11 posts and columns on Jim Lanzone

CBS Shuffles CNET Editors

in News on June 17, 2011 at 1:09 pm PT

More management changes at CBS’ digital arm: Veteran editor Dan Farber is once again running CNET News, a position he last held in 2008.
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TV.com Head Anthony Soohoo Leaves CBS

in Media on March 9, 2011 at 8:12 am PT

More bodies moving around at CBS’ digital division: Last week, the broadcaster bought Clicker.com for a reported $100 million, and put its CEO Jim Lanzone in charge of CBS Interactive. Today, CBS Interactive entertainment head Anthony Soohoo says he’s leaving.

Another TV Guide for Web Video! But Shufflr Wants Your Friends to Do the Work

in Media on November 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

So let’s say you do want to watch Web video from your couch. Who’s going to find the good stuff for you? A new start-up says it can–by getting you and your friends to do the heavy lifting.

Clicker's Jim Lanzone Talks About TV on the Web (And Shows Off L.A. Digs)

in News on April 15, 2010 at 6:58 am PT

During my recent sojourn in Los Angeles, BoomTown dropped in on the Melrose Avenue HQ of Clicker, the Web site trying to make search sense of premium video on the Web. I had a chat with Jim Lanzone, former CEO of fourth-ranked search engine Ask about whether such a service could survive with giants like Google around. He is certainly trying to differentiate Clicker, which aims to steer clear of both copyright issues and huge bandwidth costs by simply being a helpful friend to consumers in search of good video.

More Money for Web Video? Sure: Clicker Raises Another $11 Million.

in Media on February 18, 2010 at 6:01 am PT

How do you launch a Web video start-up without getting crushed by lawsuits and bandwidth bills? Launch a Web video search engine. That’s the thesis behind Clicker, a would-be TV Guide for Web video, which has raised an $11 million B round led by JAFCO Ventures, with participation from earlier investors Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures. The funding follows an $8 million round announced last fall that was actually raised in 2008.

Yahoo Brings In–Drum Roll, Please–a Former Microsoft Exec to Head U.S. Ad Sales

in News on September 9, 2008 at 7:43 am PT

In what is both a surprising and not-so-surprising move, Yahoo has replaced its top U.S. ad sales exec with one from Microsoft. The departure of Dave Karnstedt, who took over last year when longtime Yahoo ad sales exec Wenda Millard left Yahoo in the first of many controversial partings, has been long rumored internally. Karnstedt will join Redpoint Ventures and is being replaced by Joanne Bradford, a longtime and well-known Microsoft exec who decamped from the software giant to helm national ad sales at the trendy start-up Spot Runner just six months ago.

Former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone Speaks!

in News on February 21, 2008 at 3:28 am PT

BoomTown had a lovely lunch yesterday with Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask, the little search engine that, well, tries, at least. Lanzone had been at the company, which is owned by Barry Diller’s InteractiveCorp (IACI), for more than a half-dozen years, before stepping down in January in a management reshuffle at the company that [...]

Post Traumatic CES Syndrome

in News on January 10, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

The Algorithm With the Lead Pipe in the Lounge

in News on January 10, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Barry Diller may have managed to turn Fox into a legitimate fourth major broadcast network. But he hasn’t had much luck doing the same thing with Ask.com in search. Despite Diller’s best efforts, Ask’s share of the search market dropped to 4.6% in November from 5% in November 2006, according to comScore. “We have certainly [...]

The Algorithm Needs More Market Share

in News on June 5, 2007 at 8:31 am PT

Like its “algorithm” ad campaign, Ask.com’s redesign is certainly getting its fair share of attention, but will it gain the company some market share as well? Because as the inveterate fifth-place contestant in what’s rapidly becoming Google’s one-player market, Ask could certainly use it. Dubbed “Ask 3D,” the company’s redesign seems at once an answer [...]