Reuters reports that the British Broadcasting Corp. is bringing its BBC World news channel to the U.S. in a bid to capture American audiences hungry for international news. Reuters says:
… Read the restAmerican cable news and broadcast networks have pulled back in their international news coverage, creating an opportunity for the BBC, said Jeremy Hillman, the new editor of BBC World and the outgoing New York bureau chief.
Bill Tancer at Hitwise referenced a drive-time radio news story asserting that Hurricane Katrina has led to increased concern and preparedness for the 2006 Hurricane season which starts today. He offers the chart below showing search term breadth: searches for all terms containing "hurricane" over a fifteen-month period. … Read the rest
…and that’s the title of my latest OnlineSpin column in MediaPost…
Social media may be riding a wave of hype right now, but nobody can deny that it is forcing traditional media companies and marketers to rethink what the media business is all about.… Read the rest
I’m probably the last one to point to this Pew research, but it’s important because it came from Pew, Lee Rainie at Pew Internet does good work, and people tend to pay attention to Pew. Pew says:
… Read the restAdoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005.
The MP3 recording of the recent Skypecast I did with Chris Tolles of Topix.net and my colleague Pete Blackshaw is now available here. This was a tease to the Innovative Marketing Conference that Prof. Bernd Schmitt of Columbia University is producing with Francois Gossieaux of Corante June 8-9.… Read the rest
