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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When a Subscriber is Not a Customer: Surviving the Unbundling of TV – July column for Sports Video Group
July 20, 2015 
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Read the full Sports Video Group Digital column Two Thursday’s ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a great piece on the pay-TV biz. It seems the most revered, profitable media brand in sports history is facing turbulence as the bundled–pay-TV cord begins to fray. ESPN’s subscriber numbers have declined 7.2% since 2011, according to Nielsen data. […]
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 readingWhat’s next for Twitter? Here’s my advice. MobileMarketer.com article extract.
April 23, 2015 0 Comments
I’ve become even more bullish post-NAB on the importance of a set of behaviors I call #SocialTV. Sure, I know others feel differently, but here’s my view: #SocialTV is the hashtag for social mobile video native. (Marissa Mayer called this segment ‘MaVeNS’ on her last call with Wall Street.) It’s a broad set of themes and growing use cases […]
Continue reading Periscope and Selfie Streaming: Cams going mainstream, Opportunity to get this right
April 12, 2015 1 Comment
Hi all. It’s a packed day at NAB Show #NAB2015! First – the #SocialTV Index volume 2 is out! The free report is truly worth a peek. John Eggerton of Broadcasting & Cable picked it up, as has at least one other outlet. The headline? Twitter seems to be losing ground to Facebook – fast. Declined 25% vis-a-vis August 2014. If the numbers […]
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 […]
Continue readingTwitter is a Platform, Vine is a Genre, Video is a medium
February 13, 2015 0 Comments
There’s an interesting article on Re-code today about Dick Costolo’s comments on Vine. The author suggests that Vine will compete with Twitter’s native Video offerings but I don’t think so. The way I think of it is this: Twitter is a Platform, Vine is a Genre and Video is a medium. http://recode.net/2015/02/11/dick-costolo-on-how-vine-fits-into-twitters-ambitions Twitter is a distribution platform. With Twitter, you […]
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