Hey CW. I know you’re still invested in the old skool model of TV, but viewers are viewers. Pulling the online streams of Gossip Girl is not going to drive DVD sales or any other ancillary revenue. You have an online hit on your hands, you shouldn’t take it away from that audience. Sell ads [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 28, 2008
My Thinking on the CEOs Talk (Right Now)
First let’s presume each of these people will be responsible for a company that has around $100 Billion in gross revenue. So to grow their businesses even by a single percent they need to bring in $1 Billion in bacon. With those types of numbers, it’s going to be hard to get them excited about [...]
April 23, 2008
What Would You Say To CEOs?
Sorry for the blogorrhea today, but we had an interesting call with the folks at Google Europe who are organizing the Zeigeist conference next month. We agreed to it a while ago (free trip to Europe! and I’ve never been). But today we got the scoop on the audience and how we’d be participating. This [...]
April 23, 2008
RIP PodShow
Daisy reports: Podcast provider PodShow is relaunching its service today as Mevio with a focus on original episodic content programmed for the Internet, the company said. Mevio said it will offer “millions” of hours of episodic programming, videos and music centered around a social media experience. Meh. Natali Del Conte was the best thing that [...]
April 23, 2008
We Need Better Healthcare
Reading about Health Care: It is never a good thing if many of your customers can no longer afford what you are selling. The UnitedHealth Group, which announced disappointing first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, said the weakening economy was causing fewer businesses and employees to sign up for its health insurance. One of the great reliefs [...]
April 14, 2008
F*ck Family Hour, Srlsy
Nytimes gets it’s old media panties in a bunch. Thursday’s episodes of “30 Rock” and “The Office,” the first new installments to be broadcast since the end of the writers’ strike, each included coy references to a vulgarity: in one case it was bleeped out; in the other it was winked at in an acronym. [...]
April 11, 2008
Media Status Quo, Who Wants It and Who Doesn’t
We’re away writing the Tomatoes feature right now, but these two articles caught my eye. First Jackson West Probes Why Online Video Hasn’t Reinvented Hollywood yet: I’m the first to admit that I wanted to see the Web kill Hollywood. It just ain’t happening. It’s finally dawned on the studios that you can now pay [...]
April 1, 2008
Series Done Right: Maria Bamford Show
Awesome. The perfect resume show. Funny and well executed. from www.superdeluxe.com posted with vodpod
April 1, 2008
New Media is Loaves and Fishes
Yuri writes: Mostly because our biggest views and biggest audience comes from YouTube, our dedicated fans go to the Break a Leg site, sure, but as the article states, we have nearly 2.5 million views on YouTube and around 500,000 on Blip.tv, which is the main host on our website. As someone from YouTube once [...]
