TV Subscriptions Down in 11 of Last 12 Quarters, Netflix Up 73% Over Same Period About two years ago I managed to finagle myself into a lunch that included Sumner Redstone sitting next to me. During a break in conversation, I leaned in and quietly asked...
Consumers in general are surprising. Smaller purchases are impulsive by nature or emotionally driven to fill a need. More and more I feel we should have majored in psychology and not marketing. Data can help guide us though, but only if we are prepared. Its been...
What do you do when your search engine company of 11 years becomes the largest in the world? You make a bigger company. Last week Larry Page, the (now) former CEO of Google, announced via a blog that he was starting a new company called Alphabet. The...
In todays world the line between advertising and genuine content has grown thiner and thiner. Brands are trying to connect their products to the larger world that is their brand. Porsche has recently created a new website for their motorsport line of vehicles. Merging information about...
According to the FCC the earlier proposed merger between the two largest Internet providers, Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC), was unfair to competition and was denied. Now its Charters’ turn… wait who? For those who haven’t heard that name before, Charter is a telecommunications company just...
Unless you have been living under a rock the past few days, you are aware that Verizon Wireless just bought AOL Inc. for 4.4 billion dollars. Is this more of the retro, let’s go “90’s” culture trend? What’s going on? If you’re asking yourself why the...
Yesterday was Photoshop’s 25th anniversary. Like most major pieces of software or social media platforms, Photoshop’s conception derived from unusual means. In fact, the creation of the most popular photo editing software in the world was influenced by a strong case of procrastination. Thomas Knoll was...
Recently Swedish officials raided the most popular, Stockholm-based, online file-sharing server, The Pirate Bay. They seized computers, servers, and other equipment in hopes of quashing the underground, and largely illegal, torrent site. However, the minds behind TPB seem to be rebuilding one step at a time....
Facebook’s video player is powerful… and it’s pissing people off, namely YouTube. In recent months, YouTube has struggled on Facebook, a platform on which it had previously excelled. This decline correlates to media companies and buyers posting their content directly to Facebook instead of the...
