April 23, 2024
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Maybe it’s a blip. Maybe we’ll see the global stock market plunge of the last week as a hysterical overreaction to China’s economic woes. Or maybe, it’s the unwelcome, but real, signal that the economic recovery that the U.S. – and lately Europe – have enjoyed may be compromised. Certainly, ...
Read MoreConsider them Ponce de Leon investments. Just as the Spanish explorer trawled Florida for the Fountain of Youth 500 years ago, NBC-Universal and its peers are now embarking on expensive voyages to seek a solution to aging and death, investing in and buying into the newest media. Their profound ...
Read MoreToday, TV is no longer a box. Sure, even with all the Rokus, Boxees, and Apple TVs, it seems like TV isn’t yet an out-of-the-box experience. But with Hulu, Netflix, and Comcast’s Xfinity, it’s emerging quickly, escaping our fixed idea of what it once was — the boob tube in the living room. If ...
Read MoreSo let’s look broadly at those numbers. Count them all up — and undoubtedly, numerous ones are missing — and you’ve got something more than 65,000 journalists, working for brands of one kind or another.
Read MoreNews Corp.'s Avatar has taken in $2.75 billion. Compare that financial flexibility with the Times, and it’s night and day. The Times Co.’s total 2009 revenues: $2.4 billion, less than Avatar itself has produced.
Read MoreWhy it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million. 2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world. 3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape. 4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
Read MoreOld, analog, one-to-many, non-customized media -- whether broadcast TV or newspapers or newsmagazines -- are a nice fit for those who spent decades with them. Given a choice, though, younger entertainment and news consumers are gravitating to digital sources, whether music players, smartphones, ...
Read MoreFor the Times, Thought Equity Motion will take about two years of news video, from the time when the company started to produce video in earnest, and enable their greater re-use. The Times hopes that digitization will open the door to wider web usage and greater monetization.
Read MoreABC announced a deal with Healthline, to supply health content and increase its yield on some ad inventory. We'll see lots more of these deals, as the big brands -- from CBS using GlobalPost, Reuters using Politico, the New York Times using the Chicago News Cooperative and many more -- take ...
Read MoreBehind what we see, though, are some critical developments in processing of digital video, the behind-the-scenes heavy lifting that often determines time-to-market, and business failure or success. We can get a glimpse into that with the Times’ recently announced deal with Thought Equity Motion ...
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