Category Archives: fairfax

Fairfax & Trade Me results

Posted on February 22, 2008 by

Not bad – strong profit growth of 40% versus last year, with Trade Me and Digital leading the way. Trade Me showed $32m in EBIT, which is for the 6 month period to December 2007. That, apparently, puts them at … Continue reading →

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msn.nzherald.co.nz launches

Posted on January 11, 2008 by

So msn and APN have linked up. But to tell the impact you have to dig a little. The msn.co.nz page is unchanged: The msn news page has better news than before: But the links give it away – here’s … Continue reading →

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Fairfax Digital – new head

Posted on December 6, 2007 by

MEDIA RELEASE 6 December 2007 FAIRFAX MEDIA APPOINTS NEW DIGITAL HEAD Fairfax Media has appointed Stephen Smith to the position of Group Head of Digital. Prior to accepting the Fairfax Media position, Stephen headed Vodafone’s media and entertainment operations. Stephen … Continue reading →

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How to manage your company’s online reputation

Posted on November 16, 2007 by

Over the months I’ve occasionally said one or two negative things about a few companies. Did I say occasionally? Sorry – I meant constantly. Their range of responses has been interesting, and piqued the interest of Bullet PR‘s Nicholas O’Flaherty, … Continue reading →

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AFR will not go free, BusinessSpectator launches

Posted on November 9, 2007 by

Fantastic news – AFR.com.au has redone it’s moronic pricing scheme,  which charged readers (whoever they are) anywhere from $25 to a staggering $150 a MONTH. Rest assurred – they have now come back to reality and are charging just $109 … Continue reading →

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Stuff Entertainment

Posted on November 3, 2007 by

The headlines, it’s all about the headlines: Balkans have the world’s best bums (+video)

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Stuff eases past NZHerald

Posted on November 2, 2007 by

Stuff finally has more domestic browsers than NZHerald – it’s been a long chase, and kudos to the editorial and development teams at Fairfax for the result. Both sites are winners here however – the number of people reading their … Continue reading →

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3 reasons why old media is not doomed

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

A couple opf folk sent me a link to a post on Louis Gray’s blog,  link, which shows the relative decline in Alexa ranking of the news websites. Sites that used to be among the top visited sites in all … Continue reading →

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Bernard Hickey steps down

Posted on October 11, 2007 by

Bernard Hickey is resigning from the end of December as Head of Fairfax Digital NZ to spend time with his family. It’s no doubt been a really tough decision to have to make, but the right one for his family. … Continue reading →

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Burma is Myanmar not Burma

Posted on October 4, 2007 by

It’s one thing to complain about anther country. It’s quite another to call it by the wrong name. The United Nations accepted name for the country between Thailand, Laos, China, India and Bangladesh is Myanmar. Not Burma. Even Wikipedia gets … Continue reading →

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Good AFR.com news – but will they finally get it?

Posted on September 25, 2007 by

Credit David Kirk for pushing the side of reason – especially while doing his other job as Rugby correspondent and blogger. ..afr.com, will be relaunched for the second time this year in “a matter of weeks” with more content likely … Continue reading →

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The New York Times is now set free – what next AFR?

Posted on September 18, 2007 by

The New York Times has realised that internet advertising will generate more revenue than subscriptions, and abandoned the TimesSelect subscription service. TimesSelect held archives, their highly rated columnists and other material.  Apparently TimesSelect made $10m per year, but I would … Continue reading →

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eBay shakes the model, but still doesn’t get it

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

eBay is still figuring out this auction thing. For a start, all eBay neutral feedbacks are now counted as negative, as from a couple of weeks back. If big sellers start getting a bad karma ratio, then the amount of … Continue reading →

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Trade Me Travel Press Release

Posted on September 9, 2007 by

Media Release Sunday 9 September 2007 Trade Me Launches Travel Trade Me today launches its new travel website “Travelbug” with an initial focus on accommodation. Aimed at everyday New Zealanders, Travelbug launches with over 1500 accommodation providers and over 10,000 … Continue reading →

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Travel Bug soft launch (Trade Me Travel)

Posted on September 7, 2007 by

Here at last. Trade Me have soft-launched Travel Bug. Simple, elegant and it just works. But still some weirdness with underlining in Safari. Interestingly TravelBug uses Google Maps rather than Smaps – at least for now. It’s obviously a version … Continue reading →

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