Increasingly, people ask me about the origins of the WatchMojo name. Truth be told, companies have “the real” story behind their companies’ names and business models, and the “PR version” (two examples are eBay and the pez dispenser story, and YouTube’s HotorNot-for-video reality vs. the story about sharing an office party video). continue reading...
“To pivot, or not to pivot, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles.” Hamlet, were it set in Silicon Valley, circa 2011. continue reading...
Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington will bet $30 million on a new online video news venture called the Huffington Post Streaming Network. Will it work? The odds are unlikely, considering how tough online video news is. In fact, considering that ABC and Univision are considering launching an English-language cable news product to compete with CNN, I recommend them to launch their venture online instead. Watch HipMojo show 27 below: continue reading...
Patience is one of the seven virtues, the lesser-known cousins of the seven sins. And indeed, “patience is a virtue” – or so goes the saying. But another saying states that “fortune favors the bold.” So which one is it? continue reading...
On HipMojo 26, Rebecca and I chat about the Facebook IPO. Enjoy: continue reading...
Nice to see fellow video content producers Revision3 doing well. In their yearly update they boasted about increases in: continue reading...
As WatchMojo celebrated its 6-year anniversary on Monday January 23, on Show 25 of HipMojo, Rebecca asks me about some of the highlights of WatchMojo’s first 6 years. Enjoy: continue reading...
Recently I moderated a panel at Streaming Media West. Panelists included Michael Schwalb (Tremor Media), Mark Suster (VC at GRP), Eric Anderson, (VP, Content and Product Solutions, Samsung Electronics America) and AJ McGowan (CTO at Unicorn Media). continue reading...
I’ve now moderated two panels at Streaming Media, once last summer at SM East and once this past fall at SM West. Noteworthy on the LA panel was Marc Suster’s assertion that Google had spent closer to $250 million – and not the $100 million the media was reporting – on YouTube’s content initiative. I touched on that in my TechCrunch article “Can Content Producers Be Disruptors Or Is Content Only Meant To Be Disrupted?“ Anyway, in LA, after my I conducted an interview where we touched on many themes. One of the topics was the fact that WatchMojo had not raised any VC and we had bootstrapped. continue reading...
With CT running from the Feds again busy and unable to join us, Rebecca steps in for show #24. We talk about: continue reading...
