Dec 04 2008
DAILY ROUND-UP – 12.04.08
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- Yahoo is getting out of the stand-alone Internet radio business. It has reached an agreement with CBS Radio for the operation and ad-sales operations for LAUNCHcast radio channel. Yahoo employees will continue to handle programming. According to this report in the WSJ, the decision was driven, in part, by rising royalty rates for streaming music.
- Here’s an interesting piece from Advertising Age discussing the use of widgets in advertising and marketing campaigns. The upshot: the surface is only beginning to be scratched.
- A piece in the New York Times Bits blog discusses how YouTube’s slogan “Broadcast Yourself” can also, inadvertently, mean “Broadcast Your Taste in Videos.” Apparently by suscribing to a YouTube channel, your user name and picture are posted on the channel page, for all the world to see. And there is no wasy to keep your subscription private. We will have a longer post on these type of privacy issues soon. Stay tuned.
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