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Last week, Tech Crunch published my article on The 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising, in it, I mentioned that while YouTube has been closed to most technology and ad solutions, surprisingly, it was more open than some of their peers by allowing producer partners to sell ads. continue reading...
The NY Times has a piece on the NBC debacle and the declining fortunes of network television: continue reading...
YouTube is looking for suggestions, mainly from users on its user interface and experience. I’ll let the millions, and millions of users do that.
What I’d like to see is an interface for Premium Producer Partners like WatchMojo.com to be able to enter a demographic: continue reading...
Everywhere you look, you spot the carcass of a startup that is being left on the side of the road due to what I call the bankrupt API economy: really smart and agile entrepreneurs that seek to capitalize on another company’s mojo by seeking a shortcut to market. You can’t blame them, and by them, I mean both entrepreneur and company who manages the API.
Today, I read of Muziic: continue reading...
What are the 10 consumer web companies that are best positioned for the 2010s? continue reading...
Esquire profiles Ryan Kavanaugh, Relatively Media’s CEO, in its Best & Brightest feature. I had heard about Relativity but didn’t know much about the people or story behind it. Esquire does a great job of diving into the company that finances movies for the likes of Sony, MGM, Universal, Time Warner, etc.: continue reading...
I keep telling myself not to post monthly updates of WatchMojo’s growth trajectory, and I mean it, but then every once in a while something else happens that blows me away. This is one of those months. I just announced how our offline reach has soared to over 15,000,000 consumers per month (think big screens in malls, gyms, coffee shops etc. broadcasting our content) which combined with our online reach of 5,000,000 uniques put our total reach at 20,000,000 consumers. That is very cool.
But today, I ran our October stats and I was floored, first, the graph, then some perspective, and finally some lessons: continue reading...
Humble Beginnings continue reading...
Launched in September 2009, by IT strategist and expedition rafting guru Brad Greene, Findsolve is the ultimate business solution platform.
“The advantage for businesses who sign up as the first in their category is that they will benefit from the worldwide launch of the site and begin to collect customer recommendations — and if they are good at what they do, they can stay at the top of our ranking system,” Mr. Greene said. continue reading...