Archive for the ‘Media & New Economy’ Category
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
It is the first time ever that Pay TV loses subscribers quarter on a quarter, as the Business Insider chart shows.
A previous post on "spotting disruption before it happens" shows the 3 phases that can be spotted before a disruption actually occurs, exemplified with the postal service.
A lot have been ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
If reports from Engadget are correct, Apple could be soon "re-inventing" the TV too. The new Apple TV could be announced on the next Steve Jobs keynote on June 7th, together with the iPhone HD (not according to Engadget)
New Apple TV highlights, according to Engadget:
Very small device, with only power ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Google TV, as described by Google is about:
Less time Finding More time Watching
Control and Personalize what you Watch
Make your TV content more Interesting
More than just TV
Google TV is built on Android 2.1 and Google Chrome and Flash 10.1.
It runs all Android Apps that do nto require a phone hardware. A ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
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 display. Facebook will need to invent something to market their ads more ...
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Internet and the Digital Revolution has transformed Media... and this is just starting. If not convinced, see the clip above.
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
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 the owner of decaying codecs?
1) Google has high hopes for HTML5, ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
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 also signal that Internet access is now perceived at home as ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
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 to drive adoption of Mobile TV into the mainstream, as Japan ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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 TVs, as DVRs are commonly used to fast-forward ads.
DVRs are ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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 in our new home in Shanghai, I just happen to realize ...
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