Category Archives: Media

How much is an Internet Visitor Worth?

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google makes $18 a year for each unique visitor. Facebook makes roughly $3. Three observations from the chart: 1)  Google is far ahead of the others in monetizing their visitors. A sign that search advertising is much better paid than … Continue reading →

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Media is Changing

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Internet and the Digital Revolution has transformed Media… and this is just starting. If not convinced, see the clip above.

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Why Is Google Acquiring On2?

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google has announced the acquisition of On2, the company that owns some of the video compression codecs widely used in online video, but that were recently losing ground in favor of h.264. Why is Google spending $106 million in purchasing … Continue reading →

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Who said the Telcos did not know about Media?

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The Chart of the day of  The Business Insider a few days ago is self-explanatory. Bundling very high speed Internet Access with TV is winning the battle. Will they be able to sustain it against the coming Hulu’s? This can … Continue reading →

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In CommunicAsia 2009: Making Mobile TV Work

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is more than one motnh ago that I was in CommunicAsia  for a Mobile TV panel. Here are the main points we discussed about how to make the business case for Mobile TV work. Free-to-Air channels are a must … Continue reading →

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DVRs Go Mainstream, but for how long?

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The Silicon Alley Insider Chart of the Day (above) shows the great curve of DVR (Digital Video Recorders)  adoption in US, where almost one in three households already have one. This poses a threat to the advertising model of broadcast … Continue reading →

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I Love Music, but I Hate CDs

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

I guess that by now, all music labels have already realized that music downloads and subscriptions are the only way forward to distribute music. CDs are dead, and rightly so. Maybe because we just finished unpacking the shipment from KL … Continue reading →

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Blue-ray Won the Battle but Lost the War

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is already one year since Sony signed with the four big movie studios and knocked out Toshiba in the war for the high-definition video format. Seagate’s CEO said then “Blue-ray won the battle but lost the war”, referring to … Continue reading →

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Online Movies 2019

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

In 2019, while Music downloads are mostly free, people is ready to pay for Movie downloads. The Music industry has changed in the past ten years and artists make their work known by distributing it for free. Their revenues come … Continue reading →

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Welcome 2009!

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when iPhone 3G confirmed Apple’s revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset … Continue reading →

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