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:Apps
Publishers seem to have no end to their appetite for apps. This year through October, 9,125 publication-related apps were released for the iPad, twice the number released in the year-ago…
"Hot" is, of course, relative. We reserve the designation for those media brands and media people thriving despite competition, market forces and that bugaboo of every business: the ever elusive…
Specs Age 47 New gig Evp of mobile and social games, GSN Digital Old gig Evp, chief marketing and revenue officer, Zynga Why did you leave the gaming giant Zynga for its competitor, GSN…
Specs Age 45 Accomplishments Stars on ABC’s Suburgatory; Saturday Night Live cast member from 1996 to 2002 (famous characters included Martha Stewart and Celine Dion) Base New York and Los Angeles What’s the first…
"You’ll notice we’ve got lots of electronics around—most of which we’ve taken apart,” says New York Times R&D Lab creative technologist Alexis Lloyd, casually sidestepping two turquoise exercise balls. Walking…
Clear Channel’s streaming service iHeartRadio is turning up the volume in an aggressive bid to take on red-hot Spotify and Pandora. Over the past six months, Clear Channel’s digital service has…
Producing a high-quality print app is tricky. It has to have enough interactivity to hook a reader, but not so much that it overwhelms them. It needs compelling information, attractive…
How do people choose to read on a tablet, and how do they actually read once they choose? Poynter conducted eye-track testing on 36 people during the summer of 2012…
In-store shoppers are using their smartphones like never before. So it may come as little surprise that big-box retailers are rolling out a plethora of mobile bells and whistles just…
For several weeks, Adweek has polled readers, collected audience and advertising data, and otherwise gauged brand performance and relevance to arrive at this short list of the hottest media properties.…
