News: Noted

The Daily Mail, an omniverous middle-market British tabloid, has
quietly unseated the New York Times to become the newspaper with the
biggest online reach in the world, according to figures from the
online tracking service comScore. The figures show Mail Online reached
45.3 million people last December, to the Times's 44.8 million.
Trailing them are USA Today at , the Tribune newspapers , and the
Guardian. The growth, the editor and publisher of the Mail's online
properties, Martin Clarke, said, has been driven by U.S. traffic.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/the-biggest-newspaper-in-the-world-i...

The Washington Times has launched a new digital news site,
http://times247.com, which will provide a continuously updated blend
of news, opinion and analysis from The Times combined with
thoughtfully selected content from the nation’s top news sources to an
audience who shares conservative values. The news service will be
distributed digitally to millions of opted-in readers and available
over the Internet on a 24/7 basis. Users can choose the site’s richly
designed home page or “The Skinny” section featuring breaking news
headlines “without the filler.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/24/the-washington-times-launches...

EMarketer forecasts online advertising will edge out print in total
spending this year. While it says online dollars have already
outstripped newspapers and magazines separately, today's announcement
by the New York-based researcher marks the first time digital is
projected to surpass the two combined.

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2140194/report-online-ads-beat-print-spend

The new study, Connecting the Dots Between Consumers, Content and
Consumer Electronics in the Home, finds that those consumers have a
distinct preference for streaming verses downloaded content. More than
half, 51 percent, view streaming content and spend an average of two
hours per week watching, while only 15 percent download content and
spend an average of one hour watching.

http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/2012-1-18-digital-content-study

Digital is a very small but growing area for magazines, and buyers are
most excited about the new prospects this area offers as the new year
begins, most notably opportunities for magazines on e-readers. Sales
of tablets soared over the holidays, and Amazon's new low-priced
Kindle Fire has helped open the market up to a new group of
budget-conscious consumers.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Magazines_22/What-2012-holds...

The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital
presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/index.html. At this early stage,
it contains just a sprinkling of Indian news with the Mail online’s
familiar British/US celebrity content. (The sports content is
British).

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-mail-online-introduces-indian-site/

Just as it appears Facebook could go public as early as May, according
to a story from AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, a new report indicates its
advertising business remains on an upswing. According to the report
out today from Facebook marketing firm TBG Digital, Facebook saw
rising ad rates as well as better performance on those ads in the
fourth quarter of 2011.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/01/16/ahead-of-may-ipo-facebooks-a...

According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated public offering of
Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May. That means
that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month,
given that the review by the Securities and Exchange Commission
usually takes about three to four months.

http://allthingsd.com/20120116/is-facebook-ipo-on-track-for-late-may/

Facebook began a slow rollout of ads to the news feed today, but the
units are not called Sponsored Stories - as some anticipated. Instead,
according to the Palo Alto, CA-based digital giant, they are labeled
"Featured" to distinguish them from earned media messaging that users
sometimes see.

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2136663/facebook-begins-news-feed-ads-rollout

Twitter lashed out at changes Google Inc unveiled for its search
engine on Tuesday, describing the changes as "bad" for consumers and
for Web publishers. Twitter, a microblogging service that allows its
users to broadcast short, 140-character messages to groups of
"followers," said Google's changes would make it tougher for people to
find the breaking news often shared by users of its service.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-google-idUSTRE80A03O20120111