August 2012
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#NBCFail - The audience wants a better product... →
excellent recap by @farrahbostic on the collision betw. old&new media& the biz model issues. It’s a classic case of trying to change the engine while on clocking 120mph on the highway… Will prep a follow-on post asap.
The audience wants a better product experience, but what they don’t seem to realize is that *they are* the product. The customers for the IOC and NBC and...
July 2012
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Roku investment may signal News Corp. shift -... →
Rupert still has great instincts !
Because Rupert Murdoch is known for making bold moves, subtler ones like a modest investment in Roku announced Thursday are easy to ignore — yet prove just as significant.
A small gizmo maker getting a $45 million round in financing led by News Corp. and BSkyB may pale to thunderclaps like the launch of iPad-only newspaper the Daily or an...
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Google Just Announced Plans To Be A Cable TV... →
Google posted a pretty amazing list of TV networks that will participate. The kind you can only get from your cable or satellite providers.” Google Fiber TV service will be HD quality and include a DVR that lets you record up to 500 hours of shows in full HDTV. It will also offer apps for the iPad and for Android tablets.
This high speed Internet service plus TV will cost $120 a month.
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Facebook Teaming Up With Television to Become Your... →
“With traditional media struggling to keep an audience and Facebook facing continuing issues with its sagging stock price and the need to retain users, the partnerships might be less a new-media tool and more a means of survival.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company has cut four separate partnerships with media organizations this year. In January, NBC and Facebook held a joint GOP primary debate in...
Today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the... →
more ouch
“I see Microsoft as technology’s answer to Sears,” said Kurt Massey, a former senior marketing manager. “In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Sears had it nailed. It was top-notch, but now it’s just a barren wasteland. And that’s Microsoft. The company just isn’t cool anymore.”
Cool is what tech consumers want. Exhibit A: today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.
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Microsoft’s Lost Decade →
ouch ouch ouch
Microsoft’s low-octane swan song was nothing if not symbolic of more than a decade littered with errors, missed opportunities, and the devolution of one of the industry’s innovators into a “me too” purveyor of other companies’ consumer products. Over those years, inconsequential pip-squeaks and onetime zombies—Google, Facebook, Apple—roared ahead, transforming the...
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Twitter, Hollywood Working on In-Stream Video... →
interesting to see that Twitter - now a “tech company in the media business” is not content with being the second screen but aims to be the first
Forget the debate over whether Twitter wants to get in the media business. Twitter wants to be a media player.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based company, along with multiple Hollywood producers and network execs, are in serious talks about the...
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HBO snubs Netflix advances →
“HBO snubs Netflix advances
HBO has ruled out a content partnership with VoD platform Netflix, as the latter prepares to launch into a new international market later this year.
In a letter to shareholders announcing the company’s return to global profitability in the second quarter of 2012, CEO Reed Hastings and chief financial officer David Wells outlined their hopes to work with the...
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Movie Studios: Have They Gone the Way of... →
Ben Silverman, Chairman of multi-media producer Electus recently keynoted a Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Los Angeles.
Ben noted that 100 years ago in order to make a film you needed 50 acres of land in the San Fernando Valley, an army of various craftsmen, sprawling soundstages, expensive specialized cameras, film labs and more.
He went on to say that in order to produce a film today...
The Triumph of Canadian Socialism →
I do think it’s a shame Americans aren’t more curious about what goes on in Canada: There’s a lot to learn, especially from its health-care system. But you can also exaggerate the differences—as people in both countries are apt to do. General government spending in the United States was 41.9% of GDP in 2011; in Canada it was 43.2%. (In 2007, before the recession...
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America’s economy is once again reinventing itself →
New strengths have also been found. One is a more dynamic export sector. The weaker dollar helps explain why the trade deficit has shrunk from 6% of GDP in 2006 to about 4% today. But other, more permanent, shifts—especially the growth of a consuming class in emerging markets—augur well. On the campaign trail, both parties attack China as a currency-fiddling, rule-breaking supplier of cheap...
Boom Tube: How Viki Is Creating The Global Hulu →
Pay TV revs to grow 13.5% by 2017 - LatAm to grow... →
The Brazilian pay-tv market is already on a growth streak, it’ll become the 3rd largest pay tv market worldwide.
Global pay TV revenues will only grow by 13.5% between 2011 and 2017, according to a report.
But while revenues are expected to fall in the U.S. due to competition and more homes taking pay TV, broadband and telephony in one package, Latin America will enjoy a 57.7% increase,...
YouTube preps French premium nets via @C21Media →
YouTube is planning to launch its original channels initiative in France, with 13 professionally-produced channels to go live in October, according to a local report.
The selection process is almost complete, with producers such as Endemol and Kabo – which co-produces M6 comedy Scenes de Menages – said to be in the picture as possible partners, French newspaper Le Figaro reported yesterday.
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@mikemonello and @goonth on Netflix, Hulu,...
@mikemonello the break-even on most YT premium channels is 500mm impressions. that’s enormous. and a sign of weak net effect.Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on PinterestShare on Google+Share on LinkedinShare by emailGunther SonnenfeldFri, Jul 06 2012 07:32:39ReplyRetweet0
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comments @mikemonello and if this was the case for YT now, it could monetize smaller, niche...
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ITV: Social media has saved linear TV →
“Social media has come to the rescue of linear television by turning programmes into must-see events, delegates here have been told.
Alberto Barreiro, head of experience for ITV online and on-demand, said the broadcaster was “trying to understand what is the role of a broadcaster in a digital world,” where “both linear and VoD are perfectly valid and have to live together.”
ITV has...
BBC News - How mobile puts business at the tip of... →
Across the African continent, internet penetration is low, computers are often too expensive to purchase, and online business transactions can be logistically complicated to execute.
But the surge in mobile phone use - there are currently 695 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa - has given Africans a simple and pervasive means of sharing information and conducting business.
In...
It is Time to Hack the Future of TV →
The next battleground in this dawning era is the television. And the future is not in the hands of network television conglomerates, reality stars or video-streaming services.
It is in the hands of developers.
Think about it. The TV is the last great untapped platform. Some efforts have been made to create smart, internet-connected TVs, but no company or developer yet has had any...
Netflix Gains as Online Viewing Surges: San... →
Netflix Inc. (NFLX), the online and mail- order video service, rose after saying that Internet viewing topped a record 1 billion hours in June.
Netflix, based in Los Gatos, California, climbed 6.2 percent to $72.04 at the close, its biggest gain since May 23. The shares have gained 4 percent this year.
Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings, in a posting on his Facebook page today,...
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LIBOR scandal - canary in the coal mine ? →
more from the chief conductors of the Titanic er the City of London:
Lord Adair Turner, head of the Financial Services Authority (on whose watch the Libor rate-rigging took place), has just condemned the scandal - and admitted that the true scale of City wrongdoing is much greater.
Turner told the FSA’s public meeting this morning that the full investigation into what went wrong will take...
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Barclays blames 'senior Whitehall figures' for... →
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott has swiftly welcomed the news of Bob Diamond’s resignation, and again called for prosecutions against those responsible for the Libor scandal.
Oakeshott told Sky News:
This is a great day. Bob Diamond was the greedy gambler, personified.
What really matters now is that the criminals inside Barclays, that they are charged and they are convicted and...
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Bankers and the neuroscience of greed The... →
On 11 August 2011, Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, delivered the BBC Today Programme business lecture. In it he declared that “culture” was the critical element in responsible banking, and the best test of it is “how people behave while no one is watching.” We now know that banking failed the test and so must ask why, in Sir Mervyn King’s words,...
GroupM: UK TV and press ad revenues 'to fall by... →
“Sir Martin Sorrell’s Group M predicts slide in traditional media – but says digital will more than make up the shortfall.
Sir Martin Sorrell’s Group M estimates that TV and press advertising revenues will fall by more than £350m in the UK during 2012, despite any windfalls generated by Euro 2012 and the London Olympics.
However, the slump in print and broadcast will be more...
Probably Brilliant: The story where my cousin sees... →
where the power of movie marketing is rendered nil……
1happyst:
My cousin Steve was telling me a story over the weekend about how he and his wife saw Magic Mike by accident.
“Yeah right, by accident,” I said.
“No it’s true,” said Steve’s wife. “I can vouch for this.”
Now I’m intrigued. Take it away Steve…
“So yesterday [Friday], I’m at…
The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity -... →
If a financial system can’t undertake that simple task effectively — if the price of money is fixed like a roulette wheel stuck on red — all else must necessarily fail: investment must become malinvestment, speculation must precede creation, “profit” must become divorced from benefit, and wealth is effectively transferred from poor to rich, in a form of quiet but lethally effective...
