Mar/100
Publisher of the Week: Staralicious
This Week, Image Space Media would like to recognize Staralicious as Publisher of the Week. Staralicious, your source for all the latest breaking celebrity news and gossip, gives its readers access to pictures & videos of celebrities behaving badly.
Craving some gossip?! Click here to visit Staralicious!
Need daily updates? Click here to follow Staralicious on twitter.
Mar/100
How Twitter Plans to Make Money, the Inspiration behind Microsoft’s Ads, and More
Courtesy of Flickr user fidgetrainbowtree
Since we consider ourselves to be a part of the new wave of internet advertising and web monetization strategies, we try to stay abreast of internet advertising news at Image Space Media headquarters. That means spending a bit of time every day on our Google Readers, on Yammer, and on Twitter, reading the latest about tech startups, advertising, marketing... Anything that seems relevant to our work. And about once a week, we've been sharing what we've been reading with you all, at our What's Happening Around the Web tag.
So what's new this week?
Quora recently closed its first round of funding with a valuation estimated at $86 million. Quora is a new site (invite only!) that provides a question and answer service. It's success, however, is based on the fact that it goes beyond just Q&As by sparking discussions. As TechCrunch described Quora, "there’s a magic to Quora that has captured Silicon Valley’s imagination. Something about the quality of the people and the content. Real discussions break out on Quora all the time."
Mar/100
Journal-ISM
Image Space Media’ s new acronym –ISM—calls to mind a lot of words ending in ism. Capitalism...activism...altruism...Judaism (Happy Passover!); the list goes on. Today ISM would like to take this opportunity to reflect on one of our favorite words ending in ism: Journalism.
Mainly defined as reporting news, journalism remains the cornerstone of the continuously evolving multimedia world. Today’s media business is going through the most monumental transformation in its history, one in which we are receiving information at a pace that’s unfathomable. It probably goes without saying that the emergence of Twitter is driving the transformation. Not only does Twitter have journalists reporting in real time, but readers are sharing news almost as quickly as it is being reported.
Over the past few weeks, Image Space Media has had the pleasure of watching company news spread in real time. Shortly after we launched PubStop at SXSW, Adotas ran the news and even featured a video clip of our fearless CEO, Jesse Chenard. Within minutes the story was circulated via Twitter retweets, some of which were linked to Facebook status feeds, and some even to Linkedin.
Mar/100
Friday Photos: Our favorite SXSW photobooth photos!
Its that time of the week again! For this edition of Friday photos, we're featuring our favorite photobooth photos from South by Southwest Interactive.
Awesome cat masks, cute couple shots, the exec team striking a pose and fellow SXSW exhibitors!
Mar/101
Publishers! Check out our nifty tools!
So you've signed up your website with Image Space Media -- congratulations! But what next? Here at ISM, we want to make sure you have all the right tools for success, so that means fully utilizing your Pubstop by ISM account and joining our Publisher Community Forum, of course!
Stay updated with your website's progress by using the Image Reporting tool on your Pubstop account, and check each individual image's impressions, clicks, earnings, and other performance metrics. Which images are generating the most income? Highest click through rates? eCPM? Search? It's easy to find out!
Mar/100
Publisher of the Week: Daily Fun Pic
Here at Image Space Media we love images, so what's better than a website that has awesome pictures!? Check out Daily Fun Pic, simply a website that has a cool, interesting, and/or humorous pictures posted daily.
Click here to follow Daily Fun Pic on twitter!
Mar/100
Recovering from SXSW: This Week’s Web Ephemera
This might look like Mardi Gras but it's actually 6th Street in Austin, Texas, during the music portion of SXSW. Photo taken by our Publisher Manager Samantha Farr.
So, now that we're winding down from the excitement of SXSW, it's time to get back to work. And lord knows, it wouldn't be a normal day at ISM Headquarters if we didn't spend some time cruising the web for some new and interesting stuff related to advertising, images, and the like.
First up! Yesterday was World Water Day. Did you celebrate? Decided by the United Nations Water Group, this year's theme was "Clean Water for a Healthy World." The Big Picture blog, one of the best collectors of beautiful news photography on the web, featured 43 insanely awesome images from across the world related to World Water Day. Among our favorite images is one of India's Ganges River during a religious holiday, an aerial shot of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Southern California, and a photo capturing a tender moment during a traditional kissing festival in Bali. All of them are fantastic.
Next up! On a completely different note, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (a.k.a intern Carly's favorite museum in the world - also note: Tad has a lifetime membership), has officially acquired the @ symbol. As Tweeter Maria Popova (@brainpicker) writes, "@MuseumModernArt acquires Twitter and all the world's email. Well, sort of." Learn more after the jump.
Mar/100
SXSW Interactive Recap
We’re back in New York Folks!
South by Southwest Interactive was one heck of a ride. We had an AMAZING turnout at our booth. A big thank you to Aramak for making sure we had an ample supply of Shiner Bock beer, frito pies, and hot dogs for our visitors.
Shout outs to Todd Darby of Say Cheese for Fun for making sure we had lots of photobooth fun and Chris Davis for being related to Tad and taking flicks around the trade show!
Highlights:
-- Julia Roy tweeting about us, resulting in an instant mob at our booth
Mar/100
Day One at SXSW
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth! We had an amazing first day in Austin!
Our rockin' booth!
All day we served Shiner Bock beer, hot dogs, and frito pies to hungry and thirsty trade show goers.
Hot dogs and frito pies, oh my.
We also had a secret weapon at our booth -- a photobooth that rocked the house!
No one could resist our photobooth... especially these guys
Looking forward to Day two of SXSW Interactive! We'll be serving beer, hot dogs, and frito pies all day long! Come by and say hi if you're in Austin!
Also check out our gallery page to see more photos of ISM at SXSW!
Mar/101
ISM’s Web Makeover
Our fly new look.
Amazing stuff is happening in Image Space Media Headquarters: We've unveiled our new website, logo and our publisher panel PubStop. AND our team is gearing up to head to SXSW Interactive tomorrow. It's an exciting time to be using in-image ads.
But let's break it down a little. Our team has put in a lot of work to make our new website look as beautiful as it does... from back-end developers to content writers, from management on down to us bloggers/ISM cheerleaders. And we're pretty happy with the results.
Here's a run-down of some of the additions to the site:
- Special section for advertisers, including FAQs and information about our content channels.
- For our WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr friends, step-by-step instructions on how to implement our code on each specific blog platform.
- PubStop! Our exclusive interface for publishers where you can see how many dolla bills you've made, control which ads have images, and just generally have a good time.
- Management bios! Ever wondered what the smiling faces of the ISM team look like? You're in luck!
- A new look! From our beautiful new logo to our poppin' color palette, every aspect of the ISM site is designed to be evocative.
Not to brag, but we think these updates are pretty fly. What do you think? We hope you find them to be an exciting and useful upgrade to ISM's services. Let us know what you think! Post your thoughts in the comments or email info@imagespacemedia.com!