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"The app will not only contain the songs, but is also expected to be "completely interactive with chats, films for every song, extra music, content, gaga inspired games, fashion updates, magazines, and more." " It sounds like a great idea and while we're not sure if this will combat piracy in the music industry, it might offer enough content for fans to justify paying for the app rather than just downloading it illegally.

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A recent study from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth has found the adoption of social media usage among Fortune 500 companies has leveled off. Across multiple industries, usage of Twitter, Facebook and blogs in 2011 is level with or below that of 2010.

And the talk is more than just about launching a Web show. Rather, Twitter is said to be aiming towards changing the way people consume and discover media. "We're talking about building content on top of Twitter," said another industry insider. "That's a big deal." Twitter wouldn't be developing the content, but would instead serve as a distribution vehicle and advertising middleman. Besides looking to shake up the media space, Twitter has a more obvious motivation for getting into the series game. It regularly sells out of inventory for its core ad units like Promoted Tweets. "Right now, they are leaving money on the table," said one source.

Flimmer's preliminary homepage includes the tagline "Earn Per View", and local media reports have quoted the company as saying it is "the first film portal where the user is rewarded for paying attention to the trailer". It all sounds a bit confusing, and Flimmer's press spokesman wasn't available for comment, so we'll just have to wildly guess that it's some kind of breakthrough in the evolution of the content industry. Or not.

In a reversal of today's content publishing model, print magazines pretty soon could start looking a lot like their app equivalents. "The next redesign of our titles will see them redesigned with our tablet versions in mind," magazine publisher Future's tablet editor-in-chief Mike Goldsmith told an industry forum this month. As publishers extend their print titles to iPad, they can choose either to repurpose the paper originals, which can seem lazy and ill-suited to the touch screen, or to custom-produce interactive apps with a native interface in mind, which is expensive.

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Tencent Holdings is China's biggest internet company, with 430 million users.  China's online advertising market expanded more than 40% to $4.2 billion last year, according to Media Partners Asia. The industry may exceed $10 billion by 2015, it said. Tencent CEO Ma Huateng is wooing that money by shifting his focus from personal computers to mobile devices.

The advertising and technology industries, which have been under pressure to do more to ensure privacy, said they would support a "Do Not Track" mechanism that would be clearly and uniformly adopted by browser vendors and would allow consumers to opt out of having some companies, but not all, keep data on their online activities.

In terms of video completion and engagement rates, opt-in video ads see 98 percent and 3.5 percent respectively, while industry averages are just 64 percent and 1.2 percent. Jun Group found that Facebook engagement fell 9 percent over the year, while advertiser website visits shot up by more than 20 percent. In particular, consumers are utilizing website features like store locators and coupons. Facebook remains the most popular form of interaction with 31 percent of overall engagement, but advertiser site visits are now nipping at the social networks heels at 28 percent.

"The number of U.S. TV households fell by 500,000, reflecting the popularity of online viewing and results of the 2010 census" "We have had no household formation over the past several years, and I believe there is a modest amount of cord-cutting happening in younger households and in lower-income households," said Paul Sweeney, Bloomberg Industries' director of North American research.

"predicts mobile games could drive the whole game software industry's revenues to $100 billion by 2017, making it one of the most lucrative sectors for entertainment and software. He said the mobile and online game sectors could grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23.6 percent to $60 billion by 2017."

A threat to the telecom industry. Web apps like Facebook and WhatsApp erode the need for "wireless data plans" which are the primary source of revenue for wireless carriers.

Maybe are next "monthly" should be on 3D printing?

Interesting article overall. I think the author is specifically focused on journalism as I don't think that 95% of media helps anyone make better life decisions;-)