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Can Major Media Companies Survive The Digital Revolution?

Jorge Espinel / March 14, 2009

Recently, Techcrunch had an interesting article about the death of digital divisions inside major media companies. Techcrunch argued that the slowdown in M&A will mean that  most digital initiatives will now be led by the traditional divisions rather than by “digital” divisions.
While this may be the case in the short-term, I believe that major [...]

Corporate Development, Dealmaking, Management, Media Companies, digital media - 0 Comments

Teens Don’t Use Twitter…At least, Not Yet

Jorge Espinel / January 30, 2009

Yesterday, as part as our annual gathering of portfolio companies, I had the opportunity to meet a group of high school and college students from the Los Angeles area. There were about 15 kids between the ages of 16-20. 65% boys and 35% girls. The session was focused on learning about their media consumption [...]

Web 2.0, digital media, web - 0 Comments

Content Is King But We Now Live In A Democracy

Jorge Espinel / August 11, 2008

A few posts back I wrote about the new dynamics of content businesses in a digital world (See here). In recent months, the mantra of “content is king” has returned to the forefront of these businesses as a way to highlight their value. This is not surprising. As distribution outlets proliferate thanks to the [...]

Branding, Content, Market Trends, digital media - 1 Comments

Re-organizing for the Acquisition War

Jorge Espinel / May 9, 2008

Acquisitions have emerged as an essential capability for digital media players to build scale and drive product innovation. The digital media business has become hit-driven and increasingly hyper-competitive. As a result, building a successful Web business is increasingly hard for anyone but particularly for corporate media players. This is leading most media players [...]

Content, Corporate Development, M&A, Management, Web 2.0, digital media, organization - 0 Comments