According to a recent presentation, BuzzFeed reaches more millennial video viewers than most of the major U.S. television networks, and it gets five times as much traffic from social as it… Read more »
Google is launching a new service for websites called Contributor, which allows users to sign up and pay anywhere from $1 to $3 a month to sites that they visit frequently… Read more »
SAY Media, created when video-content company VideoEgg acquired blog-software provider Six Apart in 2010, says it is selling off its media properties — the latest example of a company getting squeezed… Read more »
A company called Ultramercial has for years claimed that a monopoly over an “invention” for showing pre-roll ads on the internet, and sued the likes of Hulu and YouTube for royalty… Read more »
Ben Thompson started his blog less than two years ago, without a nationally recognized brand name or following, and launched a membership model less than six months ago — but he’s… Read more »
Yahoo is acquiring video advertising company BrightRoll for $640 million in cash. Marissa Mayer announced the acquisition with a post on the official Yahoo blog Tuesday, where she said that BrightRoll will… Read more »
BuzzFeed strenuously denies that it engages in what some call “clickbait,” which the site defines as not following through on the promise of a headline — but that’s not the only… Read more »
Disqus, one of the largest comment-hosting platforms on the web, is launching a feature that could add sponsored comments to the sites of many leading publishers — but that seems unlikely… Read more »
Facebook exerts a huge amount of control over how millions of people get their news, and media companies are right to be nervous about this state of affairs — so what… Read more »
With the launch of the Fabric suite of tools, Twitter is betting the company on a plan to become a full-fledged mobile services provider for other apps and services — but… Read more »