Am I crazy, or is content starting to get some respect? I mean, maybe it’s because VCs have wasted enough money investing in me-too video aggregators, or maybe it’s because content has always been king and it was a matter of time, but I fell off my chair when I read Business Insider’s Online Video Shakeout To Get Worse As Buyers And VCs Run For Hills:
Conversations with bankers, VCs, and a senior online video exec suggest the brutal shakeout in online video will continue if online advertising doesn’t see a meanindgful recovery soon.
As we pointed out yesterday, more and more bankers and VCs are seeing online video companies seeking to raise cash and in many cases an exit. Online video is a capital-intensive business, with heavy bandwidth and content licensing costs, so the companies scarf down cash.
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What video sites are best positioned, in our opinion?
Content producers/owners who can build their own sites, but also distribute their content to multiple aggregators, receiving a share of revenue from each, and diversifying themselves to ease the impact of a couple going under.
What I’ve been saying since 2006… but who’s gloating?
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WatchMojo NewsletterVia PaidContent, on ReadWriteWeb, talking about BreakingNewsOnline:
In a media landscape that some argue has transcended the old models of scarcity and physical distribution - it could be efficient research infrastructure, high-quality editorial judgment and building online channels of distribution that make the difference.
Interesting conclusion.
CNET’s ZDNET, Iran and Yahoo!? You know this would not end well.
I was very surprised to read that Yahoo! had handed over names of Iranians youth to the authorities. Turns out it was false. Interestingly enough if a blog would have written that, it would have gotten much less consideration… but at the same time, because a “well respected, traditional, new media source” such as ZDNet reported it, it’s a big deal.
