Wednesday 27 November 2013

Media AM - Mail Online, Hearst, brand videos, Magic vs Logic, Telegraph Media Group, UK adspend

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27th November 2013
Mail Online to launch in Australia with Mi9  
Mail Online to launch in Australia with Mi9
Mail Online is set to unveil plans for a launch in Sydney, Australia through a partnership with established digital media company Mi9.
 
Red faces at Hearst as CEO de Puyfontaine does exit for Vivendi  
Red faces at Hearst as CEO de Puyfontaine does exit for Vivendi
Hearst Magazines UK has today announced chief executive Arnaud de Puyfontaine will be leaving for French media company Vivendi, despite issuing an outright denial of his move only last week.
 
IMterview: Brand videos this Christmas a dearth of emotional porn  
IMterview: Brand videos this Christmas a dearth of emotional porn
Paul and Darika are the 'Trinny and Susannah' of digital marketing. Every week the pair will look at what's going on behind the latest news... your agency won't tell you the truth, but they're not your agency.
 
Magic vs Logic - who wins the marketing battle?  
Magic vs Logic - who wins the marketing battle?
The search for greater ROI can hinder brands' ability to create "magic" for consumers. One marketing decision-maker steps into the spotlight to explain what influences these decisions.
 
Telegraph appoints Jon Brendsel as group CIO  
Telegraph appoints Jon Brendsel as group CIO
Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has appointed Public Broadcasting Service's Jon Brendsel as its group chief information officer.
 
UK adspend to reach £13.9bn in 2013, topping 2007 peak  
UK adspend to reach £13.9bn in 2013, topping 2007 peak
UK adspend is now predicted to increase by seven per cent in 2013 and top its pre-recession peak in 2007, according to WPP's Group M, which has doubled its growth forecast.
 
Ebay aims to inspire with 'world's first shoppable panto'  
Ebay aims to inspire with 'world's first shoppable panto'
Ebay is placing "inspiration" at the heart of its Christmas marketing activity, with the "world's first shoppable pantomime" and its first TV sponsorship deal.
 
How Twitter should cope with the pressure to monetise  
How Twitter should cope with the pressure to monetise
With all eyes on Twitter after its IPO last week, the pressure is on to continue growth and monetise the platform. Anne McCreary, digital strategy director at Carat, examines what this will mean for brands and advertisers and how these relationships can continue Twitter's winning streak.
 
Youth voice SB.TV plots growth beyond YouTube  
Youth voice SB.TV plots growth beyond YouTube
Jamal Edwards, the founder of the online youth video broadcaster, says his expansion plans are about more than money.
 
Campaign Media Awards offer welcome recognition for ambitious masochists  
Campaign Media Awards offer welcome recognition for ambitious masochists
It was in October 2009 when I answered the phone to Daren Rubins. The conversation started pleasantly enough, but soon descended. MEC had just been awarded Media Week's Agency of the Year, and the then managing director of PHD, raw with ambition and green with envy, wanted answers.
 
For an ancient medium, mags don't feel past it  
For an ancient medium, mags don't feel past it
In a week when the trade body for the magazine business, the PPA, celebrates its centenary, Campaign asks three leading lights for their views on the medium's past, present and future.
 
Govt urged to resolve digital switchover row  
Govt urged to resolve digital switchover row
Radio stations seek a speedy resolution as they argue their cases for and against turning off analogue. By David Benady.
 
The open, interconnected web has sadly turned into  a corporate battleground  
The open, interconnected web has sadly turned into a corporate battleground
Something important died last week. It was a little service called LastGraph, which took data about your music-listening habits from Last.fm and made it into all sorts of pretty and interesting graphs.
 
Is BT Sport's Uefa contract win a big deal?  
Is BT Sport's Uefa contract win a big deal?
When news broke of BT Sport's three-year deal to broadcast the Uefa Champions League and Europa League, there were predictable cries from pundits that the young network had "outplayed" its rivals Sky and ITV, and that the "whistle had blown" on the battle over sports rights.
 
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Non-mobile publishers face search engine peril  
Non-mobile publishers face search engine peril
Unless more digital publishers start implementing a mobile site strategy, Google's going to start to penalising them in natural search rankings, believes Vibrant Media's Fiona Salmon.
 
Twitter IPO should be welcomed by the ad industry  
Twitter IPO should be welcomed by the ad industry
The long-awaited floatation of Twitter should be a positive step for the advertising industry.
 
News Corp's drawbridge mentality locks in value, but there's another way  
News Corp's drawbridge mentality locks in value, but there's another way
News Corp's move to eliminate third party ad networks is understandable, but other publishers can extract more value by simply reducing the number of ads that run on their sites, says Guy Cookson, co-founder of native ad provider Respond.
 
The Muppets and biscuit tins - a snapshot of the Royal Baby story  
The Muppets and biscuit tins - a snapshot of the Royal Baby story
The recent Royal christening capped off what is likely to be the last spike of activity around the Royal Baby - and with it the final opportunity for brands to use the royals to plant themselves firmly in front of a captivated, patriotic audience and further up our timelines.
 
The definitive lowdown on Facebook's Q3 performance  
The definitive lowdown on Facebook's Q3 performance
Ron Schott, head of Spring Creek at IPG Mediabrands gets behind the numbers of Facebook's Q3 earnings this week.
 
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