Specs Who Harrison Barnes Age 21 Accomplishments NBA player (small forward with the Golden State Warriors); former UNC Tar Heel; 2011 ACC Rookie of Year Base Oakland, Calif. What’s the first information you consume in the morning? The first thing I do after I turn off my alarm is look at my text messages, then check my Twitter feed. I mainly check it to see what my friends are up to, but obviously I follow news outlets as well.
Google's ad business has matured into its awkward adolescent years, its latest results showed again Thursday.The search giant's old friends -- direct-response advertisers -- have been around long enough to know how much they want to spend with Google and how to counter the company's efforts to get them to spend more, especially for mobile ads.
Did the Federal Communications Commission come close to changing its media ownership rules regarding joint sales agreements and shared service agreements? According to sources, as late as Tuesday, chairman Tom Wheeler was ready to circulate an order that would have eliminated JSAs and SSAs, which have become a target of cable and public interest groups who see SSAs as end-runs around the ownership rules, and as a way to drive up retransmission fees.
Welp, that was fast. Cheerios announced a cute sequel to its surprisingly controversial 2013 ad featuring an interracial family (the original is adorable) and though it's only a day old, it has already generated its first firing.
It's tough to quibble with 22 percent year-on-year growth, which resulted in a $15.7 billion quarter for Google. Not to mention that Google-owned sites enjoyed a similar 22 percent year-over-year spike, hitting $10.6 billion (67 percent of the company's total revenue). But if you want to find something to worry about in today's Q4 earning announcement from Google, the search giant's average cost-per-click did slip 11 percent in Q4 versus the same period last year, and dipped 2 percent versus Q3.
UPDATE: Further Review: Budweiser's 'Puppy Love' Grabs the Pre-Super Bowl CrownAt this point, we all know the battle for brand supremacy at the Super Bowl actually began a few weeks ago when the first ads, teasers and other ads-for-the-ads were "leaked" on the web.We also know at this point that none of these are leaks: they are part of a very meticulous (and e
Viacom's Q4 earnings call included the first discussion of scatter cable prices so far, with the company reporting a 3 percent increase in the market "tempered somewhat by ratings at MTV in a softer marketplace in the month of November," according to Philippe Dauman, president and CEO of the company. Dauman pointed instead to the international market, which is growing at a faster clip than domestic and helped to offset some of the losses.
Newcastle is continuing its Super Bowl-campaign-without-a-Super Bowl-ad, begun last week in a teaser for a commercial that would never be made, by posting a video of Anna Kendrick complaining about how the brand promised her a Super Bowl commercial but backed out.The "Twilight" and "Pitch Perfect" actress says in the video that she was