Apr 22, 2015
In these parts, we refer to “content” all the time. It’s not a misnomer; content is a business word, and after all, we’re in show business. It is, however, a poor choice of words, given that “content” is a...
Jan 20, 2015
Remember when television was about the lowest common denominator? Remember when the radio station that won was “the one station that everybody at work can agree on”? Those days – the days of aiming as broadly as possible – are toast. Let’s focus on...
Nov 6, 2014
Because the nice people at YouTube have access to over one billion human beings who consume content – voraciously – on their website, they have access to far more information about how content is being used (and not used) than any other operator on the...
Oct 6, 2014
In these parts, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future of entertainment and media. It’s a future where media is converging, the old ways of doing things are collapsing, and the people who consume our content are becoming accustomed to getting multiple...
Jun 30, 2014
Sometimes, we all need a reminder of things we already know but have a tendency to lose sight of. Not long ago, Silicon Valley’s newspaper of record did an eight-part series entitled “How Tech Redefines Us”. One of the eight parts was simply labeled “Fame”. The...
