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Liz Gannes, Chart: The Web Video Money Pit – GigaOM.

The Web Video Money Pit

03.03.10 | Industry Shift, Products & Services, Resources, Video

 

“Creating content for the web is an art and a science. There has been a lot of talk now about the science,” said Break.com CEO Keith Richman. “Those guys studying the science of it will be forced eventually to focus on the art of it.”

via Michael Learmonth, Lowered Expectations: Web Redefines ‘Quality’.

02.26.10 | Editorial & Programming, Industry Shift

Wired’s iPad tablet app: lookin’ good.

02.17.10 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift, Platforms & Channels

AOL is trying its most ambitious super-content project yet with freelance content site Seed.com: offering 2,000 $50 assignments on SXSW bands for its music site Spinner.com.

via David Kaplan, AOL Tries To Seed SXSW With Coverage Of 2,000 Bands | paidContent. Seed’s official launch post.

02.01.10 | Editorial & Programming, Enterprise, Industry Shift, Products & Services

via Luke Hayman, Five Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design | New at Pentagram | Pentagram.

5 Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design

02.01.10 | Emerging Media, Industry Shift, Platforms & Channels, Theory & Practice

Privately, some within Google maintain that it is not their fault if media companies cannot monetise the traffic they are being sent by the search engine. Media companies need to become far better at exploiting their digital inventory.

Google’s Josh Cohen: Publishers Still Need Us | paidContent.

01.21.10 | Business Strategy, Industry Shift, Products & Services

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Old vs. New

12.14.09 | Industry Shift

Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times » Nieman Journalism Lab.

12.14.09 | Industry Shift

Current TV’s retrenchment shows the difficulty of grafting the freewheeling culture and sensibilities that have thrived over the Internet onto established mediums like television, where viewers often expect slickly produced programs and big-name personalities.

via Current TV to shift from video format — latimes.com.

11.25.09 | Editorial & Programming, Industry Shift, Platforms & Channels, Products & Services

 

By next summer, according to founder and CEO Richard Rosenblatt, Demand will be publishing 1 million items a month, the equivalent of four English-language Wikipedias a year. Demand is already one of the largest suppliers of content to YouTube, where its 170,000 videos make up more than twice the content of CBS, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera English, Universal Music Group, CollegeHumor, and Soulja Boy combined.

via Dan Roth, The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell | Magazine.

11.20.09 | Agencies, Business Strategy, Custom & Branded Content, Editorial & Programming, Industry Shift

It’s possible, however, that the Internet content idea was clever, even if the execution was terrible. [....] Yahoo’s new strategy hinges on a basic premise that many have figured out, but some still don’t get: The Internet demands a unique approach to content creation. You can’t just pick up a newspaper or television and plug it into an Ethernet jack.

via Tom Krazit, Yahoo betting on content biz revival | Relevant Results – CNET News.

11.11.09 | Industry Shift

 

Curation is the new aggregation.

via Steven Meyers, Poynter Online – Top Stories.

10.27.09 | Editorial & Programming, Industry Shift

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