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A hope that focusing on producing entertainment that people actually want to watch/view/hear/play can be put off indefinitely, and existing (dwindling) assets harvested instead. For the Express, that asset is a loyal readership and brand equity, both of w
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1. Ownership or control of Intellectual Property by the corporation. 2. Ownership or control of expensive distribution networks. 3. Established business models based on highly evolved approaches to advertising and subscription models.
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The same applies to local newsgathering. Reporters have recorders for interviews. Some interviews could easily be expanded to include video. Should the reporters be required to not only write a story, but also edit the audio and even video of an interview
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It was the most profitable industry in the economy. The reason, ultimately, was simple: media was protected like almost no other sector. Some media markets, like newspapers, were natural monopolies, because of simple geography. Others, like radio and TV,
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TV and radio audiences have been declining in the U.S. Movie ticket sales peaked in 2002, and magazine and newspaper circulations have been trending lower for half a decade, with revenue and earnings growth stagnating.
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Hollywood's options: Buy a site; allow fans to remix your content; produce shorter films and do it quickly.
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The greatest hope of most Web professionals is to continue working online and to be paid what they are worth while doing so. Right now... you can make money. But you can't make what you are worth... yet.
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Economy of Abundance -- don't do one thing, do it all; don't sell one piece of content, sell it all; don't store one piece of data, store it all. The Economy of Abundance is about doing everything and throwing away the stuff that doesn't work. In the Econ
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In a world of not only plenty but the eventual time-shifting – everything will be time-shifted – you’ll be the editor and the master of your own stuff. The single channel, general entertainment approach [isn’t valuable].
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This is good news. This means that we can eliminate incredible costs — and with them, the bureacrats and time-wasters and creativity-killers they support — in the making of media, both news and entertainment.
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The right answer is to GO WIDE. It's time to get horizontal. Let me say that again. It's the ability to both run programs inside the browser window AND allow for applications to pass information to each other that allows media on the Web to organize into
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Yup, Media is about controlling pipes and Technology is (now) about horizontal layers, and on the Web, with all those packets whizzing around like bumper cars, there are no natural end to end pipes to be found. So, can you construct a virtual pipe and act
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Media brands are increasingly defined by communities, and now anyone – from individuals to software companies – can create a media brand. What’s changed is not the importance or the role of media brands, but rather what defines a media brand and wha
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First, switching costs into and out of channels are falling. As channels become intrusively commercialised they will simply be discarded in favour of less polluted channels because the switching costs are lower than the costs of trying to use a medium tha
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Control the pipe and you've got an economic engine to run ads against your content, charge subscriptions, sell voice calls and charge per minute - the world is your oyster. No pipes, no moguls, no media?
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Web 2.0 works great as an ideology, but maybe not so great as the basis for a media economy. Less control = less profit.Why did Google buy YouTube? Because they have to own it to control it, and they need to control it in order to monetize it.
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But the greater strength and power lies in the small group conversations and communications. A video of myself saying hello to my ma is great for me and my family. One million greetings like that are a business model. And it’s media, too. Just micro tar
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1 - Microchunk it - Reduce the content to its simplest form. 2 - Free it - Put it out there without walls around it or strings on it. 3 - Syndicate it - Let anyone take it and run with it. 4 - Monetize it - Put the monetization and tracking systems into
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openness is required to leverage the network effect of the Web and harness the power of socially-connected users, but control is required to get a share of any money that changes hands.but the truth is that nobody has demonstrated yet how to maximize prof
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Die großen Medienhäuser müssen Socialmedia verstehen. Die Konsumenten wollen Bandbreite, Tools, Content und Erträge. Die Zeiten des direkten Erlöses sind vorbei. Socialmedia schafft indirekte Werte.
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There is an opportunity for a single entity — call it media, marketing services, agency, whatever — to help companies connect with current and prospective customers through meaningful brand experiences and to empower those customers to participate in
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Many media companies, recognising the potential of the internet to disrupt their traditional businesses, have made, or are considering making, acquisitions to boost their web activities.
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Analysts expect NBC’s digital initiatives to generate $1bn in revenues by 2009, up from $200m this year, and to generate margins of 35 to 40 per cent.
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I think the real winners long-term will be platforms that enable a new generation of content producers to break free from the old media content hierarchy and make money from their creativity. As Umair reminds us, it’s all about enabling creativity.
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Wir sind in einem Übergangstadium vom Zentralisierten zum Rand. Momentan gewinnen die Zentralisierten die den Rand füttern und unterstützen. Irgendwann ist jedoch alles am Rand, denn dort wird der Wert geschaffen.
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Die traditionellen Medien sehen solangsam ein, dass sie keine Wachstumsunternehmen mehr sind und verlegen sich daher eher darauf den Anlegern ihre Investition zurück zuzahlen.
