Company after company has reached out to the web audience to run some form of competition, reaching back to the Netflix Prize in 2006.
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To be sure, that 99, 000 figure isn't likely to be exact: Alexa's people-counter tracks only a small subset of users meant to represent the Web audience as a whole.
As Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) fights for Web dominance with Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), it's hoping those numbers will give it an edge: Google had 133 million users in December and put ads in front of 77% of the Web's audience.
Eventually all three blasters were turned on the unsuspecting web producers and audience development team members who sit in unguarded, low-walled cubicles at the center of the New Newsroom.
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There, Microsoft have invested in developing white space spectrum to bring an African audience into the Web and into device ownership.
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With its Google TV project and its fast-growing YouTube video service, Google remains in a prime position to vacuum up ad revenues as big advertisers start to follow their audience onto the Web.
Last April, Googler-in-Chief Eric Schmidt assured an audience at the Web 2.0 Expo that the issue fueling Viacom's massive lawsuit against his company--alleged copyright infringement on YouTube--would become "moot" as soon as Google rolled out a new tool for managing content.
Without Web exposure to precisely the right audience (obsessives) at precisely the right price--free--shops like McGonigle's wouldn't exist.
Zhong's own business idea was born out of a knowledge of the country, notably the chosen target audience for her web community.
The performance attracted a record Web cast audience of nine million.
Does it mean writing articles, or going on television or the web to explain to an even broader audience?
Audience Development: Members of this team will use the information from the analytics team and elsewhere to help Forbes grow its audience, realizing there are many information ecosystems on the Web, as well as other branded partner sites that might be interested in Forbes content.
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For example, we discovered in IBM that when a particular eminent blogger talked about a new product announcement, it increased audience traffic to the product information web pages almost a thousand-fold.
And Facebook enjoys the highest profile of the recent generation of Web firms, with an audience of more than 900 million users globally, which by itself would make it the third-most-populous nation in the world.
Jalili is widely assumed to be the favorite and his web presence is suitably polished and indicative of considerable preparation, though quite who the audience for this is, given the current restrictions on internet access in the run-up to the election, remains unclear.
By putting all her content online, Day is able to reach her audience where they live: On the web.
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Then David turned into a Web producer to meet the needs of a different audience one that demands as much information as you can give them.
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The website generates about a half million impressions of its content a day on Facebook, and reaches a total audience of 20 million people across the Web, mobile and television platforms each month.
Post Co. chairman Don Graham, on the other hand, has been a paywall skeptic, arguing that the Post is unique and risked scaring off its web audience, which is primarily national rather than local.
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Tan, chief executive, says the product tackles a key flaw of the Web: For all the talk of interactivity, it is primarily a one-way medium imposed on a mute audience.
The web is live 24-hours a day with a captive audience at all times.
It also saves Browster the trouble of building its own Web sites to attract its own audience.
But which Web 2.0 tools are the popular up and comers with this audience?
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The very mention of a then-controversial decision to make Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser the default browser on Apple computers drew hisses of dissent from the audience.
Their home is the web, where anyone with the right moves and a camera can find a huge audience.
Importantly, the Times managed to add a new leg to its business without significantly cannibalizing its existing web audience.
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Cloistered in a corner of the web in 90-minute segments beginning at midnight, these debates are reaching a minuscule audience.
In looking at the economics, Murray said that reports that they were earning high value for their web video audience were pretty much on target.
At DEV we see dozens of new online channels in formation that target a specific audience segment such as Tween Girls and program the best material already available across the web.
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