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Limewire wants to give record labels a cut of its ad revenue
CEO George Searle announced an ambitious plan to pay rights holders at the P2P Media Summit in Los Angeles last week. His company plans to split the revenue of its upcoming contextual advertising platform with record companies. Labels will get as much as 40 percent of the money Limewire is ...
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Skyrider’s Demise Shows P2P Spamming Doesn’t Pay [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... The final nail into the coffin of Skyrider’s search marketing business materialized when Limewire announced that it would start its own search advertising late last year. The file-sharing company has since started to integrate sponsored results into its search listings. These results appear at the top of the results list, just like Skyrider’s used to, but are easy to tell apart from regular search results and don’t require the download of questionable media files to open up a browser page. Limewire is using these spots to ...

Skyrider’s Demise Shows P2P Spamming Doesn’t Pay
NewTeeVee — ... The final nail into the coffin of Skyrider’s search marketing business materialized when Limewire announced that it would start its own search advertising late last year. The file-sharing company has since started to integrate sponsored results into its search listings. These results appear at the top of the results list, just like Skyrider’s used to, but are easy to tell apart from regular search results and don’t require the download of questionable media files to open up a browser page. Limewire is using these spots to advertise for its own ...

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