Steve Bryant

In a move that expands Google’s advertising efforts beyond magazine glossies, Google will now sell advertisements that appear in the print editions of 50 major newspapers. Many of the largest newspaper companies, including Gannett, The New York Times Company, The Washington Post Company and Hearst will being testing the system later this month. The trial […]

Google and the NBA have apparently gone their separate ways, ending the landmark deal that brought NBA videos to Google Video. Several people have pointed out that the video links on the NBA’s site no longer work. But good news for Hockey fans: Google now has NHL games. I’m not privy to why the NBA […]

Google’s Gmail is offering users the option to open Excel attachments in Google Spreadsheets. File this one under “saw that coming.” Like any good citizen with a brain full of pop culture debris, when I saw this news I thought of the famous line from Seinfeld’s Newman: “When you control the mail, you control information.” […]

Now that YouTube has money in its pockets, the video-sharing site is being sued — but not by the media companies. Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation, an industrial manufacturing and sales firm, filed suit this week against YouTube in Ohio federal district court, arguing they’ve incurred dramatic Web support costs and lost business because […]

A media and entertainment analyst issued a note this week saying it would make sense for Google to take minority stake in radio, TV and outdoor advertising giant Clear Channel. Clear Channel is currently examining whether to sell parts of itself off. The company’s 3rd quarter earnings fell almost 10%, but profit and revenue were […]

Google is announcing today a new Java Gmail client for mobile devices. Gmail for Mobile Devices is a free application and will work on any J2ME phones in the U.S. Users can download the app by using their phone’s browser to navigate to gmail.com/app. According to Google, the new app will work on about 300 […]

Google has a vision for the future of video sharing, and it revolves around international content and economies of scale for advertisers. “Media companies don’t want to salt the earth,” said Hunter Walk, product manager for Google Video, during a panel discussion at Streaming Media West yesterday. “They want a sustainable business model. Our responsibility […]

Executives from Google, YouTube and MySpace will soon be rubbing elbows with media barons at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. But Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft aren’t on the guest list. According to a list for a proposed media council at the WEF, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and MySpace […]

WebAssist is making it easier to plug Google apps into your Web sites. The San Diego-based Web development shop is announcing today a free extension for Adobe Dreamweaver that lets you plug Google Maps, Google Checkout and Google search into your site designs. I installed the extension over the weekend. It’s super easy to use. […]

AOL Video vice president Tim Tuttle took the keynote stage here at Streaming Media West and gave his pitch for the 4th place video service, which he claims has been silently making aggressive moves in the video space in the last year. Tuttle, who replaced nytimes.com GM Vivian Schiller as the keynote speaker after Schiller […]