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Cord Cutting is a Myth — But Will it be in 10 Years?

by Donald McMichael
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Mon­e­tiz­ing con­tent in a multi-platform world is com­ing of age… or is it they are com­ing of age? Dou­nia Tur­rill, SVP Client Insights at Nielsen pro­vides some infor­ma­tion for us to pon­der. Most impor­tant is that we need to under­stand that those most likely to jump from deliv­ery frame­work to deliv­ery frame­work are young, educated, […]

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Content Providers Shifting Business Model

by Donald McMichael

Chris Van Noy the Chief Media and Enter­tain­ment Strate­gist at Aka­mai talks about the future of down­load­able enter­tain­ment, in par­tic­u­lar the busi­ness mod­els of Apple and Google and what it means for con­tent providers and the con­sumer elec­tron­ics industry.

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #24

by Donald McMichael
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photo via LinkedIn   While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. NBC News Dig­i­tal Chief: Video News Con­sump­tion is Big­ger Than Ever Mark Lukasiewicz, NBC News VP for Spe­cials and Dig­i­tal talks about how con­sumers are watch­ing more news that ever thanks to […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #22

by Donald McMichael
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  While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.   Reverse Engi­neer­ing Facebook’s Busi­ness Model with Ball­park Fig­ures Every­one has com­mented on the $50 Bil­lion val­u­a­tion placed on Face­book by the Goldman-Sachs deal. Well InnovatioAfrica.com has weighed-in, the twist. It used the Business […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #17

by Donald McMichael
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photo by Sarah Sampsel   While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.   Monaco Media Forum 2010 — “Media Unbound” Who rules the new game? MMF 2010 round­table dis­cus­sion that inves­ti­gates the impact new screens, new soft­ware, and new plat­forms are hav­ing on […]

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Business Model: The Walled Garden of Ads… Apps

by Donald McMichael
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Beet.TV caught up with Marc Ruxin, Chief Inno­va­tion Offi­cer of Uni­ver­sal McCann, to get the inside scoop on Madi­son Avenue’s take on the cur­rent state of dig­i­tal adver­tis­ing. In this video Marc out­lined the three main chal­lenges with regards to the App market.

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One Billion (yes, capital B) Smartphones by 2014

by Donald McMichael
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Accord­ing to a recent post on Strat­egy Eye: The num­ber of smart­phone users is set to quadru­ple in the next five years as demand for the device shifts from early adopters to gen­eral con­sumers, accord­ing to Parks Asso­ciates. The report fore­casts that more than 1.25bn peo­ple will own a smart­phone by 2014, up from just 300m […]

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