In his mind, great technology without compelling content will make it more difficult to sell ads.
The conditionality being that Apple is able to sell ads on the new service at decent rates.
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"Upfront" pricing refers the rates at which networks sell ads during their annual selling season in the spring.
Such an app, Bloomberg said, could be used to sell ads based off of where users go.
Oh, yeah, Yahoo and Microsoft sell ads, too, but there is no doubt about who has the mojo.
Alternatively, news organizations can also sell ads directly on their mobile browsers and keep more of the revenue themselves.
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Hence, the re-design, which allows Twitter to sell ads in a way that would not disrupt the flow of messages.
To sell ads on their mobile apps, for example, news organizations must give some of the revenue to the platform owner.
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Google's move is part of its quest to sell ads and other services to local retailers, a growth frontier for Internet companies.
In other words, we're not looking to sell ads at higher prices.
Those companies either sell ads directly to advertisers or work with more than 200 third-party digital advertising companies that broker ad space.
Owners can choose to remove the content, sell ads against it and share the money with YouTube, or use it as a promotional tool.
Cybersquatters will try to grab these sites first and sell ads on them or try to shake down trademark holders for the site rights.
The issue of whether a company can sell ads on others' sites had been put to rest almost a decade ago, or so Calacanis believed.
Many took issue with the claim that home put people, not apps, at the heart of the mobile experience, saying it would help Facebook sell ads.
If Google made a serious play for the wireless spectrum, the search company could sell ads to subsidize a service that Apple's customers could connect to.
He said Facebook's relationship with data partners could become more worrisome if Facebook leverages the location data it passively collects from mobile devices to sell ads.
They amount to soliciting unpaid labor from experts in order to lend legitimacy to a meaningless list used to support clip packages and to sell ads.
Vranesh says they are focused on making sure games are free and accessible, and around that model there is a lot of advertising inventory, opportunity to sell ads.
You also can't charge for your magazines or sell ads in them, though any ads embedded in the content you include would travel with that content into your magazine.
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's president resigned over the weekend, just as the fast-growing but profitless blogging platform prepares to sell ads for the first time and tries to justify its sky-high valuation.
After five years of trying to sell ads on television using the automated buying system that works so well for its signature search ads, Google has finally given up.
Alloy came on board to help Smosh sell ads.
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Of course, beyond impressing friends with the predictions, the algorithm has direct implications for the likes of Twitter itself -- being able to sell ads against trending topics could benefit the social media company enormously in its ongoing quest to monetize.
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Waze CEO Noam Bardin says that while his team was thinking bottom-up, figuring out how to sell ads against its traffic content, Meeker was thinking top-down, advising him to imagine how Waze can steal dollars from the multibillion-dollar billboard and radio markets.
The upgrade comes after web giant Google announced Monday it is developing a free software package for cell phones that would give it a new platform on which to sell ads and services (See "Google Wants Your Phone, Too" and "Google's Call").
Because if people are able to create and manipulate content to the extent that Google can sell ads, then why is there a need for broadcast companies like CBS and ABC to spend billions on content only to have to engage in disputes over ad revenue.
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The upgrade comes after web giant Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) announced Monday it is developing a free software package for cell phones that would give it a new platform on which to sell ads and services (See "Google Wants Your Phone, Too" and "Google's Call").
Eventually, that data could be sold as market research or be used to sell Hiya ads.
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Mikengreg Games now plans to sell banner ads on the free version of "Gasketball, " he added.
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