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YouTube Tackles The Davos Question

I hate to be a cynic, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to help it. It is something, after all, and something unprecedented.  Following the (arguable) success of the CNN-YouTube presidential debates, YouTube is taking submissions from users again, this time to be presented to world leaders as they gather for their Masters of the Universe Ball.Well, okay. It's not called that. It's called the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

YouTube Ad Partner Program Extension

Back in May of this year, YouTube began allowing its “most popular and prolific original content creators” to become partners and receive profits from ads displayed alongside their videos, and other revenue sharing models.

PubCon - Monetizing Social Media Traffic

Social media traffic is decidedly different from search traffic, newsletter traffic, or general link traffic. Knowing how to capitalize on this potentially huge traffic influx is critical for social media players. This session will look at ways that social media outlets can be monetized. Moderator: Rand Fishkin Speakers:

Gap Partners With Yahoo For Holiday Campaign

Gap has partnered with Yahoo for its new online ad campaign at gaptidings.yahoo.com. The site lets users upload and post their own video holiday greetings along with viewing videos from other users.

Google Will Bid On Spectrum

Google will bid in the upcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, the company announced this morning. Run by the Federal Communications Commission, the auction is scheduled to begin on January 24, and could run until March.

Kaango Enchants Two Yahoo HotJobs Partners

Although Hearst Corp and MediaNews Group are linchpins in Yahoo's newspaper/online classified alliance, the two publishers have made an investment in online classified ad provider Kaango.

Omniture Not Purchasing WebTrends...Yet

There has been a lot of buzz surrounding WebTrends over the last little while so yesterday I spoke with the Director of Product Marketing Matt Langie and CMO Tim Kopp to get insight on the latest rumblings at WebTrends:

CBS Mobile Partners With Medio

CBS Mobile has partnered with Medio Systems to add search capabilities and search advertising to its CBS Mobile Web sites.

Waterfront Media Gets $25 Million In Funding

Waterfront Media sounds big, and it is - properties like EverydayHealth.com receive millions of visits per month.  Waterfront Media is also big in a financial sense, and a new round of funding brought it $25 million more.

Fox News Partners With Maven Networks

Fox News has selected Internet TV platform Maven Networks to run all of its online video channels for its global news network.