“Disruption” is one of the most overhyped concepts of the last ten years. A Google Trend search for “disruptive innovation” shows a steeply rising graph, and you can hardly open a professional… Read more »
Media businesses have long operated from the premise of inherent value — that each media property has some fixed and immutable appeal based on its particular inputs. Read more »
Unlike in the music industry, digital technology has not yet changed how the money flows in the TV business or (for the most part) who gets it. If and when it… Read more »
A conceptual problem arises from thinking about Flipboard in publishing terms (an error Flipboard itself encourages), when its actual role in the value chain is much closer to that of a… Read more »
It’s always been true to some extent, but it is even more true now — serious online journalism requires something else to subsidize it, whether it’s a rich benefactor or cat… Read more »
The findings of a new study by Ericcson give empirical support to the points actor Kevin Spacey made in his widely quoted comments at the Edinburgh International Television festival last week. Read more »
Viewing habits are changing, inexorably. Insofar as the networks’ business model remains premised on traditional linear TV viewing, they are vulnerable to disruption. But vulnerable doesn’t necessarily mean doomed. Read more »
OpenStack, the fast-growing IaaS platform is taking root across the industry, promising an open cloud computing platform that enables portability, security and trust in the cloud. Read more »
There may be a theoretical limit to the upside from Apple’s inverted razor-and-blades business model, which may be why it’s allowing operating margins on iTunes to creep up. Read more »