 | | | | Friday • July 18, 2008 | READ ALL NEWS AT ADAGE.COM | | Online Ad Growth May Be Losing Momentum Internet Giants' Latest Financial Reports Not as Spectacular as Wall Street Expected DIGITAL SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- Three months ago it seemed as though the internet advertising industry could get through this tough economy relatively unscathed. But in what may be a bad sign for a seemingly recession-resistant sector, several internet companies have reported relatively disappointing earnings.  FULL ARTICLE
| | HBO Invites Vampire Fans to Savor 'True Blood' Bizarre Beverage Ads Just One of Many Ploys to Lure Viewers MADISON & VINE NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Launched quietly May 21, HBO's campaign for "True Blood" aims to tantalize fans with a multitude of details about the fall drama's strange new world, where the development of a synthetic blood product in Japan has allowed vampires to "come out" of their coffins, so to speak. FULL ARTICLE | | Ex-AOLers Set Up Documentary Film Site Plan to Lure Filmmakers by Splitting Ad Revenue
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Former AOL executives are looking to get into the online-video market by setting up a site to stream documentary feature films. SnagFilms, headed by longtime AOL Vice Chairman Emeritus Ted Leonsis, eschews traditional video domains such as AOL and Microsoft's MSN, instead adopting a YouTube-esque route and allowing users to embed films on their own web pages or Facebook and MySpace pages. FULL ARTICLE | | Emmy Nominations Follow Wednesday of Too Much Reality 11 of 13 Prime-time Hours Weren't Scripted Shows RASH REPORT MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- The Emmy Awards nominations were covered live Thursday morning, following mere hours after Wednesday night's prime time featured some version of reality show in 11 of the 13 available hours. FULL ARTICLE | | Grey Skies Aren't Clearing Up; Away with Happy Faces A Brief History of WSJ's Stipple Portraits
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The economy may not be in a recession, technically speaking, but the news is somber enough that Wall Street Journal articles seem to require new, gloomier versions of its famed pointillist portraits, as in the before and after ones of Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, as CJR.com noted. Here's a collection of other events in the stipple portraits history. FULL ARTICLE | |
What You Should Have Read, July 18, 2008
Cable Series in Running for Emmys
The New York Times notes that the unveiling of the Emmy nominations this week adds more fuel to the argument that much of the best creative work in the medium is now being done on cable, and to the perception that shows do not necessarily need big audiences to be celebrated by the TV academy. That point was underscored by the emergence of the little-watched (but much written about) series "Mad Men" on the cable channel AMC, which received nominations in the categories of best drama, best actor (Jon Hamm), best direction, best writing (two episodes from the series creator, Matthew Weiner), best supporting actor (John Slattery) and best guest actor (Robert Morse). No other drama on television received as many major nominations. See who else won nominations. FULL ARTICLE | | > > Read All News at AdAge.com | | | | |
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