YouTube Creator Playbook Just Got Better for Publishers

During the fourth quarter of 2013, Facebook drove more than twice as much referral traffic to websites than seven other social media sites combined (Pinterest, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+).

While 77% of Fortune 500 companies have corporate Twitter accounts, the same cannot be said of Fortune 500 CEOs.

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its State of the News Media 2013 report, and two themes are clearly communicated in the findings.

The massive volume of information available to audiences online has changed the world and made it easier than ever for people to educate themselves about any topic.

There has been a lot of discussion about the growing importance of social discovery to drive traffic to content in recent years, and of course, SEO has been a priority for many content publishers for even longer.

This week, I Want Media hosted its annual Future of Media panel discussion at New York University, which was held in conjunction with Internet Week New York.

The amount of content that is uploaded and shared online every second is staggering and seems nearly impossible to calculate, but WebpageFX has created a tool that does exactly that.

Social media software company Lithium is expected to acquire online influence measurement company Klout for at least $100 million in advance of its own IPO.

As news organizations cut staff and more freelance reporters and writers are expected to foot the bill for their expenses, a new media model is developing.