blogs hit the Jewmassmedia in the pocketbook

[Antiochus Epiphanes]

Take that Jewkikes!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._cmp/170702585

Report: Blogs and Free Content Are Hurting B2B Publishers By Thomas Claburn
Mon Sep 12, 8:00 PM ET



The news and trade market is in for some rough weather, according to report released Monday by researchers at Outsell, Inc. Traditional segment leaders--newspaper companies and business trade publishers--face disruption from online competitors such as Google and Yahoo.

"News and trade services are two of the most severely impacted markets hit by the dynamo that is the search world," says Chuch Richard, VP and lead analyst at Outsell, a research and advisory firm.

Revenue for the news and trade market reached $89.5 billion in 2004, up 8.7 percent from 2003. Outsell predicts growth of perhaps half that in 2005.

While the segment should continue to expand, Outsell's Market View report finds that individual user spending on B2B content between 2001 and 2005 fell 15%. "Users are finding alternatives to paid N&T [news and trade] sources: mostly ad-supported content and user-created content from blogs."

For traditional N&T companies, the problem is that ad revenue per user is much higher in print than online. So as audiences migrate online, there's less ad revenue per user.

Richard expects online ads will become more valuable and print ads will become less so. "In the long run, people will value online ads more and as they reallocate their budgets, it will drive down the cost of print ads," he says.

N&T companies, meanwhile, are likely to continue acquiring online shopping, social networking, and blogging-related companies in an effort to expand their businesses online.

Good. We need more readers.

I saw Murray Rothstein formally split up CBS off from MTV in the Viacom structure. He can see "the writing on the internet". TV news is of course plummeting too. Murray also bought a big video game company. Things are changing.

[Antiochus Epiphanes]

Originally Posted by Chain

Good. We need more readers.

I saw Murray Rothstein formally split up CBS off from MTV in the Viacom structure. He can see "the writing on the internet". TV news is of course plummeting too. Murray also bought a big video game company. Things are changing.

they also announced a launch of an HDTV Mtv channel today. narrow segmentation on cable is also a "wave of the future"