Kim Dotcom To Host Mega’s Launch Event At His New Mega Zealand Mansion Next Month | TechCrunch

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“Kim Dotcom doesn’t do things small. The man behind the Megaupload empire is about to launch his next service dubbed simply Mega. But don’t expect a simple press event in a hotel conference room.”

 

Kim Dotcom doesn’t do things small. The man behind the Megaupload empire is about to launch his next service dubbed simply Mega. But don’t expect a simple press event in a hotel conference room. Nope, on January 20, 2013, exactly one year after his over-the-top takedown, Dotcom is hosting the Mega launch event at his sprawling New Zealand estate — effectively giving the finger to the RIAA, MPAA, and the shady US Justice Department.

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Members of the media who like to be at the press conference of the EPIC Mega launch at the Dotcom Mansion pls register: mega.co.nz/press/

27 Dec 12

Dotcom has promised to return bigger than ever after a ridiculous show of force involving New Zealand’s special police and the U.S. Justice Department. He has teased parts of the upcoming Mega service several times. It’s unclear if Mega will reach the sheer numbers of its predecessor, Megaupload, but a massive, extravagant launch event is the best way to give the service a pop right out of the gate.

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Google News Crumbles, And More 2013 Media Predictions – Forbes

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Guest post written by Ashley Harrison Ashley Harrison is CEO of the social news reader and publishing platform Taptu, a unit of Mediafed.”

 

With the digital and mobile era clearly setting in across the global landscape, media is continuing to transform. With new doors opening and others closing nearly everyday in the world of publishing, 2013 will be the year that mobile consumption finally raises the bar on both advertising and publishing in the digital age. Here are five predictions for how digital media will unfold in 2013:

Advertisers and publishers will take note as mobile devices will become the #1 way to read news.R.I.P. iOS magazine apps.Google News will start to fade as publishers seek profits.Revenue of news distribution on mobile devices will make up a third of all digital publishing.The ‘Super Blog’ will take over.

As smartphones and tablets begin to overthrow PCs, advertisers and publishers alike are stuck in a search for a way to hit their target audience and still generate revenue.

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/26/google-news-crumbles-and-more-2013-media-predictions

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MediaPost Publications Mag Bag: 2012 Was A Tough Year For Magazines 12/28/2012

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Mag Bag: 2012 Was A Tough Year For Magazines – 12/28/2012

 

2012 Was A Tough Year For Magazines

2009 was miserable. 2010 wasn’t much better. 2011 was a little bit worse. And 2012 looks to be, in a word, crappy.
 
Magazines can’t seem to catch a break, as the ongoing transition to digital media continues to undermine print advertising, still the main source of revenue for most big publishers. According to the Publishers Information Bureau, total ad pages fell 8.6% in the first nine months of 2012, compared to the same period last year.

That follows a decline of 3.2% for the full year 2011, which followed a flat 2010, which looked positively spectacular compared to drops of 25.6% in 2009 and 11.6% in 2008 — blows from which the industry has never recovered.
 
Indeed, taking a somewhat longer perspective, the total number of ad pages at publications tracked by PIB has fallen from 179,339 in the first three quarters of 2006 to 110,483 in the first three quarters of 2012. That’s a 38.4% drop in six years — not quite as bad as the newspaper business, where revenues are down by half, but a steep enough decline to prompt New York Times media columnist David Carr to warn in August: “Now, like newspapers, they seem to have reached the edge of the cliff.”

Read more: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/190039/mag-bag-2012-was-tough-year-for-magazines.html#ixzz2GcuyQVJf

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