by now you may have realised my obsession with the revenue per user of different types of digital plays. why, you may ask? the critical issue in many digital environments is understanding what the key levers of your business are and where the true margins are and could be coming from. revenue per user comparissons… [Read more…]
October 14, 2010
eventbrite, a leading eventing software business has figured out teh value of each facebook referal is $2,52 – and it makes sense as people virally send out event invites to their friends. with social networks rapidly becoming bigger sources of traffic for some sites than search the connection beween ecommerce and social networking is going… [Read more…]
December 6, 2009
new technologies and trends to increase the relevance of banners is a boon for media companies that create content. a great article by search engine land shows what the new gadgets are.
December 5, 2009
apple buys lala in recognition of changing shape of music sales to streaming model from pure downloads.
December 3, 2009
Murdoch and buddies bitch about "feee" and the internet killing newspapers. The internet is your best hope fighting against your real newspaper killer - news channels on TV! the TV breaks the news, not newspapers. People have the TV on the whole day, it is becoming companion media in some instances. Newspapers have sold a "package" to advertisers based on a thin veneer of news and a whole lot of aggregation - so revenues will drop as they have less to sell, only news.
November 30, 2009
how do you achieve success in the long tail, is it by plan or by accident - and finally, who actually succeeds there?
November 24, 2009
could the very concept of "owning" music be old fashioned? in todays always connected world does the idea of having a copy of music even make sense when you can access it at any time? the trend is moving away from ownership towards access, but labels are resisting and the problem may lie with corporate remuneration as much as the generation gap.
November 21, 2009
Small blogs are now starting to take on the big media fish. Interestingly they arent eyeing advertising as their core revenues but rather.... shopping
November 20, 2009
steve case sells his stake in revolution money to amex. ecommerce payments still a hot market area
January 29, 2011
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