SpectatorBytes

The much expected news of a Yahoo re-organization has gotten me thinking about what the ideal organization is for internet divisions/conglomerates to foster growth and innovation. Since I believe interactive networks will primarily grow/scale through acquisitions of products and services over the next few years, they would benefit from designing an organizational structure to support [...]

Hulu’s content partners decision to pull out of their relationship with Boxee has gotten me thinking: “Here we go again.” The existing TV and Film ecosystem will continue to focus on protecting the existing model rather than focusing on embracing the new one. Over the past 15 years, I have witnessed first-hand a significant amount [...]

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 habits, [...]

A good friend of mine, who works in digital media, recently expressed its frustration with Web businesses: ” Why can these businesses be more simple; They are just not easy businesses.” Any digital media entrepreneur or executive is likely to agree with this statement. Building or operating businesses on the Web continue to be a [...]

The phenomenon of Twitter and Friendfeed seems to have regained momentum over the past couple of weeks. Early adopters are increasingly fascinated with these applications’ ability to broadcast information across the Web to a community of followers. The recent incident involving a US citizen arrested in Egypt, who used Twitter to ask for help, demonstrated [...]

I am increasingly surprised by how many more sites seem to be looking to build audiences through SEM efforts. The concept of using a direct marketing ad unit such as paid search to promote content websites has seemed strange to me. The idea of having to continually advertise to be able to aggregate audiences seems [...]