Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
I am reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody and the following passages are stand out reminders of the scale of the revolution we are living through.
We are living in the middle of the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race. More people can communicate more things to more people [...]
In the internet world content needs to be free. This is a theme I have addressed tangentially from a couple of different angles (e.g. Content atomisation and in-feed monetisation or Free ad-supported music coming closer to reality) but this Guardian piece from Vic Keegan takes it head on from a historical perspective (thanks to [...]
There is a lot of negative chat about Twitter - broken business model, river of crap etc. etc. so I thought it was interesting to post this excerpt from Twitter is paying my rent over on Marshall Kirkpatrick’s blog:
People laugh at Twitter, and they can go ahead and laugh for all I care, but I’m [...]
I have posted on this theme before a number of times (including here and here) and am returning to it today because of a great little story posted on Modern Marketing:
The greatest problem that marketeers have these days is that no one really cares what they say. The only opinions people are interested in are [...]
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As I’m reading more about the premium rate phone line scandal here in the UK I’m struck more and more by the thought that a healthy industry wouldn’t try and rip off its customers like this.
In the FT this morning (again no link because of their DRM) they reported that Virgin Radio and LBC have [...]
The strength of the internet advertising market is well documented (The Internet Advertising Bureau puts the UK online ad market at just shy of £1bn for H106 and growing at 40%). It is rare to see a large market with this sort of growth, and the good news is that it has still got a long [...]
An FT article today about the upcoming CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas “Old media comes out fighting against the titans of tech” (no link due to DRM) contained the following passage:
[Last year] Google announced a content distribution agreement with CBS at CES and went on to acquire YouTube.
But it still faces lengthy negotiations [...]
I have generally been sceptical of content plays because:
Fashions change – today’s heroes are tomorrow’s has-beens
Content prices are only going one way
Distribution has been difficult
Barriers to entry have been low OR production costs have been high; and
DRM doesn’t work
Following a couple of excellent presentations at Le Web 3 I am re-visiting this conclusion for video [...]
I have been over at Le Web 3 in Paris for the last couple of days. In summary good conference, lots of interesting ideas, very nice to finally meet Raphael Labbe (aka Leafar) and good to catch up with my old friends and colleagues Jeff Clavier and Marc Goldberg who I haven’t seen for a while. (BTW [...]
