Long radio silence there. My apologies for those who checked out the site and didn’t find it updated. I am blaming a holiday, a relentlessly crowded work schedule and attention to a couple of exciting personal projects for the lack of posts (No, I wasn’t feeling lazy, really! ;-).
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Frequent readers may recall that I started my blogging journey citing my fascination for the digital transformation underway in the …
In a recent post, I explored the growing move by brand owners away from Paid Media towards Owned Media, highlighting how Brands and Publishers were exchanging roles – even as brand owners undertook greater interest in content marketing, their media counterparts were undertaking a reverse journey of extending their media franchise into consumer brands or even selling the very brands they were covering in their media vehicles. Prominent examples …
On July 30, 2011 the Captain of the visiting English cricket team, Michael Vaughan set off a firestorm when he tweeted
Vaughan was implying that Indian batsman VVS Laxman had applied Vaseline to the edge of his bat, in order to mislead the Hot Spot infra-red imaging system, used to determine faint edges. The tweet set off a predictable mini-controversy as Indians (and the rather thin-skinned Indian Press) leapt to …
Sometime in mid 2011, Nick D’Aloisio became the youngest person ever to raise venture capital (!), when his news summarizing startup Trimit attracted the attention of Horizons Ventures, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s investment vehicle.
Rebranded as Summly, and having attracted $1.5m through more celebrity investors such as Stephen Fry, Yoko Ono, Ashton Kucher, not to mention tech stars such as Brian Chesky of Airbnb, Marc Pincus of …
It is time to announce a winner, ladies and gentlemen! As we head into the last quarter of 2012, we now seem to have a runaway winner in the battle of the paywall models – the metered model.
A recent Newspapers Association of America study of 156 newspapers revealed that 87% of the newspapers profiled had adopted the metered model. And since the study broke, there have been further announcements. …
Today, most newspapers in USA have either instituted a paywall (typically some variant of the metered model) or are considering one actively. Hey, even Buffett the legendary investor recommends paywalls stating “…you shouldn’t be giving away a product you’re trying to sell. That’s key to the future of the newspaper”.
However, one of Buffett’s investee companies, The Washington Post Co has thus far been content to stay away from any …