The Misplaced Bet on UGC
Back in 2006, we’d get the occasional call from someone pitching us a turnkey solution to add User-Generated Content (UGC) videos to our WatchMojo.com property, which houses professionally produced videos we have created. continue reading...
I never understood why some companies like Handheld Entertainment and Go Fish were publicly traded. With easier access to capital comes the fact that your premature business gets nailed by shareholders, especially if your underlying premise - that distribution trumps content - is faulty.
[Disclaimer: both companies were or are distribution partners of WatchMojo.com] continue reading...
Daily Motion is escalating the battle for #3 in their space (after YouTube and MySpace TV).
Online video advertising is growing, quickly. continue reading...
The following is a perpetual-work-in-progress. Once you start to compile a list of mergers and acquisitions, you realize why it’s nearly impossible to have a complete list. We are quite confident that the following is a very good, comprehensive list of the largest, more notable deals… but it is not - and no list will be - fully complete because there are too many countries around the world and too many industries to report (it is highly possible that the Wall Street Journal or Financial Post, for example, has such a list… but it would be thick and unwieldy).
We have included: continue reading...
Interesting denouement today connects one of the trailblazing sites in viral media and an ambitious team of executives I’ve had the pleasure to meet. The former is eBaum’s World, no stranger to controversy and criticism; the latter is Handheld Entertainment, a company that’s been around for years and has in the past 12 months moved aggressively away from the handheld device market (whose Zuve player has competitors like Apple, Sandisk and Microsoft) into the online media segment.
[Full disclosure: Handheld Entertainment has in the past approached Mojo Supreme about an acquisition, mainly for our WatchMojo.com web video unit]. continue reading...
