There’s been a ton of debate over the value, or lack thereof, of “content farms”. The company Demand Media has served as a lightning rod in the debate drawing both ire and praise from media pundits and investors. If you’re not familiar with Demand Media and other content farm operations, the model is based on generating cheap [...]
Category: Media Business
The Wonder Wall Part II
Last summer I wrote a post called “The Wonder Wall” where I mused about the future of pay walls for content sites. Since then The New York Times and other sites have launched pay walls to great fan fare. How are they doing? It’s tough to tell given the scarcity of public numbers on pay [...]
Rupe Was Robbed. Tales From The Front Lines of the iPad App Economy
If you were launching a daily newspaper today $30m would not be an outrageous sum of money to be spending. What would be outrageous is that you were launching a daily newsPAPER. Spending $30m to create an iPad newspaper application is ludicrous. With substantial fanfare, Rupert Murdoch recently launched The Daily an iPad and tablet [...]
Search to Social to Schmidt to Page
The shift from Eric Schmidt to Larry Page as CEO of Google is more than simply a change of leadership. It represents the broader shift in the center of gravity of the web from search to social. The surprising announcement in the change at the top of Google this week has created all sorts of [...]
Media, Marketing & Technology In 2010
2010 has been an incredible year. It went by in a blink. The year started out with feelings of fear and dread and is ending with feelings of excitement and optimism. 2010 will be remembered as the year the media industry stopped talking about media transformation and started embracing it. As I noted in my [...]
Google’s Eric Schmidt On Goin Mobile, Apple & Personal Privacy
If traffic is the metric of popularity, then our Web 2.0 Summit interview with Google CEO Eric Schimdt suggests he is still the most popular guy in the Internet economy. Our discussion with Schmidt, led by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, received the most traffic during the livecast and continues to be the most viewed [...]
Zuckerberg Grows Up
Mark Zuckerberg is becoming a CEO before our very eyes. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook has been a participant at our Web 2.0 Summit Conference for the last several years. This year however, in a discussion on stage with John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, we saw Zuckerberg 2.0. A more mature, confident and articulate leader. Yes [...]
The Wonderwall
“I said maybe, you’re the one to save me. And after all, you’re my wonderwall”. The chorus from the hit song ”Wonderwall” by the band Oasis seems to have been written for today’s daily newspaper industry. The New York Times went public this week with their plans for a paywall starting in January 2011. The Financial Times an early pioneer [...]
The Media Company of the Future
At some point “New Media” is no longer new. “Emerging Media” emerges. Describing the revolutionary trends that have been driving the media industry over the last decade as either ”new” or “emerging” is inaccurate and misleading. Media companies have either embraced and harnessed digital platforms and technology or they haven’t. The Internet revolution has resulted in 4 types of media companies today: The Dead, The [...]
The Media-Application Era Has Arrived
The first phase of online media was defined by “Reach”.Value was based on unique visitor reach and the page views generated. The second phase was defined by ”Search”, where value was derived by optimizing content to drive search results. We are now officially in the “Media-Application” era, where value is created by engaging audiences around applications of content and services that become [...]
