Kilar: More reason for Hulu to exist now than ever
While Hulu was formed primarily as a way for content owners to distribute and monetize content online that would otherwise be pirated, CEO Jason Kilar said Tuesday that there's more reason for the company to exist now than there was four-and-a-half years ago.
YouTube shows Silicon Valley how it can beat Hollywood
YouTube's announced new viewership milestone today, with more than 4 billion video views daily. That's impressive, and more importantly, shows how YouTube could serve as a blueprint for other technology companies that wish to create an alternative to the existing media industry.
Joshua Young: 2012 will be the year we focus, again, on the writer
We’re wrapping up 2011 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring. Here’s Josh Young, currently the VP of editorial and expert operations at Sulia and formerly the social news editor at The Huffington Post.
How Did My Predictions for 2011 Turn Out?
It's not too hard to make predictions. What's harder is to honestly evaluate how you did. In that spirit, I'd like to ask your help.Early this year, I predicted how 2011 would go in digital media. I'd love it if you gave me...
6 Tips to Support Digital News Through Advertising
This is the first in a series of columns on new business models for news and other media. You'll be able to find other stories in the series by clicking on the Business Models tag.One of the toughest ways to support a...
What Apple needs to provide users to make iTV successful
Apple's television plans are the subject of plenty of recent speculation, and are raising a lot of questions in consumer minds. From the questions I've heard about the rumored iTV, here's a list of five things Apple needs to do to shake up the space.
Big Media Thinks Its Future Is in Your Phone
Big media companies have never been comfortable with the Web. Maybe that's why they're so eager to embrace smartphones.
Content, dethroned
Jonathan Knee uses Netflix to argue in The Atlantic that content is not king and that aggregators are better at capturing value. That will be raw meat to those who claim that aggregators are content kleptomanics.
Knee’s analysis is good but there’s a critical element that needs to be underscored: Aggregation itself is not sufficient....
Why Is Facebook Investor Accel Investing In Hollywood? Because It’s a Facebook Investor
Silicon Valley comes to Hollywood. What is Accel's Jim Breyer thinking?
It’s not all about content and work
In his column complaining about Huffington Post and the new economics of content competition, I think David Carr makes two understandable but fundamentally fallacious assumptions about news and media: that the value in journalism is in content and that making content must be work. Because that’s the way it used to be.
In their op-ed the...
