All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Media

1. iTunes is cannibalizing NBC home video sales.    2. Apple’s solution: open an iTunes rental / Video-on-Demand platform.

New forecast from the Television Advertising Bureau (TVB) predicts possible double-digit growth for advertising. Report could help push through some station sales by the end of the year.

In a new media buyer survey: More than 75% of media buyers expect declines in newspaper circulation to accelerate.  64% expect broadcast ratings to decline this season.  Among magazines, teen, celebrity, women’s and business titles are at most risk.

Google News has cut the digital cord between newspapers and their AP articles.  This gives Google a new ad revenue opportunity – and only increases the need for newspapers to deliver relevant, involving and original content of their own.

How quickly we forget. Apple lost the computer operating system war when it chose to try to “force” customers to buy its hardware to utilize its clearly superior operating system. Microsoft took the opposite approach. In this example, we have the benefit of history to tell us who was right. But Apple...

A recognition by one of the leading market analysis and trends reporting services is an indication that Hispanics are here to stay and prosper. The inclusion of the Hispanic community into the main Nielson rating system could simply be rationalized as a cost cutting and efficiency measure, however,...

Apple has a very simple outlook on content delivery, music 99 cents, video $1.99. But the owners of the content want a different compensation package. The war has started in earnest.

Nielsen's decision to include Spanish Language television stations in the same context as English-language stations is an important step for the SL television industry.   This move will ultimately help ease some of the imbalance that exists in terms of Spanish Language-English Language television...

Minorities are rapidly becoming an economic forceThe telecom community will soon target market the minority populationMinorities will no longer be treated as a niche. The established telecom carriers may soon recognize that the minority population is an underserved market that needs to be paid attention...

There are some heinous and egregious practices by some card issuers. Most are aimed at obfuscating and complicating the process for consumers to understand how they are subjected to fees or interest rate hikes. Regulatory bodies are taking action against unfair practices in the credit card industry,...