So this year mark’s O Magazine’s 10th anniversary and in true Oprah fashion, she celebrated by doing something crazy, spontaneous and really really expensive! continue reading...
I finished reading Kenneth Whyte’s The Uncrowned King on William Randolph Hearst, and I learned a lot about how to be a better businessman and entrepreneur, no doubt. Hearst was the man, for sure.
But I also walk away now realizing that newspapers as (we know them) will die, no matter how much of a fight they put up. continue reading...
While 2008 finished off with companies doing their best to cling on to anything to avoid from being sucked into the maelstrom, I think - despite the continued stock market meltdown - that many companies are seeing some stabilization in their core business. In other words: yes, 2008 Q4 saw a rapid evaporation of booked business, but 2009 is not looking as dire as some expected.
Online Remains a Beacon of Growth continue reading...
Media sexy, but it does it pay the bills? I wasn’t even talking of only digital media, but all of media. Check out what NBC CEO Jeff Zucker has to say about digital media:
From NYTimes:
“Executives at the Hearst Corporation say that one of their biggest papers, The San Francisco Chronicle, is losing $1 million a week.” continue reading...
Life isn’t getting any better for magazine companies:
According to figures released by the Publishers Information Bureau and TNS Media Intelligence, in Q1 2008: continue reading...
Newspaper company McClatchy writes down $1.39B. Magazine company Hearst reloads its digital strategy. You’d almost think that by 2008 (14 years after Netscape’s Navigator browser launched and made consumption of content easy), print companies would be better positioned online, right?
Wrong. In many ways, media companies - be it print, radio or TV-based - seem to be more uncertain about their next steps today than they were in 1998. continue reading...
Nick Denton - journalist, author, publisher, entrepreneur, event promoter - has consistently rewritten the rules of publishing while adhering to the most important values in journalism. As blogging becomes more commonplace, influential and important, the line between blogging and publishing becomes quite blurry, but wherever that line sits, Denton is pushing it relentlessly.
Today Valleywag - a Gawker Media blog - published a memo from Gawker Media management about the new bonus system being introduced by Denton to drive traffic and ideally, boost quality of the sites’ content in an increasingly cluttered and noisy blogosphere and publishing landscape which is seeing bloggers become publishers and traditional publishers become blogging empires. continue reading...
Editor’s note: I knew we were speaking too soon. One more deal to add to the list: Time Warner to buy Quigo. Added to the bottom of the list, under ad networks.
According to The Jordan Edmiston Group Inc.’s October 2007 Client Briefing report, the number of deals through the first three quarters of 2007 exceeded full year 2006 figures: 637 transactions with $95B in value thus far. Do the math and that is $150M per deal, quite rich. continue reading...
Apparently, traditional media’s love and hate relationship with YouTube took an interesting turn tonight: NBC canceled its channel on YouTube.
I won’t comment on that directly since WatchMojo.com is a content provider on YouTube and enough people are already commenting on the unconfirmed news, but I’ve been meaning to look at the interesting dynamic between traditional media companies and web video startups, and this is one more chess move in the big game that’s really only starting. continue reading...
