GLG News by In-Lobby Cinema Advertising Experts

1. MySpace may be closing the gap (in some respects) with Google/YouTube     2. News Corp. understands that advertisers are looking for more than just web traffic.

The world will eventually move to digital cinema exhibition. It is a matter of when not if and how long it will take. At issue from the start of the transition has been who is going to pay. The exhibitors do not want to spend a lot of money just to save the distributors/studios their print costs. As...

1. Many consumers are looking to Apple iPhone to redefine phones as the Apple iPod did Mp3 players 2. Will the iPhone help reverse AT&T’s declining share in new mobile customers?

1.  What do the puzzling moves of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp mean for Social Networking, MySpace and Facebook?     2.  Is it time for a broader News Corp digital / media strategy?     

Alternative content is a great concept for idle capacity in the nation’s movie theaters and is enabled due to the transition to digital cinema. It will be a while before this concept is proven or disproven. The reasons are simple: there has not been much alternative content and the theaters, used to...

Beyond DVR ratings, the broadcast networks are recognizing that the Internet is the new window for revenue.

Blockbuster has announced that it will offer all new high definition DVDs in the Blu Ray format on an exclusive basis. Whether or not this is a blockbuster decision by Blockbuster as it relates to the Sony led format remains to be seen. And this will not necessarily spell the doom of the Toshiba led...

Can MusicStation, a phone based music service backed by Motorola, Samsung, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music, beat Apple’s iTunes / iPhone combination?

By most standards, U2 is a leader in all aspects of the entertainment business, but when major players such as James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis, Disney, DreamWorks and others are involved in 3D stereoscopic movies, U2 is just another name on the list. U2 was at Cannes...

1. Research In Motion Ltd.(RIM), Motorola and Nokia Corp have been eating into Palm’s handheld organizer business with sophisticated phone and email devices for years. 2. Palm was late in recognizing that RIM’s Blackberry was a competitor to its organizer and smartphone business. 3. Palm has created...