(Web) Video killed the TV Star

With apologies to Buggles – whose 1979 hit remembers the golden era of radio while celebrating the unrelenting force of technology to re-shape media.
It’s TV’s turn now.  Web & Social video are set to reshape both media. 
Locally stealth start-ups Overlay.tv and FaveQuest are playing in this area, as are local content producers like RaceDV. What’s [...]

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Online Advertising Consolidation

Jeff Jarvis notes that Google controls 40% of online advertising, and that their share of online advertising is growing faster than online advertising as a whole. In a world where online services are increasingly monetized by ad revenue – this concentrates incredible power in Google’s ad serving algorithms.
It’s not hard to understand why they are [...]

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Evolution of Online Advertising

The Guardian has an interesting piece about the evolution of online advertising written by Guy Phillipson, CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau.
His essential thesis is that “online will overtake TV as the biggest (ad) medium by the end of 2010.” That’s a bold claim – that get’s bolder with the hypothesis that brand experience will [...]

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Social Media Styles

Matt Locke has an interesting post
“describing social media spaces in a way that can be shared by both traditional media indies and digital media agencies”
He uses a use centered model based on behavior, action and expectation while on a site. The six styles are:
- Secret Spaces
- Group Spaces
- Publishing Spaces
- Performing Spaces
- Participation Spaces
- Watching Spaces
(link here for his description of [...]

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Physical & OnLine Media Advantages

Jeff Jarvis, writing about Prince’s distribution of his new CD inside the London’s Sunday Mail says:
“it exploits the one last advantage of printing a paper on atoms and delivering them: distribution”
That’s not totally true. Each media type has several unique characteristics which can be used independently or in conjunction with online presence to extend the online [...]

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Federated Advertising Platforms

In a recent post I’d said “media will come to recognize that they are as much in the advertising assembly business as they are in the ad delivery and content businesses”
Seems Time Inc. already recognizes which led to an interesting post at Publishing 2.0 comparing Ad Platforms and Ad Networks. The core distinction is who [...]

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The Future of Newspapers (and Radio & TV)

Jeff Jarvis asked what newspapers will look like in 2020. It’s an interesting question because 13 years is a huge timeframe – when you consider what the past 13 years have wrought. But here’s a stab.
First the underlying processes technologies that are in evidence now, or in accelerated adoption cycles, will be the same processes [...]

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Telling it like it is

James Cridland has an excellent post (Mark Ramsey. Grr) extolling US broadcasters to look beyond their shores and admonishing tech enthusiast to stop decrying the death of a medium they love.
Both are long overdue.
First it’s increasingly a global world with (forgive me) a world of great ideas. And those ideas are easy to find. I [...]

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A Joost Community?

Alec Saunders pointed to an interesting interview with David Clark, a VP at Joost, talking to CBS about why their service. David points to three areas where Joost is different from traditional WebTV:
- Quality of the picture
- Natural controls
- Integrated community

On the first two there’s no question – it’s a great picture – at [...]

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Citizen Journalism

Over at the P2P Foundation (a resource for trends and technologies related to participatory culture) there is a great video of Ethan Zuckerman discussing citizen Journalism and Global Voices a Citizen Journalism project he co-founded. While at LunchoverIP, Bruno Giussani talks about the three ingredients for the future of Journalism. (Originally published in KnightForum)
Zuckerman talks [...]

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