@ paidContent Mobile: Glaser On The Rise Of The Super-Phone
After discussing their recent travel plans, our founder Rafat Ali spoke with Rob Glaser, partner, Accel Partners / chairman, RealNetworks (N…
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Weekend Video: Can iPad Save Newspapers & Magazines?
Yesterday I was part of CNET’s Reporters’ Roundtable, talking about the in-vogue topic of whether iPad will be a savior of newspapers and ma…
@pc2010: ‘Farm’ Talk With The Content Distributors
Highlights from Rafat Ali’s conversation with Demand Media’s Shawn Colo, Discovery’s Bruce Campbell, Associated Content’s Patrick Keane, Abo…
Video: Education of the Entrepreneurial Journalist
Last Friday at the Paley Center in NYC, at the Carnegie Journalism Educators Summit, I spoke on a panel on entrepreneurial journalism. Among…
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What Can You Expect At paidContent 2010 On Feb. 19?
What can you expect at paidContent 2010: Discussing the Economics of Content? Just what we promised when we announced our first namesake con…
Video Interview From DLD: Dennis Crowley, CEO of Foursquare
At DLD yesterday in Munich, I interviewed Dennis Crowley, CEO and co-founder of the currently hot location-based service Foursquare. He touc…
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Weekend Video: Entertainment Execs Talk With Rafat About Hulu, YouTube And More
During the second session at our L.A. Year-End Digital Media Review and Mixer, our founder, publisher and editor Rafat Ali led a panel with…
@ Year-End Digital Media Review: Networks Look Beyond YouTube And Hulu; Indies Try To Scale Out
Trust ContentNext to accomplish the impossible. We got a major network exec, the head of an indie digital studio and the SVP of digital at o…
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@ Live: Rafat Ali Interviews MySpace Mobile’s John Faith
Our own Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of ContentNext Media, took the main stage this morning at Mobile Entertainment Live to interview Joh…
EconCeleb Video: Gossip Blog Space Young Enough To Allow New Entrants
In the EconCeleb panel concerning how new players are getting into the gossip cyberspace, Mike Dodge, SVP/GM, AtomicOnline; Tyler Goldman, C…
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@ EconCeleb: New Voices: Blogs And Social Media Get In The Game
Users seeking celebrity news and content want something more, something deeper that they can socialize around, Tyler Goldman, CEO of Buzznet…
Why Guardian Media Bought paidContent for $30M
Rafat Ali, founder of ContentNext Media, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based new media startup and publisher of the blog paidContent, puts the blame…
EconAds Video: Agency’s Digital Future; Keeping Up With Creative Campaigns
In a discussion about the future of ad agencies at EconAds, panelists talked about the steady growth in digital, the importance of laying ou…
EconAds Video: Knowing Who To Fund, Who To Buy, And When To Sell
At EconAds the final panel of the day took a step back and analyzed a big part of what keeps the ad business thriving, activity in VC and M&…
EconAds Video: CBS’ Jo Ann Ross On Upfronts And CNET Acquisition
During this Q&A ad EconAds a few weeks ago, our founder, publisher and editor Rafat Ali interviewed Jo Ann Ross, president of network sales,…
@ EconAds: Microsoft Still Has M&A Needs; Who Knows If MSFT-YHOO Will Happen?
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) — will the deal happen? Will any deal happen? Those questions met with uncertain answers from…
@ EconAds: Nancy Peretsman, Managing Director, Allen & Co., It’s All About The Buyers
Having been in the middle of some of the most significant digital media deals through her position as Allen & Co. Managing Director, Nancy P…
@ EconAds: Agency 2.0: The Future Of The Agency; Learning Scale While Staying Creative
After plenty of talk about ad networks and digital incumbents, the day’s discussion at EconAds turned to the traditional agencies, and their…
@ EconAds: Video: Tech Confidential’s Mary Kathleen Flynn Interviews Rafat Ali
Just before our first EconAds seminar at New World Stages in NYC started, Tech Confidential’s Mary Kathleen Flynn caught up with ContentNext…
@ EconAds: Jo Ann Ross, President, Network Sales, CBS: Upfronts Not Changing Substantively
Stepping away from busy upfront negotiations, a sleep-deprived Jo Ann Ross, President, Network Sales, CBS (NYSE: CBS) talked with ContentNex…
@ EconSM: Rafat’s Opening Remarks From Our Social Media Conference
Our publisher Rafat Ali is on stage at the Skirball Center auditorium in beautiful scenery here in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, kickin…
@ FOBM: Deals: What's Next?; Credit Crunch Affecting the Big Deals, Still Plenty of Small Strategics
With the credit crunch causing uncertainty across all industries, ContentNext editor and publisher Rafat Ali spoke with a group of media dea…
