Category Archives: Yahoo!

MediaWeek: Web Publishers Divided Over Value of Charging

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Erm, it's not just the BBC that won't be charging for content you know: "Besides Yahoo, neither MSNBC.com, CBSNews.com, nor CNET are likely to implement any paid structure. CNN.com has made no moves in this direction. Even ESPN.com, which has long maintained a small paid subscription service with its ESPN Insider product, isn’t likely to change its online approach."

Business Insider: From Celeb Pics To The WSJ, News Corp Will Charge For Everything Online (NWS)

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"[Rupert Murdoch] overestimates the value of celebrity scoops. TMZ broke the story of Michael Jackson's death. We know this because we watch the Web publishing space obsessively. Most people don't. TMZ got a lot of traffic breaking the story -- 33% over its previous record. But Yahoo, which was even a little late to the story, crushed it too, setting all-time record in unique visitors with 16.4 million people. Yahoo's front page story “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital” saw 800,000 clicks in 10 minutes."

Nieman Journalism Lab: Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times

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"A link at the top of [Yahoo]’s front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper. ... But as we’ve seen with other news sites, the huge spike didn’t produce much advertising revenue — or, at least, not the copious coin you might expect from traffic at a rate of 7,300 hits per second. That’s because the Times could only serve cheap, remnant ads to its unanticipated visitors."

AP: AP eyeing better deals with Internet heavyweights

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"Besides hammering out new Internet licensing contracts, the AP also plans to review more effective ways to capture revenue from advertising tied to its stories, photography, audio and video, [Chief Executive Tom Curley] said. One way could be through a new system that will bundle some of the AP's top stories with those of newspapers and broadcasters on certain topics. The system, which is still under development, would rely on so-called "landing pages" that could compete with the news sections run by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN."

Mashable: Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments

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"Mashable is announcing an exclusive partnership with the blog comment service Disqus with regard to their integration of the comment aggregation service UberVU. For the next two weeks, you’ll be able to test Disqus-powered social media comments exclusively on Mashable, getting a glimpse at what both companies think is the future of blog comments."

CurryBet: Mumbai terrorist attacks show that search engines still can’t get breaking news right

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Martin Belam: "We are used to hearing that search engines are one of the primary routes that people find news on the net, but I've just been having a scout around the three major search engines as news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai unfolds, and I have to say that they are not performing very well."