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Which once again shows that if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail, and if you have a media company, everything looks like media. But the digital revolution isn't a media revolution: the web is a social phenomenon, not a media phenomenon or a t
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Because old media, and even middle age media, isn’t getting the job done. Consider this fact. 90% of all email, by recent estimates, is spam, probably closer to 95%. That would explain why open rates for email have consistently been falling. Direct mail
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Secondly, scale for us, and me, doesn’t really mean traffic, or for that matter, scaled revenues...it means influence. The people who cut the checks for everyone else in this industry, including any and all of the consultants writing about this industry
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The biggest argument for hyper aggregation is modern life’s biggest constraint: time. No one can argue about the value of niche content, especially for niche-ists. However, most of the population at large falls in the middle. There is a desire to get th
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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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The wise magazine will enable its community to speak among themselves. And it will also find ways to extract and share the wisdom of its crowd. This is true not just of magazines but of other, similar brands in other media
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he challenge for media companies is to find the right balance between participation and control, outsourcing and editorial guidance, openness and order. The walls between content creation and commerce are also falling away, as we’ve seen with everyth
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They're not scared of the UGC as much as they are of losing control. This line -- we want our brand in the marketplace presented in a certain way -- is the very heart of what's under assault in the Media 2.0 space.
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In the past, we built business cases based on ROI. Now we build it and build the business afterwards. In the past, "everything is forbidden unless it’s permitted." Now everything is permitted unless forbidden. Scarcity is about paternalism, a decision t
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One of the tricks to understanding the social value of the web is understanding the antisocial value of the web - how much value it delivers by helping us avoid unwanted, intrusive interactions that merely increase psychological transaction costs.
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Medienmarken können Zusatzgeschäfte tragen. Aber die Zusatzgeschäfte können kein absterbendes Stammgeschäft kompensieren. Irgendwann stirbt auch die Medienmarke. Der Mehrwert der gebotenen Information muss demnach unmittelbar erkennbar sein. Wie dies
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But the next deal, probably for Facebook, is going to come in at a higher cost -- probably at an unsustainable cost. There are just to many people desperate not to miss the social networking train before it leaves the station.
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The Internet is changing the economics of creative work - or, to put it more broadly, the economics of culture - and it's doing it in a way that may well restrict rather than expand our choices.
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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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Welche Krise der unkende Politiker ausgemacht haben will, blieb aber unklar. Denn mit Vehemenz erklärte Holtzbrinck-Geschäftsführer Prof. Michael Grabner: „Die Zeitungen sind überhaupt nicht in der Krise.“
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At Facebook, MySpace and NBC are users “in control,” or are users being controlled by multi-million dollar corporate brand messages? Far from being in control, YouTubers were required to create content about NBC, for NBC and promoting NBC.
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Media companies are mostly vertical. They produce shows (or control the independant companies that do), market them, deliver them, sell ads, everything that touches their pipe, soup to nuts, they do.valuable virtual pipes - virtual media
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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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Vermittlung der gesellschaftlichen Kommunikationen anderer Akteure: Der Kommunikationsprozess ist hier ein Many-to-Many-Prozess. Massenmedien sind hier (technische) Vermittler. „Beobachter zweiter Ordnung“: Beobachtung, Synthetisierung der gesellscha
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At the moment barriers to entry in many online verticals are artifically low because attention is being allocated inefficiently by incumbents who associate relevance only with context or limited consumer insight.
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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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Viacom has the richest resource of short-form, high-production-quality videos in the media world. To such ends, he needs to unlock his video vaults and lead the market of MySpace competitors by giving each and every one a knife to fight with.
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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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Hinweise und Regeln, wie die alten Denkweisen überwunden werden können und News in einer Welt des User Generated Contents überleben können. TV News müssen innovativer und offener werden
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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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By social media we mean all the ways in which media, entertainment and information (MEI) industries are colliding with users as part of the mix. Another way of looking at it: Social media is a mix of genuine grassroots efforts to create media through comm
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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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Die Idee des personalisierten TV, das keine allgemeine „Prime Time“ kennt und Werbeblöcke überspringt, bringt die Finanzierung des klassischen TV ins Wanken.
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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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People don't want to link to media like audio and video (and photos), they want to run it right there on their own pages. They want to be the TV station, the radio station, the newspaper. Der MySpace Musikplayer mit seiner Add-Funktion ist der Goldstandar
