All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Media

Spanish Language audiences prefer their own language when watching movies and television. Panama, the crossroads of the Americas, is building a state of the art digital film studio to compete with Hollywood productions. If current trends continue more Americans will be watching Spanish language films...

CNN’s expansion to the I-Report hub has implications for pursuing the Google model. CNN develops loyal users rather than mere viewers, and increases the potential for advertising.

PricewaterhouseCoopers expects the entertainment and media industry in Europe to grow with a CAGR of 4.9 per cent until 2011 (Germany 3.0). The sectors to grow strongest are internet with a CAGR of 10.0 percent (Germany 5.5), video games with 9.6 (Germany 6.6), and tv with 6.6 (Germany 3.8). The sectors...

The existing agencies of ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations) and BARB (British Audience Research Bureau) naturally want to extend their franchise to any form a measureable medium, but don't seem willing to accept that technology implicit in the delivery platform already produces all the answers. Improbably,...

No impact on marketplace but... is drawing attention to the gap between consumer demand and Blockbuster/Netflix services... is indicative of lack of understanding of the media consumer.

Nielsen reports that Spanish language media advertising is up 2.7% in 2007, with most of the gain attributed to cable television advertising.

This proposal could have a serious impact on cable, already fighting both satellite and telcos for customers. Satellite is the weaker of the two competitos because its ability to offer data and voice is quite limited. Telcos can offer triple play and are a serious challenge. This proposal is likely...

Rupert Murdoch’s willingness to repair what already works incredibly well ignores the proven success of the subscription-content model. Murdoch is famously hands-on with his media properties. This is one case in which a demonstrated success should be left to be even more successful.

Cable companies will continue to lose subscribers to AT&T and Verizon. They will have to share more of their programming with their competitors on nondiscriminatory terms and the FCC will scrutinize their deals much more closely than it has in the past. Comcast will be barred from acquiring any...

News Corp buying The Wall Street Journal might have implications for the MySpace and Google alliance being repeated with the WSJ Website and mobilized under the Android platform.