Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Netflix has just launched a set-top box to help the migration of it’s 8.2m DVD rental subs to delivery via the web. This can only be sensible - clearly the DVD isn’t going to be with us forever. Plus the box is being well received - Wired say it is Just Shy of [...]
The future continues to look bleak for record labels as they are becoming less and less important to their artists. This is from Dave Cushman’s blog (tks to OpenGardens for the pointer):
Robbie Williams had made five times as much money from his deal with T-mobile Sony Ericsson in one year than he had from [...]
I’ve been hearing rumours to this effect for a while now, but yesterday Eric Schmidt confirmed that YouTube isn’t exactly throwing off oodles of cash. Reported here on News.com and here on Sillicon Alley Insider.
I wish this were not the case for two reasons.
Firstly, everyone with an interest in the startup ecosystem wants to [...]
Last week Jeff Nolan wrote a post entitled Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” where he bemoans the lack of true innovation and the state of venture capital generally. He is talking about Silicon Valley, but what he writes applies equally over here in Europe.
He correctly observes that a lot of money is still [...]
This is from the Telefonica Tumblelog:
After nearly a year in closed beta, Google is expected to announce tonight that its AdSense for Video program is now open to publishers. When the program’s pilot was announced last May, AdSense for Video was intended to serve up video-in-video ads. Today the video part is gone, replaced by [...]
Apple yesterday announced an overhaul of it’s online video strategy, and provided some interesting data along the way. This market (consumption via the web of the same long-form professionally produced content that we watch on broadcast TV) is one that is big and obviously coming and as such has a lot of people positioning [...]
Check out the numbers in this excerpt from a Commentisfree report on the Edinburgh television festival last weekend.
On the eve of the festival, with consummate timing, Ofcom released its Communications Market Report - a study that reads like a pre-recorded obituary of the television industry. In 338 pages of close-set type, Ofcom lays out how [...]
I was pleased to read today on Marketing Pilgrim about YouTube premiering InVideo ads. It is at once a little surprising that they haven’t done something before now and a testimony to the problems of pre-rolls that they haven’t. (For a long time YouTube have had display ads around their videos - I am specifically [...]
At any given moment there are 13 million people online at eDonkey. Apparently that is about 50 times the number that are watching YouTube videos.
At least that is what I heard from the Reble guys at Y-Combinator this afternoon.
Back in November when I wrote that Internet TV will mean the end for channels I could see clearly (in my own mind at least…) that arranging linear schedules of TV programmes was an accident of history - a product of the limited available spectrum for distributing video content and the high cost of local [...]
