Apple’s Brilliant JUDO Moves > Launches Subscriptions For Content-Publishers On The App Store
Reading the multitude of stories around Apple’s announcement of subscription (30% take!!) programs for publishers. What strikes me here is the elegance of the ultimate market judo executed by Apple over just a (2003-2011) very short period of time. Here is how it looks to me: 2003 In the face of a clear … Read more
Hedge Fund Bloodsport: Turner Chief Explains How TV Industry Will Neutralize Netflix | paidContent
MD: Hedge Funds….start your engines…. How few times in history you get to see true entrenched incumbents, multi-billion dollar companies on the precipice of repeating the VERY same mistakes as their brethren in related industries (who had even more of a monopoly) – and the veritable windfall that can be had from anticipating their mis-steps … Read more
Netflix CEO: ‘We Are Now a Streaming Company’: Video «
Netflix CEO: ‘We Are Now a Streaming Company’: Video «. Congrats to Reed on a very successful transition in a very tenuous marketplace. – MD Netflix now considers itself a “streaming company which also offers DVDs by mail,” according to CEO Reed Hastings in the management commentary that accompanies its third-quarter earnings release. According to … Read more
The Insanity Of Music Licensing: In One Single Graphic | Techdirt
Having developed one of the first Music Industry licenses for digital way back in 1999 – I couldn’t pass-up the chance to re-post this. – MD The Insanity Of Music Licensing: In One Single Graphic | Techdirt. from the duct-tape-upon-duct-tape dept The history of music licensing is a messy one, but the short version is … Read more
YouTube Declares Victory In Viacom Case | paidContent
A Huge Victory for GoogTube today, and an important enforcement of fundamental DMCA regulation. Most definitely, Viacom appears to be the traditional media company that drew the short straw – “getting” to sue while others got paid in advance of the GOOG acquisition – but even more interesting is the apparent confusion on Viacom’s side … Read more
Terra Firma Seeking $160 Million In Life Support For EMI | paidContent
Terra Firma Seeking $160 Million In Life Support For EMI | paidContent. The largest music company in the world, at the late stages of the wrong-side of creative destruction. As the music industry has been the proverbial “Canary in the Coal Mine” for the larger creative destruction process that has and will continue to occur … Read more
The cockeyed economics of metering reading « BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis
The cockeyed economics of metering reading « BuzzMachine. Brilliant commentary from Jeff Jarvis on the continuing struggles of the print machine to find a business model in the rapidly changing world of their audience. The irony of the report that The New York Times is going to start metering readers and charging those who come … Read more
CHART OF THE DAY: Internet Advertising Ready To Take More Money Away From Newspapers
CHART OF THE DAY: Internet Advertising Ready To Take More Money Away From Newspapers. The Internet is hogging more of our time than ever, but advertisers aren’t spending an equally proportional amount of their budgets on the web, notes JP Morgan’s Imran Khan in a report he put out this week. As you can see, … Read more
