[Video] Can Forbes Survive A Media 2.0 World ?

February 26, 2010

Forbes can not survive with only cheap Internet ads, publisher Rich Karlgaard admits

How long can Forbes magazine survive?

Last year, the cash-strapped company chopped 40% of its staff (about 100 employees) in an effort to stay profitable.

And just last month, it sold off its 125,000-square foot Greenwich Village headquarters to NYU for $65 million.

In total, in the past 6 years, Forbes raised over $600 million to save its far-flung empire.

At yesterday’s Churchill Club event, Forbes publisher and Club co-founder Rich Karlgaard provided a candid assessment of the media group’s struggle to survive in the new digital economy dominated by Google’s cheap performance-based advertising.

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Olympics Rallies Online Sports Traffic; Yahoo Benefits With Big Score

October 3, 2008
Beijing Olympics

Beijing Olympics

No surprise here. Checking online sports results has long been one of the major lures of the Internet.

But the size of the August increase was impressive: a 26 percent jump in visitors to online sports sites from work computers, according to Nielsen Online. That brought total visitors to 42.3 million from 33.4 million in August 2007.

NBC Olympics had lots of activity, as expected. Twenty percent of the at-work surfers came to the site and stayed for long periods – an average of 57 minutes. (I’m sure that helped them accomplish a lot at the office.)

But other locations did well. Nielsen said many were helped by interest in college and fantasy football. Here are the top sites:

Company (by size) Traffic Increase

Yahoo! Sports           112%
ESPN                     16%
FOX Sports on MSN        13%
SI Digital Sites         66%
CBS Sports               12%
NFL Internet Network     23%
MLB.com                  -1%
AOL Sports                2%
Fantasy Sports Ventures 285%

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