Paid Content

Few can question the rise of digital media, but arguably just as few can tell you who's leading the pack. But paidContent did just that, ranking th...

"The fact is, it's almost impossible to find a single 'content' company on the web that maintains a horseshit:quality ratio better than 10:1," notes T...

MONACO -- Apps will "reshape paid content" in a "profound way," says Thomas Kunstner, partner at Booz and the leader of the firm's European media pr...

MONACO -- For publishers to succeed in the fast changing media environment, digital content must be universally accessed, irrespective of the device...

While the debate goes on around paid versus free access to content, Zagat sees an upside in the emergence of Apps for smartphones as a sustainable and growing revenue source.

In this tumultuous age in media industry, it is delightful to find successful experiments in the field. I found a fascinating initiative at Aftonblade...

Realizing that fans' creative energy can increase awareness and sales, marketers are giving more control of brands to consumers with campaigns like Mountain Dew's Dewmocracy and Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest.

The MPA's daily news feed spots a post in the Guardian's "Organ Grinder" blog about Rebekah Brooks, Chief Executive of Rupert Murdoch's News Internati...

Murdoch is right: we can be blind to what is real and valuable. What's real and valuable is that we are awash in content.

The new Aol mark featuring lower case "o" and "l" and a dot at the end does a nice job of cracking open the brand for a new look.

Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington clashed with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner Thursday at the Monaco Media Forum. Huffington and ...

Unless we are all willing to settle for user generated content of various and dubious quality, how will we get that great content we've grown used to?

It's not especially difficult to take $3 billion worth of product and give it away successfully online to the delight of millions of users. The question is how to make money from that give-away.

Information is abundant and free; collating the threads of its different parts becomes the scarce source of value. It may interest us all to know that this was the premise of Time Magazine when it was founded.

As a drug, news aggregators are a wonderful alternative to the real thing. The danger to News Corp and others, of course, is that without them reality may bite.

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

Newspapers can't buy a break; not only are fewer people reading them, it appears curbing a newspaper appetite may be good for you.

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it's considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newsp...

Every time media companies take a step or two towards the invisible fence line surrounding the free content playground online, the dog collar starts spitting electrodes.