Mediagazer: Conde Nast Edges Further Into Selling Videos on Demand (Nat Ives/AdAge)

6:10 PM ET, October 1, 2010

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Hunter Walker / The Wrap:

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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

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Nat Ives / AdAge:

Conde Nast Edges Further Into Selling Videos on Demand — You Don't Need the App Store to Try Charging for Content — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast, which is trying to reorient its business away from an overwhelming dependence on ad pages, is moving further into paid content online …

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Ben Smith / The Politico:

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:

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Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

Online Video: Immediate, Powerful, Elemental — TED Conference curator Chris Anderson gave his own TED talk in July, just released in September, entitled “How web video powers global innovation.” Anderson's talk focused on the effect of online video on science, art, and education …

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Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

Google: “Currency” of Online Video Advertising Will Shift to “Cost Per View” as YouTube Readies “TrueViews” — NEW YORK — The “currency” of online advertisnig will shift from the current CPM model of cost per impression, to a “cost-per-view” model in which advertisers only pay for the ads which are watched …

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John Boitnott / VentureBeat:

Is it too late for a Digg comeback? — Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.

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J-Lab:

New Voices: What Works — J-Lab has funded community news startups since 2005, when the movement to launch independent hyperlocal news websites began in earnest. To date, we've seeded the launch of 55 “New Voices” experiments - with encouraging support from the Knight Foundation.

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