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Axe Falls at Allbritton’s TBD.com

Performance Marketing

Allbritton Communications has had some big success with Politico, but has its latest Web experiment already fallen on its face? In a major turnabout for TBD.com, the site Allbritton launched just [...]


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Michael Wolff: AOL-HuffPo Milestone Duly Noted

Performance Marketing

The content rollup has begun. Say this for Tim Armstrong: He’s stayed on message, turning his inchoate business into a potentially reasonable collection of content assets—a manly bid to save [...]

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AOL Acquires The Huffington Post

Performance Marketing

In a blockbuster move aimed at reinventing the company, AOL has acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million. As part of the stunning agreement, Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington [...]

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Editorial Off the Charts

Performance Marketing

On Jan. 28, as the protests in Egypt escalated, Mohamed Nanabhay—who runs Al Jazeera’s English Web site—noticed traffic was exploding using a real-time analytics tool called chartbeat. By the end [...]

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Newsweek, MSNBC Sever Traffic Ties

Performance Marketing

One of the supposed advantages of the combined NewsBeast was that The Daily Beast would get the benefit of Newsweek’s much bigger audience.  Now, it looks like that advantage is [...]

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Hulu and Viacom Make Amends, Expand Partnership

Convergent TV

Viacom and Hulu are back in business together. After yanking the popular Comedy Central shows The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report off the video site last [...]