We’re all familiar with the modern “selfie” and have seen how celebs, businesses, teenagers, young professionals and pretty much everyone else in the world is using them to self-promote or share their lives in some way. Remember Ellen’s famous selfie at the Oscar’s? Or when Space Station astronaut Aki Hoshide snapped a picture of himself floating […]
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Summary of “OTT’s Advertising Problem” a paper published by Fierce Online Video
April 19, 2017 
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Here’s an Executive Summary of a white paper just published by Fierce Online Video. VOD’s Vicious Cycle The OTT market is exploding; the associated ad market is not. And, may never! Challenges? (1) Ad-blocking (2) Ad-fraud (3) Measurement Premium AVOD (ad-based VOD) is caught a vicious cycle: >> Viewers love Netflix-style content – expensive! >> […]
Continue readingPANEL: The Long-tail of Live Sports: Coming to #DigitalHollywood! This Wed 4/29 at 1045am at Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey
April 26, 2015 0 Comments
Digital Hollywood Sports Next http://www.digitalhollywood.com/sportsnext.html Date: Wednesday April 29th Time: 10:45am – Noon Title: The Long-tail of Live Sports – How to make it great; How to cultivate an audience; How to pay for it Abstract: We’ll talk about (1) great live sports production at a fraction of the cost of broadcast (2) traditional and […]
Continue readingHey TV Nets: The Whipclip Revolution is here! Let’s Reward the Legal Approach
March 26, 2015 2 Comments
Whipclip won’t be the first entrant in the live TV clipping market, but it is decisively the most important. ABC, CBS, FOX, VH1, A&E Network, Lifetime, Bloomberg, and Turner are on board – but for how many shows? And what about sports?
Continue reading 7 Reasons #NABShow beats #CES and #SXSW
March 24, 2015 4 Comments
In “The Purpose of Silicon Valley,” MIT Tech Review author Michael Malone talks of a geeky debate happening in the Valley these days. The question? Are we losing our purpose? Social networking apps are fun, the argument goes, but global hunger isn’t yet solved – and tech startups need to be involved in those problems. […]
Continue readingMeerkan’t: Why Meerkat won’t be the app that defines Now-casting
March 17, 2015 2 Comments
Edited: Title changed – Fail was too strong a word – congrats to you guys Meerkat! But here’s why I think you won’t be worth bajillions. I love live streaming. I love selfies. And I love social networks. But Meerkat? That’s not a name that’s going to stick. Let me qualify: Social selfie streaming […]
Continue reading“This is huge.” Eddy Cue is right. The death of the TV bundle is near.
March 9, 2015 2 Comments
TV insiders have always felt that HBO was one of the most important elements for holding the bundle together. Last fall, in a watershed announcement, HBO announced it would offer a direct to consumer OTT service. But there wasn’t much to comment about – since no details were released. Well, now we have commercial terms – and […]
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