You Tube: A dominant role in the movie ecosystem? Not Likely...
October 14, 2009
YouTube Explores Renting Movies Online | www.businessweek.com
You Tube might capture some of the movie distribution market if and only if they are able to work closely with the studios to develop a model that is beneficial to both the studios and consumer. Stiff competition awaits You Tube from multiple angles, not all movie industry related. The consumer, and...
Generating Revenue for a Troubled Publishing Industry
September 16, 2009
Creating Lead-Gen-Engine | www.foliomag.com
The publishing industry, particularly magazines have been harder hit then most in this recession. It doesn't look like it will come back when the economy recovers. How do you bring this revenue up if you hold equity in publishing properties? One solution is to find ways to generate leads for ROI focused...
August 25, 2009
New Zune Undercuts Apple's iPod Prices | online.wsj.com
In my opinion, Zune has an uphill battle to try and capture the digital music market from Apple. Zune has significant challenges that will be very hard to over come. The primary challenge is a powerful thing called "brand" that drives every mass market trend and wallet.
Why "Traditional" Media Are Doomed
June 25, 2009
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: Traditional media will not bounce back | www.guardian.co.uk
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is the 2009 Media Person of the Year. He says that traditional media can no longer succeed by replicating their print content online. If you want to reach consumers online, "static content won't cut it." That's why the old approaches are doomed to fail.
Will Online Readers Buy Into Steve's Brill-iant Idea?
June 25, 2009
Journalism Online: The Answer to the Paid-Content Question? | www.editorandpublisher.com
Steve Brill's new startup Journalism Online is promising newspaper publishers big money from online readers -- $110 million in two years for a newspaper with a print circulation of 1 million and an online audience of 20 million. Will he succeed? And if he does, will you be one ofthe...
Can Newspapers Morph Into "Fearless Vampire Killers"?
June 24, 2009
WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’ | www.crainsnewyork.com
The days of free newspaper content on the internet may be coming to an end... but only if consumers can be persuaded to pay.
June 18, 2009
Ancillary Revenue Now Essential | www.nxtbook.com
To survive today and in the future publishers must be in the media business not the publishing business. They must offer a wide variety of products to their customers that meet the needs of today. These are dramatically different from what has made traditional publishers successful...
Small Market Radio - Better Days Are Coming
June 17, 2009
In Radio These Days, Small Is Better | online.wsj.com
Small market radio stations are best poised to come out of this economic downturn. Localism is a key driver, especially since newspapers are disappearing.
April 5, 2009
WHDH-TV snubs Leno as 10 p.m. | www.boston.com
What's the rush to publicly announce this? Probably not a good move on the station's part.
A LITTLE OPTIMISM FOR LOCAL TV & RADIO
March 25, 2009
Measuring Newspaper’s Decline | www.rbr.com
The web is great for aggregating national news but does not address local needs the way newspapers used to. Operative words are "used to" as the universe of newspapers is rapidly shrinking.
AT&T, Inc. versus Verizon Wireless – Misleading Information? Wow!!!
November 4, 2009
The Effects of US Hispanic Media Concentration for Advertisers and Investors
November 3, 2009
Good news for both the Data Loss Prevention and the Encryption Marketplace
November 3, 2009
Apple Gets a Lukewarm Reception in China – Is Anyone Surprised? I Am Not
November 2, 2009
The European Commission's Own 2.6GHz Band Decision Is Seriously Flawed
November 3, 2009
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