Archive for the 'DailyMotion' Category
Hearing about Metacafe’s founders leaving and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt admitting that it does not know how to make money off YouTube, I realized how random success is, in business in general and online video in particular.
I like to think that as a content producer, we have a business model that makes sense, and the […]
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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.
CBS has hit […]
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Newspaper company McClatchy writes down $1.39B. Magazine company Hearst reloads its digital strategy. You’d almost think that by 2008 (14 years after Netscape’s Navigator browser launched and made consumption of content easy), print companies would be better positioned online, right?
Wrong. In many ways, media companies - be it print, radio or TV-based - seem to […]
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Daily Motion is escalating the battle for #3 in their space (after YouTube and MySpace TV).
Online video advertising is growing, quickly.
Online video advertising is where search advertising was in 2000-01: a major part of the web ecosystem desperately looking for a business model.
Unlike search - where traditional media companies failed to invest and even new […]
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I like Veoh. Not because they’re a distribution partner of WatchMojo.com, but because Dmitri Shapiro is one crazy guy (in a good, Ozzy Osbourne kind of way).
Some time ago, Veoh snatched content from TV and funneled it to its online offering.
Then, it decided to preemptively sue Universal, who had threatened to sue Veoh. […]
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Alexa isn’t reliable, I know, but it’s useful to compare two sites, sometimes. So if it’s useful to compare two sites, imagine the euphoria it creates once you compare four, lest five sites.
Anyway, check out the different second tier video distribution sites:
Interesting, no? Look at where they were back in May (warning: about to […]
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Jack Welch argued that you should compete in a market so long as you could be #1 or #2 in that market.
Apparently, a lot of current VCs are students of Jack Welch. YouTube is the undisputed king of online video, then the market is fragmented:
I’ll admit this much, I am probably very diplomatic because […]
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