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Amanda Congdon, the former host of Rocketboom, which pulls in 211,000 viewers a day, is moving from the web to mainstream media - making her the first video blogger to go big time.Congdon will appear on Disney’s ABC News Now, a 24-hour digital channel, and will also host a weekly video blog on abcnews.com, where she’ll cover topics such as new media, the environment and politics, according to Business Week (via MarketingVox). Congdon will also develop a comedy that will appear online and on air for Time Warner’s HBO.
Congdon’s move is good news for internet celebrities, or ‘cewebrities’, everywhere. Online content network blip.tv, which hosted a Congdon’s post-Rocketboom vlog AmandaAcrossAmerica, is regularly approached by traditional media outlets.
“We have had meetings with a bunch of Hollywood agencies,” says Dina Kaplan, a blip.tv cofounder. “They see us as a farm team for them.”
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Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
