29 posts and columns on Adweek

Google Says Forced “Sharing” Is a Bug, Not a Feature

in Media on May 15 at 11:38 am PT

No, you don’t have to spam that AdWeek story to your pals before you read it. But somebody’s gotta pay something for this stuff, someday.
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Nobody Rides for Free

We need to ask how do we regulate the Internet? You can’t have a market without property rights. The idea that you’ll have no enforcement should be greeted with laughter. I’m not seeing any alternative come out.

— Robert Levine, author of “Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back,” in conversation with Katy Bachman of Adweek

Rupert Murdoch Expert Michael Wolff Knows Nothing About Baseball. Just Ask Him! (Video)

in Media on July 14, 2011 at 8:54 am PT

In which the BBC gets very, very confused, to great comic effect. Watch!
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A Video Guaranteed to Not Stop Music Pirates

in Media on October 20, 2010 at 12:44 pm PT

The music piracy horse left the barn about 10 years ago. But if the music labels really wanted to try to get it back, Gilbert Gottfried rants probably aren’t the way to go.

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Latest NBC Cancellation: Google Ad Partnership

in News on October 13, 2010 at 3:20 pm PT

Google’s rocky efforts to extend its online advertising prowess into old media hit another big bump with confirmation today that NBC Universal was pulling out of a two-year-old partnership under which Google brokered ad sales for some of its cable networks. Sources tell Adweek that neither the networks nor the advertisers were bowled over by the service or the results.

Here's a Story About Rupert Murdoch, the New York Post and Michael Wolff

in Media on October 4, 2010 at 11:01 am PT

One thing that journalists hate more than getting scooped: Getting scooped on stories they already know about. Just ask News Corp. employee Keith Kelly.

Nike’s Not-So-Secret World Cup Ads Go Viral Before They Launch

in Media on May 21, 2010 at 4:53 am PT

The World Cup starts next month. And Nike’s ad blitz starts tomorrow. On the Web, though, the ads are already a hit.

Condé Nast’s iPad Plan Gets Caught in the Apple-Adobe Crossfire

in Media on February 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

The Wired iPad app Condé Nast showed off this month looks great. But the chances that the publisher will give its other magazines the same treatment don’t look promising–unless Apple and Adobe can figure out their Flash problem. Anyone want to bet on that?

Homage to Apple Actually AdWeek’s “Best of the 2000s” Awards

in News on December 15, 2009 at 7:44 am PT

“People talk about technology, but Apple was a marketing company,” former Apple CEO John Sculley told the Guardian in 1997. “It was the marketing company of the decade.” Evidently that’s as true today as it was 12 years ago, because Apple has won a bundle of AdWeek’s “Best of the Decade” awards.
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Verizon on AT&T Suit: There’s a Word for That. “Junk.”

in News on November 5, 2009 at 1:36 pm PT

If AT&T’s lawsuit over Verizon’s allegedly misleading “there’s a map for that” ad wasn’t a public relations mistake to begin with, it will be by the time Verizon gets through with it. Responding to the suit today, Verizon rep Jeffrey Nelson used it to stoke public perception that AT&T’s network is inferior to Verizon’s.
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Here Comes the Google Ad Exchange

in Media, September 15, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

How to Kill the Rest of Your Friday

in Media, July 10, 2009 at 12:25 pm PT

Google: Less Unhappy Days Are Here Again

in Media, June 26, 2009 at 10:03 am PT

Super Bowl Ads Web 2.0 Roundup: Watch, Tweet and Widget

in News, January 31, 2009 at 9:21 pm PT

[UPDATE] Time Inc. Layoffs: Publishers, Top Execs at Southern Progress and Cooking Light Out

in Media, November 19, 2008 at 8:38 am PT