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  • June 2008

    • NBC's Olympic Ad Sales Lag

      New York Post  |  Jun 4, 08 2:19 PM CDT

      NBC's Olympic Ad Sales Lag

      (Newser) - With the Beijing Games just more than two months away, NBC is still well short of Olympics advertising sales goals, the New York Post reports. Though the network says sales are strong, sources say it's between $150 million and $300 million off, with pro-Tibet protests and the slow economy keeping advertisers on the sidelines ahead of the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • advertising  • NBC  • Olympic Games  • TV networks  • advertising sales

    • Surprise, Webheads: Newspaper Sales Are Up

      Associated Press  |  Jun 2, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Surprise, Webheads: Newspaper Sales Are Up

      (Newser) - Newspaper circulation is up worldwide despite slipping numbers in the US and Europe, the AP reports. Officials at a worldwide newspaper conference said today that India and China are leading the 2.6% increase, thanks to higher literacy, incomes, and more leisure time. "They say newspapers and print are dead," one official said. "Well, I just don't see it." More »

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      Internet  • newspaper  • Associated Press  • advertising sales  • online newspapers  • circulation

  • April 2008

    • Rosy Q1 for Google

      Bloomberg  |  Apr 17, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Rosy Q1 for Google

      (Newser) - Google reported a 30% increase in first-quarter profits today, bettering analysts’ predictions and sending share prices up 17%, Bloomberg reports. Forecasters had assumed that growth in domestic advertising clicks would slow, but Google said it “remains healthy;” a 55% increase in international ad sales gave the search giant the bump it needed to exceed expectations. More »

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      Google  • Wall Street  • ad revenue  • quarterly profits  • share price  • advertising sales  • foreign currency

  • March 2008

    • Atlantic Denies Going Tabloid

      Advertising Age  |  Mar 12, 08 4:59 PM CDT

      Atlantic Denies Going Tabloid

      (Newser) - Loyal Atlantic subscribers are in for a shock: Britney Spears graces the April cover. Though the magazine has showcased Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart, the prime real estate granted to the pop-tart has some questioning the effect dropping advertising and newsstand sales are having on the venerable journal's direction—and how such changes affect other magazines on the remake. More »

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      Britney Spears  • advertising  • media  • magazine  • ad revenue  • print journalism  • advertising sales  • The Atlantic

    • As AOL Looks for Answers, Time Warner Hopes for Deal

      New York Times  |  Mar 12, 08 1:08 PM CDT

      As AOL Looks for Answers, Time Warner Hopes for Deal

      (Newser) - AOL’s efforts at launching an Internet ad-sales business—dubbed Platform A—continue to stumble, the New York Times reports. Parent Time Warner Monday fired another exec and yesterday said it’s willing to combine AOL with another company to jump-start the moribund division it’s already spent $1 billion on. Ex-AOLers say the one-time Internet giant is self-destructing. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • Microsoft  • Yahoo  • Time Warner  • AOL  • advertising sales  • Jeffrey Bewkes  • dial-up Internet  • spinoff

    • Facebook Poaches COO From Google

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 4, 08 3:35 PM CST

      Facebook Poaches COO From Google

      (Newser) - Facebook has hired the Google VP who handles virtually all advertising sales in a bid to ease the hiccups the rapidly expanding networking site is encountering. New COO Sheryl Sandberg, one of Silicon Valley's top female execs, denied that Google's plummeting stock price motivated the move, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • online advertising  • Silicon Valley  • Mark Zuckerberg  • advertising sales  • Sheryl Sandberg

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