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...
In show 23 of HipMojo, WatchMojo producer and host Rebecca Brayton steps in for CT and chats with me about continue reading...
On show #11 of HipMojo, we touch on my updated list on the Greatest US Internet digital media M&A deals of all-time. I’d originally penned this list in 2006 and we talked about it on an earlier show. Now that I’m writing a weekly column on TechCrunch to go along with my weekly piece on MediaPost, I thought: “hey, why not update it?” – so I did. Only 4 of the 10 deals from the original list remained: it was a coin-toss between AOL/Advertising.com and NYT/About.com but in the end the former made the cut and the latter didn’t. The others that remained include eBay/Paypal, Yahoo/Overture, and MSFT/Hotmail. Watch the video as I CT and I discuss the 6 new deals and the updated order, below: continue reading...
This is a very small detail, but I love the look and feel of it so I thought of sharing it with our viewers. continue reading...
Are media companies at the mercy of tech firms? That’s what CT and I discuss in segment 1 of the HipMojo show this week. Considering Knight Ridder envisioned a world on tablets, you have to wonder why they failed to capitalize on their vision? Sometimes media companies see the future but are victims of the innovator’s dilemma. Other times, like Universal Music’s Doug Morris, the threat/opportunity is beyond their grasp, which makes Don Dodge’s account of what didn’t happen with Napster even more interesting. Here is segment #1: continue reading...
Published by Rogers Media, Marketing Mag is Canada’s version to Ad Age. It is read by marketing, advertising and PR professionals, investors consult it for emerging trends. As such, I was delighted that Alicia Androich reached out to us a month ago asking us to be profiled in their Sept 12 issue (should be on newsstands next week). It will be part of a “digital tree” in the magazine, here’s the teaser/sneak peek (then a few thoughts on the whole “no respect” theme): continue reading...
Before venturing into the HipMojo show, I hesitated to do a weekly (or even daily) show because I still believe that pumping out articles (or nowadays, tweets) is much more logical for the breakneck, fast-paced world of news. But, a lot of people said “hey, you write all of these business articles and run a video site, why not do a weekly show on business?” continue reading...
