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Skype Dials for Dollars With In-App Ads

Skype just revealed something new--it's adopting in-app adverts. Don't worry, they won't interfere with your "Skype experience."READ»

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Twitter Could Earn $150 Million in Ad Revenue This Year: Report

An industry analyst sees ad growth pace similar to Facebook.READ»

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Urban Airship Powers Mobile Subscriptions--to Anything

Brought to you in part by people who pioneered online bacon sales, Urban Airship knows a thing or two about monetizing the improbable.READ»

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Twitter Offers First @earlybird Exclusive Deal

The third phase of Twitter's moneymaking schemes launched this week, with the introduction of @earlybird in addition to Promoted Tweets and Promoted Trends.READ»

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YouTube is Finally Letting You Skip Ads, Later This Year

YouTube is to allow its viewers to skip ads on its videos later this year, according to a senior product manager. The firm has been experimenting with skipping pre-rolls since November 2009, but the new proposal, which consists of an ...READ»

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Twitter Finally Reveals Its Money-Making Plan: Promoted Tweets

At long last, Twitter unveiled a way to actually make some money: Promoted Tweets. And they're just the first step.READ»

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Monetizing Mobile Video Services

The key discussions around multimedia services used to be all about technology - the meetings were with the CTO personnel and were very limited about how to actually make money. READ»

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10 Questions that Media Companies Should Know the Answer To

As media companies like the New York Times Co. continue to post dreary results and circulation numbers continue to decline rapidly across the industry – It got me thinking of some questions that these companies (and other media ...READ»

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Blackout Beginning for TBS: Could they have responded on the Web or via Mobile Devices?

Fans across the nation (especially Red Sox Nation), many whom had just sat through Turner Broadcasting System’s (TBS) pregame for Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) American League Championship Series (ALCS), prepared for ...READ»

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Joe the Plumber Gets His Fifteen Minutes on the Tube and on the Web

John McCain’s “invisible friend,” as Keith Olbermann of MSNBC dubbed him after the debate, was the run away winner last night. I’m talking, of course, about “Joe the Plumber” (AKA Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber). John ...READ»

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Can the Wisdom of the Crowds Help Us Through the Downturn?

As mainstream media becomes more open to tapping into the blogosphere and even the Twittersphere during this collapse; news and analysis are becoming two-way conversations.READ»

AOL Buys Social Network Bebo

Yesterday, AOL announced its pending acquisition of Bebo, the third largest social network in the United States, for $850 million. The announcement comes amid ongoing speculation of where AOL and its parent company Time Warner fit in ...READ»