NcrM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=REFpm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=REFpm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=TVLSM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=TVLSM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=FyApM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=FyApM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416994296" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/cosmogirl.gif" alt="image" align="right" border="0" width="170" height="108" /Magazines may have been weathering the economic downturn better than newspapers, but the current upheaval in the financial markets makes it only more likely that survival will be more difficult. And so, in advance of an increasingly pessimistic outlook, Hearst has decided to shutter iCosmoGirl/i magazine, the second mag the publisher has closed this year, a href="http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/10/10/hearst-folds-cosmogirl" title="Portfolio reported"Portfolio reported/a. In a statement, Hearst said that its teen publishing activities into iSeventeen/i, it's premiere title in that area. While iCosmoGirl's/i December issue will be its last, it will continue on as a web-only publication. /p p It will remain part of the Hearst Teen Network of websites, which includes a href="http://www.seventeen.com" title="Seventeen.com"Seventeen.com/a, a href="http://www.teenmag.com" title="Teenmag.com"Teenmag.com/a, a href="http://www.eSpin.com" title="eSpin.com"eSpin.com/a, a href="http://www.MyPromStyle.com" title="MyPromStyle.com"MyPromStyle.com/a, and a href="http://www.MisQuinceMag.com" title="MisQuinceMag.com"MisQuinceMag.com/a. The move follows a similar one taken by Time Inc., which closed iTeen People/i as a print property this summer, while continuing its existence in an online-only version. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-hearst-digital-partners-with-sheknows-not-just-about-portals-anymore" title="Hearst Digital Partners With SheKnows: Not Just About Portals Anymore"Hearst Digital Partners With SheKnows: Not Just About Portals Anymore/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-online-mags-experience-limited-success-in-luring-print-subscribers-repo" title="Online Mags Experience Limited Success In Luring Print Subscribers: Report"Online Mags Experience Limited Success In Luring Print Subscribers: Report/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/hearst-magazines-revamps-mobile-sites-for-lifestyle-titles-embraces-ad-fund" title="Hearst Magazines Revamps Mobile Sites For Lifestyle Titles, Embraces Ad-Funded Approach"Hearst Magazines Revamps Mobile Sites For Lifestyle Titles, Embraces Ad-Funded Approach/a/li /ul piA Complimentary Webinar from Innodata Isogen--bBeyond Cost Arbitrage: Best Practices for Delivering Large-Scale Editorial Outsourcing Services/b. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010470000000000000000/SITE=TEST/AAMSZ=SPONPOST_NEWS/MONTH=SEP/relocate=http://www.innodata-isogen.com/knowledge_center/editorial_outsourcing?bdls=16267"Register now/a/i./p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=dlVQ7R"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=dlVQ7R" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=1YBOM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=1YBOM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=HpWjM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=HpWjM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=3KMbm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=3KMbm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Zq6bM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Zq6bM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=iJUyM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=iJUyM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416957060" height="1" width="1"/

pA link bait if there ever was one, and a flawed one at best, but then, always fun for the rest of us: a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10063020-2.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20" title="a list of 11 online companies"a list of 11 online companies/a that may be in trouble in short to medium term as the economy falls apart: the first 10 are actually decent MA targets, and the last one, MySpace, is surely not in any imminent trouble. And with around $900 million in revenues, it is not going anywhere anytime soon. The interesting part is the first-gen companies like Skype, Ask.com and if they will make the cut in the long run... /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=dx6JTt"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=dx6JTt" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=O5YPM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=O5YPM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=htggM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=htggM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qrzJm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qrzJm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=d3ZhM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=d3ZhM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Lmo8M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Lmo8M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416957061" height="1" width="1"/

pAt the rate it is going, $15 per share might sound enticing to Yahoo (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker" title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a) after a while. A small Yahoo investor a href="http://www.mithrascapital.com/" title="Mithras Capital"Mithras Capital/a has put out a proposal asking MSFT to rebid for the company at $22 a share, a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE4990IN20081010?sp=true" title="reports Reuters"reports Reuters/a. As part of a proposed deal, Microsoft (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSFT" class="ticker" title="MSFT"NSDQ: MSFT/a) would unload Yahoo's Asian assets and non-search businesses, extract $3 billion worth of cost savings and receive $2.8 billion of tax benefits, which means MSFT will pay $10.3 billion for Yahoo's search business (about $2 billion less than it was willing to pay earlier in the summer for search portion). It also calls for Yahoo to drop its poison pill, while valuing Yahoo's Asian assets at $7.2 billion and its non-search business at $4.5 billion. Earlier this year Mithras a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/06/16/yahoo-holder-mithras-capital-to-back-icahn-slate/" title="backed Carl Icahn's stak"backed Carl Icahn's stak/ae in the company. /p p Yahoo's shares hit a five year low yesterday, and today is down about 2 percent today to trade below $13. The Yahoo-Google (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker" title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) ad deal is certainly going to be mired in regulatory issues in a while, and any Yahoo-AOL (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=TWX" class="ticker" title="TWX"NYSE: TWX/a) combination would also face somewhat similar regulatory issues. /p pnbsp;/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=m9Tacr"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=m9Tacr" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=BkjnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=BkjnM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=UlHYM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=UlHYM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=U5L5m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=U5L5m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=3olnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=3olnM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=cmO6M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=cmO6M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416885450" height="1" width="1"/

pMartha Stewart Living Omnimedia (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSO" class="ticker" title="MSO"NYSE: MSO/a) has named former InStyle.com exec Gail Horwood to the new role of SVP Digital Programming and Strategy. Horwood will oversee MSLO's digital properties, including MSLO sites a href="http://www.marthastewart.com" title="marthastewart.com"marthastewart.com/a and a href="http://www.wholeliving.com" title="wholeliving.com"wholeliving.com/a. In addition to guiding the sites' editorial strategy, Horwood will work with the merchandising team on driving the online retail business.nbsp; /p p Horwood is the first major digital hire since Wenda Harris Millard and Robin Marino were named co-CEOs after Susan Lyne a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mslo-ceo-lyne-steps-down-millard-and-marino-named-co-ceos/" title="stepped down"stepped down/a this summer. (The company has made one other executive hire since the Millard and Marino took over: Patsy Pollack was brought in as EVP of Merchandising in August.) Before serving as executive director at InStyle.com, Horwood was executive director, creative development at Time Inc. Interactive and VP, global content at Zagat Survey and editor-in-chief of CondeNet's food site a href="http://www.epicurious.com/" title="Epicurious"Epicurious/a. a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=96022p=irol-newsArticleID=1208293highlight=" title="Release"Release/a /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mso-co-ceos-millard-650k-base-salary-100-percent-target-bonus" title="Filings Watch: MSLO Co-CEOs Millard; $650K Base Salary; 100 Percent Target Bonus"Filings Watch: MSLO Co-CEOs Millard; $650K Base Salary; 100 Percent Target Bonus/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mslo-ceo-lyne-steps-down-millard-and-marino-named-co-ceos/" title="Industry Moves: MSLO CEO Lyne Steps Down; Millard and Marino Named Co-CEOs"Industry Moves: MSLO CEO Lyne Steps Down; Millard and Marino Named Co-CEOs/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=OBb503"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=OBb503" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ry3LM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ry3LM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=WfqdM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=WfqdM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=oO0Om"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=oO0Om" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Ii07M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Ii07M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=RkpyM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=RkpyM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416885449" height="1" width="1"/

pa href="http://www.Hollywood.com" title="Hollywood.com"Hollywood.com/a, the newly independent and newly relaunched, online celeb/entertainment sites, has acquired a href="http://www.mediabynumbers.com/" title="Media by Numbers"Media by Numbers/a, a box office data and analysis resource founded by Paul Dergarabedian, a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993732.html?categoryid=1009cs=1nid=2570" title="Variety reports"Variety reports/a. Financial information wasn't disclosed. Dergarabedian stays on as president. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-hollywoodcom-redesign-to-launch-as-early-as-tonight" title="Hollywood.com Redesign To Launch As Early As Tonight"Hollywood.com Redesign To Launch As Early As Tonight/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-hollywood-media-sells-hollywoodcom-unit-to-its-own-chairman-up-to-10-mi" title="Update: Hollywood Media Sells Hollywood.com To Its Own Chairman; Up To $10 Million, Mostly Earnout"Update: Hollywood Media Sells Hollywood.com To Its Own Chairman; Up To $10 Million, Mostly Earnout/a/li /ul piOur mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go a href="http://m.paid.mwap.at/"here to download/a./i /p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=zcyZih"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=zcyZih" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=6Kw0M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=6Kw0M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=22SqM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=22SqM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=BDs5m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=BDs5m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YuX5M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YuX5M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=G6GmM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=G6GmM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416859073" height="1" width="1"/

pWith China's internet audience estimated at 250 million and growing as the a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ubs-lowers-q3-estimates-for-online-ad-revenues-offline-still-looks-wors" title="U.S. online ad market slows"U.S. online ad market slows/a, Nielsen is hoping for a little balance by expanding its partnerships to measure China's media use. The company has struck a joint venture with Beijing media usage tracker ChinaRank, a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122357907789819935.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" title="WSJ reports"WSJ reports/a. This isn't Nielsen's introduction to China. It has monitored TV viewing and other media there for the past 25 years and has been tracking China's internet use for individual clients seven years ago. Nielsen is also working with Beijing Zhongqian Wangrun Information Technology on releasing data publicly for the web entire market. Rival audience measurement company comScore (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SCOR" class="ticker" title="SCOR"NSDQ: SCOR/a) also tracks online use in China, but it doesn't put out the numbers publicly. /p p While growth in online advertising has been cooling lately, China's online-ad market is still nascent. Even with the tremendous uncertainty about what impact a global recession will have on web ad dollars, China still seems poised for growth.nbsp; Display ad expenditures in China are very small a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-display-ads-growth-rate-was-cut-in-half-in-h108-category-gained-8-perce" title="compared to the U.S."compared to the U.S./a, which is nearly $6 billion, with $675.4 million spent there in H108, according to the first set of data from CR-Nielsen, as the venture is called. /p p The Chinese online market is heavily dependent on automotive, computer and electrical and fashion industries—so a slowdown could halt that expected growth. But over the long-term, the deals give Nielsen a strong position in the country, as it will have greater access to local content and analysis. It will also have the ability to expand its monitoring to all media usage, including TV and retail purchases. WSJ says that Nielsen's and ChinaRank's joint-venture has the option to go public in the U.S., that's probably a while away at this point. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nielsen-takes-next-step-in-audience-measurement-combines-mobile-web-tra" title="Nielsen Finally Combines Mobile Web Traffic With PC Online Use"Nielsen Finally Combines Mobile Web Traffic With PC Online Use/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nielsen-acquires-media-measurement-firm-iag" title="Nielsen Acquires Media Measurement Firm IAG Research For $225 Million"Nielsen Acquires Media Measurement Firm IAG Research For $225 Million/a/li /ul piA Complimentary Webinar from Innodata Isogen--bBeyond Cost Arbitrage: Best Practices for Delivering Large-Scale Editorial Outsourcing Services/b. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010470000000000000000/SITE=TEST/AAMSZ=SPONPOST_NEWS/MONTH=SEP/relocate=http://www.innodata-isogen.com/knowledge_center/editorial_outsourcing?bdls=16267"Register now/a/i./p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=hvdC16"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=hvdC16" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ApHGM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ApHGM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=RaSsM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=RaSsM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9Zd1m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9Zd1m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NI4DM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NI4DM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=xgNXM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=xgNXM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416847593" height="1" width="1"/

pShe might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time Inc's (NYSE:TWX) CEO and Chairman a href="v" title="Anne Moore"Anne Moore/a doesn't sound too concerned. She tells a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article4916337.ece" title="The Times"The Times/a of a two-year strategy to get her company, owner of consumer UK magazine publisher IPC Media, through the downturn—which will look to address its nine percent Q208 drop in ad revenue. bDigital revenues grew 73 percent in 2007 and now make up 15 percent of the group's total ad revenue/b. Moore considers Time not a magazine publisher but a "content company" But as The Times's Dan Sabbagh writes: "bNevertheless, print magazine advertising is heading south this year, and digital growth in 2008 will miss the previous 53 per cent target/b". /p p Moore says it will be "tough to grow revenues" in 2009 but aims "to do better than stand still" in terms of profit. One option is to sell-off IPC, the publisher music weekly iNME/i and lads' mag iLoaded/i which it bought for £1.1 billion in 2001, but Moore insists this is not on the cards, asking "Where did you hear that from? I know, wishful thinking from bankers hoping for a mandate." /p p Given the a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-rbi-sell-off-stalls-again-with-180m-finance-shortfall" title="current difficulties"current difficulties/a Reed Elsevier is experiencing sell-off its B2B division Reed Business Information, it's safe to say that now would not be the best time to sell in any case.nbsp; /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=Wdo4DA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=Wdo4DA" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Ke48M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Ke48M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=L8T8M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=L8T8M" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SnmWm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SnmWm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9x9xM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9x9xM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=D1F1M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=D1F1M" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/416847596" height="1" width="1"/

pReed Elsevier's (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=RUK" class="ticker" title="RUK"NYSE: RUK/a) troubled attempt to sell-off its UK B2B division Reed Business Information appears to be in big trouble with the news that bids for the company since August have fallen about a half-million dollars, a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085sid=aC_xXYPEUhz4refer=europe" title="according to Bloomberg"according to Bloomberg/a. Two unidentified sources close to the deal told the news service the bids have dropped to about $1.7 billion (£97 million) from $2.3 billion (£1.3 billion). The company has struggled to attract the financing needed to seal the deal since the sale was announced in February. Merrill Lynch analyst Paul Sullivan said in a note that the risk of the sale "being delayed or falling through has clearly increased". br / The markets were unimpressed and shares in Reed Elsevier dipped 6.4 percent to 468.25 pence at 1.34pm in London trading today, its lowest value since February 2004. /p p Three PE firms remain in the third round of bidding—Bain Capital LLC, Apollo Management and a combined group of TPG Inc and DLJ Merchant Banking—and seven banks are prepared to put in $900 million (£515 million) to finance the deal while Reed itself is set to put in about $330 million (£189 million). So it is still possible that a