June 2011
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Why Content Isn’t King-How Netflix became... →
The other dirty little secret is that no one in the “traditional” media industry wanted to face the fact that the switch from analog to digital was destined to upend their business models. Reed Hastings, like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, understood that superior service, smart packaging and details (the red envelope) breed customer loyalty.
In fact, the dirty little secret of the media...
Hulu Expands Original Programming With Sci-Fi &...
Following Netflix’s exclusive distribution deal with David Fincher’s forthcoming House of Cards series, Hulu announced Tuesday that it is expanding its own roster of original programming with three new shows from the UK.Over the course of the summer, Hulu will stream three exclusives on Hulu.com and Hulu Plus in the U.S.: Channel 4 and BBC World ..read more.. See what your friends are reading...
USA Network's Covert Affairs Launches Alternative...
The USA Network show Covert Affairs has launched a new plotline that takes place in Budapest — but don’t look for it on TV. It’s only happening on Twitter.A “Tweetcast” of the plot began Monday, a week after the show’s second season began. The mission in Hungary was developed by the program’s writers and will include videos, audio stre ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on Twitter...
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http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/6432888289 →
another excerpt from the Reuters column
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“It is hard to overemphasize the importance of this business shift from the U.S. middle class to the rich at home and the hundreds of millions graduating into the middle class in the emerging markets. Twentieth-century American capitalism was built on what you might call the Henry Ford model — generously compensated workers (Ford paid double the...
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Getting by Without the Middle Class - Chrystia... →
the end of the age of the American mass consumer means that entire industries need to be rebooted from the ground up - millennials and Gen X, we have our work cut out for us !
The move to consumers from emerging markets is just part of the story. Within the United States, the advertising agencies on Madison Avenue are discovering that the age of the American mass consumer may be drawing to...
Data Sprawl: How The Web's Rapid Expansion Will... →
In most of Western Europe, North America, and Asia, the Internet is old. The personal computer led the way, eventually bringing hypertext and multimedia into our offices and now, a huge range of digital appliances that regularly stream more data than they store locally. The growth of data traffic over the next decade will be led by every user relying on more devices for megabyte-dense content. In...
Everyone’s a Storyteller. Not. | Story Worldwide
Lately, everyone in advertising has become a “storyteller” specializing in “engaging content.”
This isn’t true, of course. But I understand why everyone’s making the claim: Digital is the hottest thing in advertising; social media is the hottest thing in digital; to make social media work, you need conversation-starting (and sustaining) ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
Digitas New Front11 - Pipe Reality - Brands meet...
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In Two Years Nearly All TV Content Will Be Online... →
“It’s interesting to think of what the definition of a TV is,” said Comcast’s Strauss. “My kids think an iPad is a TV. People don’t think of TV anymore, they just think of video. For us, in the broader context of what we’re doing, we’re beginning to migrate everything to Internet video.”
I, Cringely » Blog Archive » iCloud’s real...
Apple’s announcements yesterday about OS X 10.7 pricing (cheap), upgrading (easy), iOS 5, and iCloud storage, syncing, and media service can all be viewed as increasing ease of use, but from the perspective of Apple CEO Steve Jobs they perform an even more vital function — killing Microsoft.
Here is the money line from Jobs yesterday: “We’re ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
An Amazing Visualization Of The U.S. Labor Market...
In 1850 nearly half of Americans worked on a farm. Today that share is less than two percent.
Technological and economic development have led to a massive decrease in farmers and laborers. At the same time the service sector has surged, with vast increases in office jobs.
The following charts from the UC Berkeley Visualization Labs show every occup ..read more.. See what your friends are...
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How Apple Will Draft Everyone Into The Cloud. Or... →
The introduction of Apple’s iCloud will create a tipping point that will have a profound impact on consumer software and services.
Like it or not, where Apple goes, everyone else eventually follows. It happened back in the 1980s when Apple introduced the first home computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). Before that, consumers had to use command lines to interact with their...
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Why Agencies, Talent Should Seize the Space... →
Picture this: You’re in a vibrant conference room in Midtown Manhattan witnessing something seemingly normal: two executive creative directors reviewing campaign work and debating brand attributes, customer aspirations and engagement. What’s extraordinary is the fact that one of the ECDs is a gifted programmer perfectly capable of writing and compiling computer programs at will.
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What Rotten Tomatoes data tell us about the best,...
When M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender came out in July 2010, critics competed to see who could muster the most scorn. Shyamalan’s seventh film was “dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written, and thoroughly unappealing” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “[s]tiff, fuzzy-looking, cloddish and disastrous in nearly every way” (Detroit News). In the ..read...
E3: 'Defiance' TV Show, Online Game Unveiled Next...
Three years ago, online game publisher Trion Worlds partnered with Syfy to develop the world’s first massively multiplayer online (MMO) game and scripted live action television series. The science fiction MMO action game from this collaboration, Defiance, will make its cross-platform debut at E3 2011 in Los Angeles next week. The open world shooter ..read more.. See what your...
Harvey Weinstein: VOD, Internet Still Need Time to...
The DVD revenue from movies is down and the money to be made from new media is not yet making up the difference, which has increased the importance of the initial release of a film, producer and executive Harvey Weinstein said Saturday at the Produced By Conference. “It’s become much more of a theatrical business because the movie has to work in ..read more.. See what your friends are reading...
A Photo Booth for Instagram Users
By Instaprint creates printed photos from Instagram images tied to a specific location.
You can always tell the good parties from the bad ones based on the number of photos taken. These days, though, the only way to look back at last night’s good time is to sit yourself in front of a computer and flip through the digital snapshots your friends upl ..read more.. See what your friends are reading...
Bubble? What bubble? Things are great. Unless ...
Editor’s note: It’s January, 2013. Where did the tech boom of 2011 and 2012 lead? These events haven’t happened — but they very well might.Let’s just dub this the month of the Facebook Face-Plant. After every man, woman, child, and Shar-Pei joined the social network, member growth stagnated for the first time in the company’s history. An ..read more.. See what your friends are reading on...
What we’re tired of seeing in movies
Now come the months where they — hopefully — pay the bills with explosions, superheroes, $3 3D glasses and $6 popcorn.
What it’s really about, though, is paralyzing fear — fear of anything new lest it fail and cost the studio hundreds of millions, fear of deviating from what made money last year or even 10 years ago, fear that creates a “blockbus ..read more.. ...
Future of TV According to Netflix’s Reed Hastings... →
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“In the next 10 to 20 years, almost all video will become click-and-watch Internet video and consumers will interact with it on a wider range of devices and it will able be on demand,” he predicted. “You will not tune into a certain channel this is broadcasting — and that is the radical change. It will be an on-demand world.”
“Today on the iPad, you install various apps and in...
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Cable Giants Seek to Limit Internet Streaming,... →
But just as more and more American consumers are joining the streaming-video party, and using more bandwidth because of that, their internet service providers – many of which, by no coincidence, also run large cable TV operations — are getting set to cap the fun.
With companies like Netflix and Hulu threatening their subscription-cable business, companies including AT&T, Comcast...
60% of Generation Y Leaning Toward Cutting the...
A survey released today aims to show cable providers how they can keep losing their influential viewers from cutting the cable. Ideas and Solutions, a Los Angeles-based consultant group for media and technology companies, says that 60% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 were either leaning towards or seriously considering giving up paid televis ..read more.. See what your friends are...
