Interview: Lonely Planet CEO Travels Toward 50/50 Media Balance
How does the world’s biggest travel guide book publisher, 39-year-old Lonely Planet, pack its bags for the digital era? “Relentlessly,” CEO…
Lonely Planet Launching Mobile Travel Startup ‘Wenzani’, Seeking Partners
Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together wit…
Industry Moves: Condé Nast, Populis, Briefing Media, BBC Worldwide
— Condé Nast International is adding Malcolm Simms as its first chief technology officer, reporting to chairman Jonathan Newhouse and “lat…
BBCWW Selling Top Gear Episodes With Facebook Credits
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-…
BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine Business To Exponent
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag…
Video: BBC Takes iPlayer Global On iPad For €6.99 A Month
Mark Thompson had set an August deadline, and now BBC Worldwide has finally released its global version of the iPlayer catch-up TV service.
BBC Worldwide Will Rent Out ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Via Facebook Credits
Facebook Credits today got another vote from the media industry as a currency for paid digital content: the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldw…
BBC iPlayer Global Launch To Begin In Western Europe
Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers will be made available to Europeans armed with an iPad from later this year, as the BBC begins the process of i…
Video Interview: BBC Worldwide’s Dan Heaf On Social Media
Thirty percent of TopGear.com’s traffic comes from Facebook fans, BBC Worldwide’s digital director Dan Heaf tells Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser…
@ pcMobile: Mobile Video And The Coming Bandwidth Crisis
It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers — it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, pa…