GumGum teams up with leading content marketplace, greatly expands breadth of content offerings.
SANTA MONICA, CA / NEW YORK, NY- September 22, 2008: GumGum, an analytics and monetization platform for content online, announced today that it has partnered with Newscom, a premier destination for high-quality digital content. Beyond providing GumGum publisher partners with increased access to first-class content for a wide array of verticals, the addition of Newscom further enforces usage-based licensing models as the way of the future.
GumGum will enable publishers to license content from Newscom via pay-per-use and ad-supported licensing options. Pay-per-use enables publishers to manage costs and safely license more content by scaling costs alongside revenue. The ad-supported solution not only gives publishers access to great content for free, but also provides a revenue share to publishers. Read More
Marketwatch.com, published September 18, 2008
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sep 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The Associated Press today announced that the Mobile News Network received more than 16 million page views for the month of August, with 948 news organizations signed up to provide content. More than one million local stories featured on the Mobile News Network were read — the widest coverage available of breaking news, sports, entertainment and business developments for consumers on the go. The Mobile News Network is the first product released by AP’s Digital Cooperative, an initiative aimed at finding new digital outlets for news and information produced by AP members.
August marked the Mobile News Network’s first full month following the July 10 release of its iPhone client application. The network was optimized first for the iPhone to take advantage of the device’s multimedia capabilities, and currently 95 percent of traffic comes from the iPhone and iTouch.