One by one, they pick up the baton and run with it.
News Corp. Chairman and Rupert Murdoch had mentioned how he had become enamored with the Web because with very little investment, he got abnormally positive returns. So off he went. continue reading...
Paid Content refers to a NYT article on CBS which calls for the company that Bill Paley built to make digital acquisitions, which begs the question: should they go for a big purchase or make small moves?
Of course, answering that question alone without addressing the backdrop to that question yields an incomplete picture. 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...
Expect to see a lot of consolidation in the broad video space.
- the fight for #3 in file sharing social networks will cause many (DailyMotion, Metacafe, Veoh, Revver, Break) to consolidate and merge to remain viable against YouTube, Yahoo!, MySpace and MSN. 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...
In web spheres, the decision usually boils down to build vs. buy.
The term is build, because usually it involves technology. In light of today’s announcement that CBS was buying Wallstrip, a creator of online content targeted to the finance vertical, the argument that TV companies can simply create (or should create) programming for the Web both loses and gains some momentum. Scott Karp touches on this in his post. He’s not alone. continue reading...
Last week, the rumor crept up. Howard Lindzon made it official today. Congrats to him and his entire team. Well deserved. I wrote about the challenges and thrills of helping create the playbook for online video last week in the “Did CBS Just Acquire Wallstrip for $5M” post here.
VC Fred Wilson, an angel investor in Wallstrip nails it: continue reading...
