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Where is AdSense for Newspapers?

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Mediabids

From SeekingAlpha, read full story here.

Mark Cuban makes some good points, He obviously isn't familiar with Mediabids- that's ok, I am not sure how the Mavericks are doing this season, so we are even. But seriously, worth reading and it is always worthwhile to read someone calling Google out for its hypocrisy.

Google (GOOG) is unquestionably the best at selling advertising online. They can sell Text, Display, Video at a level that is unparalleled anywhere. True ? The Newspaper industry obviously sucks at doing the same. Eric Schmidt said so in his editorial in the Wall Street Journal.

So why isn’t Google taking advantage of this unique opportunity ? Why not just offer a specially tailored version of AdSense for Newspapers ? They do what they do, create content. You do what you do, generate content and sell ads ?

Makes sense. Won't happen.

Why ? Because of the Google hypocrisy in play. This argument is no different than the same argument they made with Youtube and the music and film industries. All those movies, tv shows, music videos on Youtube were GREAT PROMOTION. The music and movie industries shouldn't blame Google if they don’t know how to monetize all the billions of views and impressions Google and Youtube provided the content industry. Right?

But a funny thing happened along the way. Google caved on Youtube. Their message is no longer “if you cant monetize the traffic, tough luck”. Youtube is now sharing revenue with as many music and video content sources as they can. They are even setting up VEVO a satellite music video site built around Universal Music Group content.

There is absolutely zero chance that the end of this discussion is Google saying “You will take our traffic and like it”. Google is posturing. They recognize they have the advantage. Particularly if MicroSoft/Bing (MSFT) do nothing with Newscorp (NWS). Its only a question of how they use it.



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does AdSense really work??

Posted by PES Membrane Filters on January 27, 2010 at 01:49 AM EST #

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