Apple’s Steve Jobs somewhat famously said in April that people aren’t searching on their phone, but instead, are using apps. He reasoned, apps on the iPhone “get you into every corner of the internet…This is a new phenomenon that is occurring on the iPhone for the first time in history.”…

A few days after its newspaper sibling A.H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) reported narrowing its losses, local broadcaster Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) posted some very healthy profits and revenue numbers. Among them was a 14 percent jump to $8.1 million in online revenues tied to its 20 TV station websites. The…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q209	Net Inc. vs Q209
Belo Corp.	Release		13%	91%

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MTV has reorganized the heads of its Integrated Marketing Group with the return of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) sales executive Angela Courtin to the Viacom (NYSE: VIA) company. Courtin will serve as SVP, MTV Integrated Marketing. In conjunction with the new hire, MTV also promoted Jeannie Scalzo to SVP, MTV Integrated…

Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands is building up its hyperlocal unit Geomentum by adding former Forrester analyst Lisa Bradner has its first president. She’ll head up account management and consulting, as the company expects to expand into client categories such as restaurant, retail, and banking. In addition, she’ll be working with Mediabrands…

While the magazine industry finally experienced a boost in Q2 in terms of largely positive ad pages, the comeback remains fairly weak, forcing publishers to try to figure out ways of using their brands to expand their marketing muscle. Meredith (NYSE: MDP) has been preparing for these changes for several…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q209	Net Inc. vs Q209
Meredith	Release		5.8%	120%

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A month after he announced his departure from his post at Publicis’ digital hub VivaKi, David Kenny, one of the key architects of the ad holding company’s interactive strategy, has decided to join content delivery manager Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) as president. Kenny will run Akamai’s general business operations, including global…

IGN, the News Corp.-owned video game site, is launching a gamer-focused social network called My IGN. On the social network, which launched in beta today, users can “follow” games in order to see the latest news about them in a Facebook-like news feed. They can also communicate with other My…

Despite the big push that Ask.com’s latest relaunch got this week, parent company IAC (NSDQ: IACI) doesn’t expect it to set the world on fire. During the company’s Q2 conference call, analysts had a lot of questions about the IAC search vehicle, which is now emphasizing direct questions and answers…

It was exactly two years ago today that David Moore stepped aside as CEO of WPP Group interactive shop 24/7 RealMedia to take on the more general advisory role within the unit. Now, his successor, Jonathan Hsu is leaving 24/7 RealMedia after 10 years to become the head of RecycleBank,…

Online revenues for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) benefited from the ad recovery in Q2, a period in which the company ramped up its focus on mobile. Overall, however, revenues declined slightly though the company was able to narrow its net loss considerably, to $803,000 from $6.1 million in…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q209	Net Inc. vs Q209
MSLO	Release		3%	86.9%

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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) execs said the company posted double-digit growth in auto, health care and retail advertising in Q2. As the fall elections approach, political is also expected to be a big revenue driver for its ad business this year. But for the moment, advertising is a small part of…

Maybe IAC (NSDQ: IACI) isn’t so crazy to think that its Ask.com search business can compete in a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) world. Higher search ad dollars as well as help from dating site Match.com helped send revenues higher in Q2 for the company. Profits were impacted negatively by the sale…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q209	Net Inc. vs Q209
IAC	Release		19%	67%

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»  Steve McPherson has resigned as president of ABC (NYSE: DIS) Entertainment Group to concentrate on his wine business and a “new media venture”; he’s being replaced by Paul Lee, who is promoted from ABC Family. [Deadline Hollywood] »  Just as the ink dries on Disney’s Playdom acquisition, Google (NSDQ:…

Marketers still don’t get Twitter, a report from interactive shop 360i shows. Not only are advertisers hardly being mentioned by Twitter users, but the categories of those brands who do prompt discussions on the microblogging service are fairly limited to social nets, entertainment and technology companies.

»  What does it mean that Wikileaks is the world’s first stateless news organization? [Pressthink, CJR] »  Gawker’s Nick Denton is getting profiled in The New Yorker. [Village Voice] »  A bankruptcy investigator finds that The Tribune Company may be too weak to survive, creating another hurdle to the publisher’s…

IAC’s search site Ask.com has tried numerous incarnations to capture some of the traffic and advertising gold possessed by Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Last year, it tried coupons. Before that, it promised more relevance, more engagement and less clicks. This time, it’s going back to its “Ask Jeeves” roots, with answers…

Online conversational marketing tracker BuzzLogic has raised an $8.8 million second round. The funding, from returning backers, comes a month after BuzzLogic CEO Rob Crumpler stepped down from the post. Crumpler had been with San Francisco company since it started years ago and left to pursue “other startup opportunities.” In…

Among the eight million people who have downloaded Clear Channel’s free mobile applications, the average user spends 3.5 hours listening to the streaming radio service and visits an average of four stations a week. All of that adds up to profitability for the media conglomerate’s mobile business, demonstrating that for…

Eyeblaster, which filed to raise up to $115 million in an IPO in March, now says it expects to raise at most three-quarters of that amount. The company, which helps ad agencies manage their digital ad campaigns, says in an SEC filing that it plans to raise up to $92…