Can someone explain this to me?
On the left, results for “lingerie in fashion” (don’t ask) in Mozilla Firefox (note, our clip is the top result on one of our syndication partners) and on the right, results from Internet Explorer (if you’re keeping tabs, we’re result #7 there).
But, the main question: why do Mozilla and IE return different results?
Oh, where are my manners, here’s to the link to the fashion show in question. You’re welcome. Better yet, here it is embedded:
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WatchMojo NewsletterCBS has adopted a very open, take your content where users are mantra, while Viacom seems to be going the other way around.
First the YouTube lawsuit, then the plan to launch 300 or so sites around their shows.
Bandwagon jumpers notwithstanding, both strategies make sense.
For Viacom, who owns a fantastic stable of shows, it’s not crazy to assume that users will come to your site and watch the shows. Naturally Viacom would reach a lot more people by adopting an open stance, but they’d give up a lot of control, and revenue… clearly the folks there don’t want to do that.
Fitting, since CBS and Viacom have had a very interesting history since the 2005 split.
Apparently, Sir Martin Sorrell is about to announce a new acquisition, soon. According to the NYPost:
WPP already owns a small stake in Spot Runner - around 3 percent - making it the front-runner, and there has been talk in recent weeks that Sorrell would like to buy it outright.
The Los Angeles-based start-up firm, founded by tech veterans Nick Grouf and David Waxman, lists Battery Ventures and Index Ventures as its lead venture-capital backers. Others include Allen & Co. and Tudor Investment.
“It is a business-to-business model that is perfect for a traditional ad agency,” said one industry exec familiar with WPP’s investments.
A WPP spokesman didn’t return messages seeking comment. A spokesman for Spot Runner said the company doesn’t comment on rumor or speculation.
WPP was one of several media and ad companies, along with Interpublic Group and CBS Corp., that invested in Spot Runner during a $40 million fund-raising round last October.
At the time, its backers valued the company at $300 million, meaning that a potential buyer would have to pony up even more to buy out the company.
Interestingly, Spotrunner could, in my opinion, command quite a premium to a company like YouTube/Google, that could certainly offer its battalion of small and medium-sized business advertisers (the first ones to use Ad Sense, before large marketers poured in) to use Spotrunner. How much would that be worth to Google/YouTube? Quite a bit. It’s quite obvious that S&M-sized business would have less objections to UGC than traditional marketers would… yet, because WPP was in early for a 3% stake, they might go long now and buy it all.
Is that bad? Of course not, it just is. But you have to ask yourself if that 3% stake by WPP is reducing or increasing the interest level of other would-be buyers such as Google who fear that WPP might have pre-emptive rights baked in to their ownership clause.
Wow, yesterday it was hard to come up with a crazy post of the day (our first ever).
Today, as of 3:10pm EST, I think we can project the winner, hands down.
This one might go down as the Crazy Post of the Year…
Anyway, enjoy, I don’t know what Quechup is, other than the most recent misspelled “Web 2.0″ company, but find out more in today’s winning post.
It’s called Quechup - Rat Bastard Disease of the Internet, and it’s a gem.
