Why Web Video Ventures Are Failing

Zachary Rodgers | June 15, 2009 | 0 comments

Some links to stories ClickZ's editors are reading today:

Original Video Ventures Going Dark (LA Times) Stage 9 Digital, 60Frames, and others are throwing in the towel on made-for-Web video entertainment as economics prove too tough a nut to crack.

Twitter Helps Dell Rake in Sales (Reuters) PC giant claims $3 million in sales over the course of two years on Twitter click-throughs.

Amazon to Run First TV Ads in Seven Years (AdWeek) Kicks off user-generated media contest to develop concepts and creative. No agency is attached.

AdEx Media Closes $2.3 Million Financing. Performance-based ad network will use the cash to build out products.

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Managing Editor Zach Rodgers oversees ClickZ's award-winning coverage of news and trends in digital marketing. As a journalist he has reported on the rise of web companies, data markets, ad technologies, and government Internet policy, among other subjects. His stories have appeared in Mashable, Search Engine Watch and Kauffman publications, among others, and he has been cited by government and advocacy groups such as the Center for Digital Democracy, U.S. PIRG, the U.K. Independent. He previously held editorial roles at TurboAds, WirelessAdWatch, Internet Advertising Report, ChannelSeven.com, and Datamation. He can be found on Twitter at @zachrodgers.