In Other Industry News Today April 27, 2009
Posted by Mark Blei in : Uncategorized , trackback- Yahoo finally Announced it would close their Geocities service and close out all Geocities websites. Giving current customers the option to upgrade to one of the Yahoo! small business or other paid non Geocities accounts- See their press release HERE
- MarketingVox had an interesting article on a study by Forrester Research saying that Interactive Advertising is still growing- See Their Article HERE
- Research firm ComScore was downgraded from a buy to a hold position by Needham, based on valuation and a high YTD Churn rate or the rate of which customers unsubscribe or leave. This according to briefing.com, will most likely to affect their Q2 revenue results as the ComScore model had predicted a slight improvement. See MSN article HERE
- Possibly in light of the fact that analysts like Zenith Optimedia are predicting that newspaper in 2009 may well see a loss of nearly 12% in print advertisements See HERE the New York Times is once again considering a paid subscription model in order to bring up revenue. NYT Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. seemed to suggest to shareholders at its 113th annual meeting Thursday the advertiser-supported online model is not going to change soon. See Both Marketingvox and Adweek covered the story See Adweeks coverage which I quoted from HERE
By Mark Blei compiled by various sources.
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