• Consumers favor short online viewing experiences (Online Media Daily)
• Doubleclick sets up ‘stock’ exchange for the buying and selling of digital ads (The New York Times)
• Major US$16 billion shakeup of Australian retail in the works (Retail Merchandiser)
• Japan: A nation of armchair animators? (Businessweek)
• Bandai crafts a US$500,000 action figure. That’s right, US$500,000 (Platinum Today)
• More food for thought on the fight to control web video (The New York Times)
• Meet The Robinsons US$25 million weekend a letdown? (The Wall Street Journal)
• Broadband use does not lead to mobile surfing (Online Media Daily)
• What can Viacom expect from suing Google? 5,000 lawyers and a mountain of legal fees (Forbes)
• Photobucket: The site behind social networking phenoms MySpace and FaceBook (CNN Money)
• Family Dollar sales shoot up 12.2% to US$1.947 billion in Q2 (Retail Merchandiser)
• Do online and cable users see things differently? (Online Media Daily)
• Alpha moms: a new (perhaps surly) breed of parent? (USA Today)
• Xbox 360 upgrade will enable transmission of HD content (paidcontent.org)
• All hail Potter’s deathly (and final) book cover (cbc.ca)
• Junk food ads targeting kids in spotlight again (The Wall Street Journal)
• Get a leg up on the competition by getting naked at the corporate level (Wired)
• YouTube award winners announced, check out Kiwi (YouTube)
• Mobile phone site ratings in the works (Mediaweek)
• The potential of next-gen consoles to act as ‘media vending machines’ (MediaPost)
• Guangdong toy exports up 5.9%, but EU sanctions starting to take toll (TDC Trade)
• A look behind the spin at Wal-Mart (The New Yorker)
• New online community for Parents may yield marketing opps (www.parentography.com)
• Borders book chain plans to revitalize slumping sales (Retail Merchandiser)
• Is there value in content deals for ISPs? (Marketwatch)
• DIY animation: One man’s attempt to make stop-motion shorts with his kids (Wired Blogs)
• US Government has US$1.5 billion pool to fund digital switchover (Forbes)
• Three senators, FCC commissioner chew the fat on childhood obesity issue, blame marketers – again (AdAge)
• Major media outlets lining up against Google? (The L.A. Times)
• US Chamber of Commerce targets counterfeiting in China (The Wall Street Journal)
• YahooTube? Yep Yahoo! is throwing its hat into user-gen ring (paidcontent.org)
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