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* LEAD DESIGNER Marketing and Communications, New Media Boston University Would you like to design top quality interactive projects for Boston University? Are you interested in taking advantage of some of the best benefits out there? As part of our team of designers you could have the potential to win ... [more]

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We are looking for an exceptionally talented **Motion Graphics Designer** to work alongside our talented team of specialist web and Flash designers. The core objective of the role will be to develop compelling online motion-graphic elements for websites, microsites, presentations and banners to create a fully immersive user-experience. Outstanding creativity ... [more]

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Looking for a Jr. AD with Design experience who lives near the Ontario area. Two - Three days a week of in store work on all aspects of POS. You will be reporting to a Creative Team at a very respected advertising agency in LA. If you are interested, please ... [more]

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Description: Deep Focus is an award winning interactive and design agency, specializing in online marketing for the entertainment industry. We are looking for a Creative Director to join our fast growing team and lead our integrated online strategies. This position is responsible for concept and execution of new innovative online ... [more]

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65media (www.65media.com) is an award-winning design and marketing firm specializing in interactive online marketing campaigns for the entertainment and consumer product industries. We are seeking a dedicated and innovative Web Developer with ability to oversee technical aspects of a project from documentation to development. Required skills: - 5+ years development ... [more]

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Proteus, a leading wireless application development firm, seeks a Java and PHP Developer to join the technology team at the company headquarters in Arlington, VA. Candidate must be a US Citizen or possess a green card, must be fluent in English and must currently reside in the Washington-Metro area. We ... [more]

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HUGE is an innovative design firm in Brooklyn, New York with renowned team of designers, programmers, and interaction specialists, and a dedication to beautiful, highly-functional design. We’ve won numerous design and branding awards for our work and have an outstanding client list including IKEA, Atlantic Records, JetBlue, AOL, and Scholastic. ... [more]

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Are you a Proofreader’s Proofreader? Do you correct other people’s grammar in everyday conversations? Get annoyed in the subway when looking at a poster that clearly ignores all conventional punctuation? Then take a deep breathe right now as there is a place for you after all! Our client, a large ... [more]

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Firstborn is currently looking for experienced Flash Developers to work on upcoming high-profile projects in our Los Angeles office. Our work: www.firstbornmultimedia.com We want individuals who are always looking to explore new ways to use Flash technology, live and breathe ActionScript and bring PSD’s to life in Flash. We need ... [more]

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We're getting ready finally to launch paidContent:UK, the UK-focused site we have been promising for a while now. The site will focus on UK, and to some extent on Europe; like our other sites, paidContent:UK will cover the economics of digital media, both online and mobile. Look for it the first week of September; subscribe to the newsletter and you'll be the first to know when the site launches. More after the jump…

This will be the fourth news site in the ContentNext Media network, after paidContent.org, mocoNews.net and ContentSutra.com.

Joining us in this new endeavor are two UK-based journalists and a business executive:
-- Robert Andrews, who has been freelancing for us for a few months, is coming on full time as the editor of paidContent:UK. A former BBC News journalist, Robert has written about technology, digital media and culture for more than a decade. He is a regular contributor to Wired News and Blogging4Business, previously reported online journalism and e-commerce for Journalism.co.uk and E-consultancy, and has written for titles including New Media Investor, Digital Home and PC Plus. He has appeared in Time , Los Angeles Business Journal and on BBC radio, has taught online journalism to university students and has worked to develop social media for marketing and business communication. You can contact him at robert AT paidcontent.org

-- Ingrid Lunden has joined us as a contributing correspondent, and primarily be writing on mobile for MocoNews.net and paidContent:UK. Most recently, she was the editor of Total Content + Media and before that an editor and reporter for Total Telecom. She is a Russian-born American currently based in London. You can contact her at ingrid AT moconews.net.

-- On the business side, Raj Kotecha has joined as our Director of European Sales and Business Development. After completing his MSc in Technology Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 2003, he moved to Toronto to establish one of the first third-party mobile content portals, working closely with carriers and the entertainment industry.  Recently in the UK he has been working with clients Warner Music Entertainment, NBC Universal and Pathé in devising their mobile offering for movies such as Hot Fuzz and Outlaw .  As a long time music collector and DJ, he is familiar with working nights, which is great as 9 a.m. Santa Monica time is 5 p.m. London time, he opines. If you are interested in coming on as a charter launch sponsor to be part of the buzz, e-mail him at rdkotecha AT contentnext.com. 

Top headlines of the week from our two sister site MocoNews.net and ContentSutra:
MocoNews.net:
-- A Setback For The White Spaces Spectrum Lobby From Google, Others
-- Amp'd Mobile's Customer Buyout Approved By Judges; Amp'd Gets 25 Percent Stake In Prexar
-- Viacom Rebrands Mobile Music Channel In Japan From Flux To myMTV; Adds Social Networking
-- Breaking Down Walled Gardens: iPhone Not The Only Solution
-- CBS To Include Ads In Its Mobile Video Services

ContentSutra:
-- TV18 To Buy 50% Stake In MTV India For Rs. 200 Crore
-- HR Issues In The Digital Media Industry
-- HT Media Transfers Non-News Digital Properties To New Subsidiary: Medialab Web Solutions
-- Shekhar Kapur Eyes 32 Percent Returns From New Media Fund
-- Planet M To Allow In-Store Digital Downloads As CD Sales Wane; Entering DVD Rental Business

Everyone and their mother in law has numbers proving one side or the other: whether making WSJ.com fully open, ad-supported instead of subscription makes sense or not. WSJ publisher Gordon Crovitz told us earlier this week: "So far, our analysis says the way to maximize revenues and earnings is to have a mixed model."

Now Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth does a detailed number-crunching and analysis of the scenarios if WSJ.com became open, something Murdoch has indicated in the past he would like to see: "We believe almost 50% of the site's revenue is derived from subscriptions, [but] we believe the incremental advertising revenue derived from a larger user base could ultimately make up for lost subscription revenue over time. The shift, however, could potentially have a more meaningful impact on current financial news incumbents, including Yahoo! Finance, MSN Money, AOL Money & Finance, and CNNMoney.

Some estimates from the report:
-- The total online division of DJ, which includes MarketWatch and several other properties, will generate an estimated $115 million in advertising revenue in 2007.
-- Of the ad revs, about $75 million (+13% Y/Y) is generated by WSJ.com. In addition, WSJ.com will generate roughly $65 million (+11%) in subscription revenue in 2007, putting advertising/subscription revenues at a 54% / 46% split, or $140 million in total.
-- MarketWatch will generate roughly $40 million in advertising revenue in 2007
-- An average page view on WSJ.com currently commands almost 4x the ad revenue of a page view on NYTimes.com.

Then the likely impact of making WSJ.com free:
-- WSJ.com would have to increase page views by 2x – 3x, which is unlikely in the near-term, even as a free site, but longger term it should be viewed in context of News Corp's big online reach.
-- A potentially free WSJ.com poses the greatest immediate threat to Yahoo! Finance, AOL Finance, and MSN Money.
-- If News Corp moves more aggressively toward building out WSJ.com's national and political news coverage (which has been suggested), we believe the competitive threat would extend further to the general news sections of the portals, including MSNBC and CNN.
-- "Based on our estimate that 10%-15% of the display advertising at the major portals is driven by the finance verticals, we estimate that at Yahoo!, Yahoo! Finance will drive $160 million - $250 million in 2007, or applying a 45% EBITDA margin, roughly $75 million - $115 million in annual EBITDA. Using similar assumptions, AOL Money & Finance will drive $98 million - $150 million in revenue and MSN Money will drive roughly $50 million - $70 million in revenue. Therefore, in aggregate we estimate the 3 major portals could drive roughly $350 - $450 million in 2007 advertising revenue – representing a key opportunity which a recharged WSJ.com could pursue."

You can download the full PDF here

Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) filed its 10-Q late today with SEC, and not much new info on the digital side, besides some adjustment in the final buyout price for UK-based financial media company eFinancialNews Holdings, which it bought in April. The final price is approximately $63 million, including an estimated working capital adjustment (from the previously reported $51.6 million).
Also, some update on its DJ/IAC Online Ventures announced in March 2007, which it jointly owns with IAC. "This joint venture will create a new personal finance Internet business targeting the broad Web-savvy consumer audience by launching a community-driven Web site that combines the brands, marketing platforms and personal finance content of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and other Dow Jones products with the marketing, entrepreneurialism and technology expertise of IAC's businesses, including Ask.com and LendingTree. We expect this venture to be dilutive to our earnings by about three cents a share this year." We had this info back when the JV was announced in March, but this means they are still working on it seriously. My guess (and only my guess, nothing more) is that with News Corp acquisition, this venture may not necessarily see the light of the day, or will be merged with the open WSJ.com (if it happens) or MarketWatch.

ContentNext Media is an independent media and information company based in Santa Monica, California, covering the business of digital media. The company operates three award-winning sites: paidContent.org, mocoNews.net and contentSutra.com.

We want to expand our financial coverage by hiring a U.S.-based reporter with a flair for numbers to cover both private companies and public companies, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
The reporter:
-- On the private company side, will track venture investments and crunch numbers based on publicly available information.
-- For public companies, will write about quarterly earnings, cover earning calls, go through SEC filings (primarily 10-Q, 10-K and S-1), and well as some other key financials.
-- Will cover research notes/reports from the Wall Street analysts and some analyst conferences.
-- Will incorporate and add to our industry-leading coverage of deals and companies.
-- Will write primarily for paidContent.org and mocoNews.net, and other ContentNext Media sites as warranted.

Qualifications:
Of course, ease with numbers is key but must be matched with solid reporting skills and proficiency in current financial reporting techniques. 2-5 years experience with a financial or business publication and newswires. College degree preferred. The right candidate will be comfortable working on deadline in a breaking-news environment and will be an independent self-starter who can work virtually with a global team.

Salary: Commensurate with experience, with generous benefits and options.

Location: U.S. (scheduled workday will take NY market hours into account.)

To Apply: Send us your resume and links to clips at: jobs AT contentnext.com

Last week on MocoNews.net, I posted a seminar idea here, and now we're definitely going ahead, based on the feedback: The half-day seminar is titled "iPhone And Beyond: The Content Opportunities", and in a week since I mentioned it, it has become even more relevant, in light of FCC's spectrum auction ruling. Our focus is on content, and how media companies can now see the landscape change and the opportunities to come.

The date: Sep 18. The venue: The swanky new Landmark Theater in West LA. Time: 2PM-5PM followed by cocktails. We're aiming for about 150-200 attendees. The ticket registration will open up around Aug 15th...more after the jump…

The formal description: This seminar for content executives will examine opportunities with the launch of iPhone and how it is shifting views of the mobile content platform, and the larger developments in the industry with emerging consensus on open networks and free flow of content. Now that the iPhone is here, how does it move the industry forward? Also, what do the iPhone's omissions say about the progress that still needs to be made? What kind of services can the industry hope for, as the handset evolves into an open platform? Will we ever see a device which marries iPhone's UI and screen with Helio Ocean's keyboard and communication/IM capabilities, and has the multimedia recording and camera capabilities of Nokia N95, and then run on a 3G-Wi-Fi network? How does all this affect the media and entertainment industry?

This half-day seminar will focus on the practical problems and conceptual leaps the industry needs to make to enable open content and communication services on handsets and networks. The iPhone isn't the only handset designed to enhance media use, only the most hyped. What are others doing that works? What doesn't and why? Can content truly thrive in a maze of closed systems? How will operators play into the open-content market?

We'll start on the speaker selection process now. If anyone has any suggestion, let me know at rali AT moconews.net. Also, if you want to underwrite the effort, ping our ad side as: advertising AT contentnext.com.

Our generous sponsors till now: Telephia.

The BBC's new iPlayer has gotten off to a flying start. The broadcaster reports that in its first week, more than 120,000 people have downloaded the beta version of the service. The BBC predicts that it will have 500,000 downloads in the first six months of service, and that it will account for 11 percent of all catch-up and simulcast viewing by 2011.

Channel 4 also predicts that it will soon reach 500,000 users for its on-demand service 4oD. Both the iPlayer and 4oD are based on peer-to-peer technology, which has had a bad rap because of its more notorious association with illegal file sharing. "P2P has certain connotations in the industry. But then [the industry] realizes why people are illegally using P2P --the answer is that it is the most advanced, sophisticated and efficient way to distribute content if done legitimately with digital rights management," Jeff Richards, vice president of digital content services at Verisign, the technology firm behind the service, told the Guardian.

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Lots going on this week in news - check out my picks! Happy Friday! Monster downsizes by 800 workers Employee steals $1.3 million, fired WANTED:...

Billboard is augmenting its ranking of digital music sales for its Hot 100 chart formula by including weekly streamed and on-demand music data from Yahoo and AOL Music. The magazine began factoring in the sale of digital tracks in February 2005, as measured by sister company Nielsen SoundScan from a comprehensive panel of online merchants. As part of its expansion to include more streaming music, Billboard is currently negotiating with other online music sources, including digital music service Rhapsody. Under the new Billboard Hot 100 formula, radio play will average about 55 percent of the chart's total points, digital for about 40 percent, and streaming media for 5 percent. While streaming media is relatively small, it's still well ahead of sales of physical singles, which will account for less than 1 percent of the chart's new formula. Release

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Estonia's Ekspress Grupp, a media company with newspapers, magazines and information services, has bought Delfi Group, which operates seven web portals in the Baltic region, for EUR 54 million ($74 million) from Interinfo. Delfi runs portals in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia and, most recently, Ukraine with around 700,000 daily users and has almost half of the online ad market for the entire Baltic, so Express' acquisition gives it plenty of clout farther afield than just Estonia itself. Delfi did EUR 6 million ($8 million) in revenue in 2006; the acquisition is funded by Ekspress' recent IPO and a bank loan. Asides from websites for its print publications, Ekspress already operates car portal Expressauto, property site 4seina and youth entertainment zine Weekend.ee from its dedicated internet unit, which opened in December 2006. (Via Thomson).