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Inside The Deals: Reed Elsevier Tests The Market - 1 Comment
Posted By Steve Rosenbush - Tue 11 Mar 2008 06:43 AM PST

Ed’s Note: Welcome to Inside The Deals, a weekly column about M&A in the media written by veteran business journalist Steve Rosenbush. Steve is based in New York, and previously…

Interview: Tom Curley, CEO, Associated Press; Portals, Local Content—‘The Mother of all Battles’ - 24 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 05 Dec 2007 10:00 AM PST

In a speech last month, AP CEO Tom Curley declared that news is a growth industry and that it was high time to kick ‘despair’ to the curb. At the…

The Impact of Online Recommenders: Reinforcing The Head; Facebook Apps As An Example? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Oct 2007 04:49 PM PST

An interesting research paper out of Wharton about the effect of online recommendation services and their users and the theory that they tend to drive consumers to concentrate their purchases…

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Exclusivity and Control in Content Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Sep 2007 05:31 PM PST

An excellent (though academic) paper by Andrei Hagiu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School about the various models involved in content distribution deals, and the industry’s propensity for exclusive…

Interview: Ashley Highfield, Director, BBC Future Media & Technology: Trust Takes Too Long - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 03 Sep 2007 10:00 PM PST

The BBC’s digital media supremo has said the broadcaster’s regulator should speed up the process for green-lighting new internet projects. In an in-depth interview to mark the launch of our…

Operational Challenges in Managing Digital Media Strategies - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 22 Aug 2007 08:28 PM PST

An interesting white paper from KPMG, titled ”The Digital Bubble - Balancing Operational Challenges with Growth”, which focuses on the operational challenges for big media companies buying the fast-growing digital…

Lauren Rich Fine On NWS-DJ: The Devil You Know - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 31 Jul 2007 12:05 PM PST

Newspaper and internet analyst Lauren Rich Fine retired earlier this year after 19 years with Merrill Lynch. Today she takes us up on an open invitation to write about industry…

Audio: LA Mid-Year Digital Media Review - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 29 Jul 2007 06:24 PM PST

Our LA Mid-Year Digital Media Review Panel at the WGA Theater last week featured five execs who discussed a range of issues in the digital media industry, and included: Deanna…

Aggregation & Context in The Video World And Threat To Media Companies - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 15 Jul 2007 08:05 PM PST

Late last year Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang came out with a report on Long Tail, and how the content and distribution value chain will get affected by the rise…

Weekend Viewing: New Media Academic Summit Videos - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 09 Jun 2007 12:49 PM PST

If you want to watch some half-constipated media execs, journalists and academics discuss this thing called “new media” and how to “deal with it” (not their words, my paraphrasing), watch…

Boxxet Launch Offers Users To Create Their Own ‘Best-Of-The-Web’ Hub - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 16 Jan 2007 10:32 AM PST

A busy day for start-up Boxxet with the launch of the latest entry in the online info organizer/community/automated portal space and the announcement of a $900,000 first round from Ascend…

The Digital Consumer: Digital Media Trends in 2007 - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Jan 2007 06:59 PM PST

Oppenheimer & Co., the investment bank, has come out with a 92-page digital media research report from its analysts, examining what they consider the top 10 themes for 2007, and…

This Thing Called Scaling - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Dec 2006 03:26 PM PST

Scott Karp, one of the deep thinkers about the issues and problems with media businesses, has written a nice piece titled ”Content Businesses Don’t Scale Anymore”, where he argues that…

Why Aggregation & Context and Not (Necessarily) Content are King in Entertainment - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 27 Nov 2006 08:52 PM PST

Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang has come out with a report on, well, Long Tail, but this one focuses on what he calls the mid part of the content and…

Interview: Simon Waldman, Director Of Digital Strategy, Guardian Media Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Wed 06 Sep 2006 12:11 AM PST

The Guardian is no longer a UK national newspaper, said Simon Waldman - recently promoted to director of digital strategy for the Guardian Media Group. ”Media organizations are traditionally based…

Bubble Or Not, Here I Come, You Can’t Hide - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 12 Jul 2006 09:08 PM PST

JPMorgan’s digital media team has come out with another edition of its monthly newsletter, and an interesting powerpoint about the topic which has no clear answer: Is this Web 2.0/Digital…

Sorrell’s Reductive Reasoning For Digital Skepticism - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Jun 2006 10:07 AM PST

Martin Sorrell, the CEO of the world’s biggest ad group WPP Group, has written a strange opinion column in UK’s Times, in what can only be described as his naive…

Media Executive Interview Series: Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 04 Jun 2006 10:07 PM PST

I recently did an interview with Tom Glocer, the CEO of Reuters, about his company’s efforts in embracing open-media and other online efforts. Glocer has a “seeder of clouds” view…

Open-Up, For Your Own Sake: The Convergence Imperative - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Apr 2006 07:06 PM PST

PwC has come out with a report asking media and telecom companies to adopt open business models, for their own sake, and says that a new, more fluid and transparent…

King Content: Big Media’s Struggle With Digital - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 20 Jan 2006 05:02 AM PST

So it has reached the cover of The Economist: big media’s struggles with the digital world, but the stories warn against writing off Hollywood and the big media groups just…

MemeWatch: No Web 2.0 - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 19 Dec 2005 11:13 AM PST

The chatter is shifting from “Bubble 2.0” to “No 2.0” as some people rebel against the idea that everything new and wonderful online right now can be tucked neatly into…

Meeker’s Game Changers - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 02 Dec 2005 09:13 AM PST

Mary Meeker made a presentation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business two weeks ago and this is a PDF of her presentation...a 60-page PDF outlining what her team thinks…

The Alphabet Soup of Digital Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Nov 2005 10:14 PM PST

The Hollywood Reporter has a series of stories on digital media today, and though nothign really groundbreaking, it has some good bits. For instance, in the story linked above, Diane…

MemeWatch: Bubble 2.0? - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 18 Nov 2005 01:12 PM PST

If it looks like a bubble, feels like a bubble and enough people call it a bubble, is it really one? The bubble concept has been going for months —Business…

Digital Convergence Is Back - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Nov 2005 01:13 PM PST

Deloitte has released a 16-page report on the convergence industry and how it is changing the basic structure of media, telecom and technology industry. The real convergence is happening now…