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The digital media landscape continues to evolve at a significant pace, with new forces disrupting the market dynamics every 12 months. This is one of the reasons why digital media companies of all sizes continue to struggle to sustain revenue and profit growth long-term.
As I have mentioned in previous posts, digital businesses need to [...]

We are entering a new stage on the Web. Significant elements of the digital publishing, video, advertising and social media infrastructure have been laid out. Scale winners in each of these ecosystems have emerged such as YouTube, Wordpress, Facebook, MySpace, Advertising.com, Google’s Ad Sense, etc. Now, new players are emerging as a second wave [...]

Jeremy Liew, a good friend and partner at Lightspeed Ventures, inspire me to think about 2009 trends. He has been doing it for the past couple of years and it feels like a good thinking exercise. Below are the thoughts that Jeremy’s post sparked for me.
1. Scalable ad formats for premium advertising may be [...]

The Associated Press has been reporting on the box-office success of the Dark Knight (See here). One the most interesting points that the AP made in their coverage is the following:
However, the numbers reflect today’s higher admission prices, and “The Dark Knight” will not approach “Star Wars” or “Titanic” in terms of actual number [...]

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 [...]

For content producers and providers, the Web is bound to create significant value in the middle. Much has been said about the Web’s long-tail over the past few years, and certainly many companies are focused on the “head” since most offline models have been built around the “head”. However, the middle – which some [...]

Much is being written today about the imminent downturn in the economy and how it has started to impact overall business activity (see here). This has gotten me thinking about what are the potential implications for the digital media community over the next 18-24 months.
Realities:
– Consumers’ online usage will continue to increase at a [...]