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One of the last best-kept secrets of the Web 2.0 world is celebrating a milestone - its 30 millionth user - and may be headed toward an IPO, CNNMoney reports (via MarketingVox).
Photo-hosting service Photobucket is a Top 50 web property, according to comScore, welcoming over 15 million visitors a month and adding 80,000 new users a day. The company made money last year - most of it coming from advertising. It has also raised $14 million in venture financing.
The site hosts photos and graphics that users then link to blogs, newsgroups and other social-networking sites. It enjoys 70 percent penetration on MySpace, for example.
As Photobucket moves into the mainstream, its demographics are starting to tend toward the 35-40 age range. “A lot of them have kids. Scrapbooking is huge -Two Peas in a Bucket is seeing a lot of traffic,” says CEO Alex Welch.
Marketers have unleashed their holiday promotions earlier than ever this year, with many hitting the stores well before Thanksgiving. But Sirius XM isn’t launching most of its 24-hour holiday music channels until turkey day or later.
The newly merged company…
PC Magazine will stop publishing a print edition with its January issue. The magazine will shift operations entirely online.
The magazine will be sent via email with a link to the current edition. It will continue to look like the…
The switch to digital television arrives in less than three months, and to remind consumers of the transition, the National Association of Broadcasters is running a campaign across PumpTop TV’s network of screens at gas stations.
The spot began airing…
Following an inability to agree with studios on payment for shows distributed online, the Screen Actors Guild has decided to pursue strike authorization from its members in a move the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers calls “bizarre.”
Should…
Getting real-time, 24/7 online access to company news and reaching responsive and efficient PR representatives still rate high on journalists’ wish-lists, but reporters are increasingly sourcing stories from new forms of media as well, according to research from Bulldog Reporter and TEKgroup…
Through the first half of the year, automakers have slimmed their ad spending by 10% to $6.1 billion, according to Nielsen Monitor Plus.
General Motors slipped 6% to $1.2 billion, while Ford Motor cut ad spend by 22% to $954…
