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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. What started as sheets now has dozens of SKU’s. where would you even start in terms of product selection?

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

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It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. Why is that? That was the only way. TV was the same.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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Google raised the curtain with a splashy announcement that they’d be setting up their fifth cloud region in the U.S. While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged. in Los Angeles. We open these doorways.”

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M-GO's Take On The Digital Entertainment Streaming Market, with John Batter

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Does the world need another, online streaming media service for movies and television? We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. So, they just ave up. As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform.

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

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They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. Give people massive price increases on most media and they’ll abandon it.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. In a world where we’ve seen newspapers crumbling, record labels struggling and Blockbuster imploding and making way for the rise of Netflix it seems kinda intuitive to most of us but we can’t quite place why this happens.

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Silicon Beach Report Aug. 21: Otter Media Leads $4.7M Round for Sports Media Startup

L.A. Business Journal

Otter Media leads funding round for Mars Reel Media; Netflix pilots payment change; Postie taps Gollander as head of sales

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