Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Craig Emanuel at Sundance Summit: “Now is the time to act boldly and wisely” EDITOR’S NOTE: The following speech was given by Craig Emanuel – a film… Read more

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: UK film financier Myles Nestel has parted ways with Oceana Media Finance to form the Los Angeles-based financing and production outfit Merlina Entertainment…. Read more

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Helmer succeeds Michael Apted as guild topper Taylor Hackford has been named to a two-year term as president of the Directors Guild of America, succeeding… Read more

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — What does the TV network of the future look like? A version of it is coming into focus at New York-based startup blip.tv…. Read more

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time spent with the internet, as it turns out, doesn't grow indefinitely, forever. While there are myriad reasons why people's time spent with internet media stayed… Read more

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — If you were wondering where the media budgets have gone, you might have tried looking around Chicago late last Thursday through Saturday. At the BlogHer '09… Read more

MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — When he came to NBC in 2007 with a cultural and commercial fluency in prime-time programming, Ben Silverman, who announced his impending departure today, hoped to be a hit… Read more

In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, McCann Erickson and Durex see the condom as an aphrodisiac; David O'Reilly expertly animates U2's latest single; Shynola directs a… Read more

General Motors' new advertising and marketing czar is Bob Lutz, who until April of this year headed global product development. According to CEO Fritz Henderson: "Bob's… Read more

YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — There's an app for everything — and now there's even one for everything else. MasterCard, which has built its marketing around the theme, "There are some… Read more

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ben Silverman is out after a two-year stint as co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, where he attempted to revive the fourth-place network with a mix of reality shows and… Read more

LONDON (AdAge.com) — Automated media-trading is not a new idea. But getting a system that media sellers and buyers can agree to for the most coveted ad space has proven nearly impossible to create…. Read more

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Spend and you will get buzz. That seems to be one takeaway from YouGov's BrandIndex, which compiled daily feedback from thousands of consumers for the first half of the… Read more

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Walgreens, which has suffered from a disconnect between its national ad messaging and the in-store experience, has for the first time hired an agency to handle in-store and… Read more

Website Magazine’s upcoming September issue (which will be distributed exclusively to professional-level members in August) features an article from Pam Horan of the Online Publishers… Read more

Reseller web hosting provider Fasthosts Internet released an API which allows resellers to automate new customer signups, create admin tools for end-customers, and process customer orders… Read more

Everyone is looking for a way to monetize their “tweets” – but is PayMeTweets the way? The Web-based application essentially pays Twitterers that retweet sponsored tweets. My… Read more

Web hosting and domain registration provider FatCow announced today that its offices and data centers are now 100 percent powered by wind energy. "We're offsetting all of our electricity… Read more

Affmeter, a popular reporting and analysis tool for affiliate marketers, and performance marketing provider MediaTrust announced a partnership where Affmeter's users can now access… Read more

Ifbyphone just announced that internet marketing agency ClickFuel is using its call-tracking services to provide clients with tools for tracking online ads that generate phone calls. SMBs… Read more