by Mike McGuire | June 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
So now we’ll get an answer to the $9.99 question: will making TV shows available on consumer PCs and portable devices be enough to get those consumers to pay directly for TV shows? Shows they’re probably already getting for free or through their service provider. OK, wait, let’s put a real fine point on this [...]
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by Mike McGuire | June 9, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the serious challenges facing media companies and new online (and I include mobile in “online”) distribution intermediaries is knowing what content is available to license out (media and content companies) and how to secure licensed content and then track its consumption (distribution intermediaries). Royalty calculations, among other contractual obligations, are paid out based [...]
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by Mike McGuire | May 10, 2010 | Comments Off
Want to pay to rent a movie that’s still in the theaters – or just left the theaters and is wending its way through various distribution windows before it gets to the DVD rental or online VOD services – and watch it on your TV? Well, there’s what we will pay for as consumers and [...]
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by Mike McGuire | March 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Interesting news here that Comedy Central (a Viacom property), home of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report,” is going to pull those two shows from the Hulu line-up, as of March 9. Apparently the reason is that Comedy Central and Hulu couldn’t agree on a revenue split of advertising generated on [...]
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by Mike McGuire | February 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Walmart’s the latest entrant in the over-the-top sweepstakes and it could be one of those deals that will be viewed in the future as an important example of my colleague Andrew Frank’s “IP-Dominant-Gene Theory” that applies to all things media. By acquiring VUDU, Walmart positions itself to be an important intermediary between content providers [...]
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by Mike McGuire | September 2, 2009 | Comments Off
OK, maybe Apple would have kept Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, on Apple’s board if Google’s tech-hegemony had stopped with Android. Maybe, maybe even the Chrome browser might have been acceptable. But a streaming rental movie business? AppleTV might only be a “hobby” Apple continues to invest in (as Tim Cook, Apple president/COO, said during [...]
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by Mike McGuire | March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
Can the popularity of Rock Band franchise translate and extend the timeless — but let’s face it, musically archaic — Beatles catalog to a generation of folks who grew up disconnected from the album, AOR radio but have come of age in a time when music is effectively a public good? And speaking of “public [...]
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by Mike McGuire | November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
Maybe none of the old-guard protect-copyright-at-any-cost management was looking when elements of MTV Networks inked this deal with MySpace and Auditude to monetize user-generated video. I like to believe that what we saw with this deal (commentary from colleague Andrew Frank and me is here on the Gartner.com site) is that enlightened self-interest rules the [...]
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