Top HeadlinesYouTube notched a major victory in its long-running copyright suit with Google. A New York judge emphatically rejected Viacom's theory that YouTube had "red flag" knowledge that made it liable for content uploaded by its users. Read More »Google posted reports that came close to analyst expectations. CEO Larry Page talked up the Google's more exotic products and dismissed questions about resource allocation and the impact of Facebook's Home screen on mobile. Read More »NBC may be ready to rethink its stance towards Google TV, and make its content available for free on the platform through a native app. Read More »Congress and even some tech companies are promising to get serious about "Do Not Track" legislation, which will let consumers tell companies not to collect their personal information. But any meaningful change is unlikely. Read More »At our paidContent Live conference in New York, we heard about the disruption in publishing, journalism and advertising from speakers such as Alan Rusbridger of The Guardian, Jon Steinberg of BuzzFeed and blogger Andrew Sullivan. Read More »When was the last time you logged into LinkedIn's mobile app as a way of browsing the news or killing time? You might not have given the app much thought before, but the company's recent push toward news might change this. Read More »From PaidContent Live 2013, we brought you five different entrepreneurs who talked about ways in which they are changing up business models for media and the ways in which people consume content. Read More »Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia wants to disrupt TV pricing again, this time by rolling out movie and news packages at a fraction of the price of traditional ones. News, he said, might even be free. Read More »There's more than one way to the top of the elite blogging ladder. Here's lessons from four bloggerati that made it there. Read More »"Native advertising" is on the lips of everyone in publishing and advertising these days. Blogger and skeptic Felix Salmon asked executives from BuzzFeed and Forbes what it really means. Read More »How are book publishers learning more about our evolving reading habits? Not surprisingly, ebook publishers are turning the industry toward thinking more about making data-driven decisions. Read More »Brands claim they're taking to social media, but they're really inserting ads into other people social engagement streams -- not engaging themsleves, says the founder of the Dachis Group. Read More »The debate between using native or web apps for content still rages on. Three content providers share their thoughts at paidContent 2013 to provide the definitive answer for which to use and when. Read More »Looking to find the best blog posts on Tumblr? The company isn't interested in telling you which blogs are the best, but it does want to improve the overall discovery process -- and help the best bloggers find financial success. Read More »The Guardian's expansion into the U.S. is on track, editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger said Wednesday, with traffic up by 37 percent last year. For now, there are no plans for a paywall. Read More »The media elite increasingly belongs to digital only entities. Look under the hood of some of these new power brokers, and you'll see an unprecedented amount of ordinary people shaping the news. Read More »If YouTube views were a currency, then The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur would be a billionaire. Here's how he got to one billion YouTube views with news. Read More »The world is ending for traditional media companies, but new players who ignore the rules, and bet on mobile, will prevail, argues Huffington Post Co-Founder and Buzzfeed Chairman Kenneth Lerer. Read More »Ev Williams' content creation platform Medium has made its first acquisition: Matter, the Kickstarter-backed science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM reporter Bobbie Johnson last year. Read More »You'll find our live coverage of paidContent Live 2013 here, as media veterans and entrepreneurs gather in New York to talk about the impact of all media becoming digital. Read More » |