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Special interest sites – another model for long tail internet TV

In the hard copy March issue of SportBusiness International there is an article about SecondsOut.com – a site for boxing fans. They aggregate a global audience for second tier boxing matches which they stream on their site, charging on a pay per view basis.

This is the internet at it’s best – national TV [...]

Agencies – more English than tea and crumpets?

What is it with us Brits and agencies?

They are everywhere in this country, much more so than in the US, for example.

I`ve been feeling it most in advertising through our investment in Buy.At, and estate agents have been figuring prominently in my thoughts about the property sector (of which more below and [...]

The Venice Project – early thoughts

I got an email this weekend (along with many of you, I’m sure) announcing that the Venice Project has entered its public beta phase. For those of you that don’t know the Venice Project is the latest venture from the founders of Skype and has been a stealth mode TV over the [...]

BTVision and a look at how close we are to tomorrows webTV world

This week BT announced the launch of BT Vision, their new IPTV service. There are lots of details on RadioandTelly but in summary you get:

A set top box which supports Freeview (UK free to air digital terrestrial TV service) Set top box incorporates PVR which can hold 80 hours programming Electronic programming [...]

More on the future of TV

The kernel for this piece was this presentation from Bear Stearns by Spencer Wang on the future of the entertainment industry I found on Raphael‘s (Leafar) and Nick Carr‘s blogs.

The presentation uses value chains as a framework to analyse TV and chimes well with a lot of what I wrote in Internet TV the end of [...]

Internet TV and the future of set top boxes

This is a follow up to my post last Internet TV – its the end of the world as we know it. There were many comments (for which thank you all) which were the result of some fairly bold statements, a couple of which deserve a little more consideration. This is about the future [...]