A Sign of Things to Come: The Audience for TV’s New Season Keeps Shrinking
Friday, October 3rd, 2008With every new season premiere of every show on TV, the story seems to be consistent: audiences are not coming back this fall. Just got an email from THR and all three articles in it were about TV networks hemorrhaging audiences: ABC ...
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Regarding the Crumbling/Rising Music Business
Friday, September 19th, 2008Heard a music producer last week rant about how iTunes is killing the music business. He thought that the 99-cent download doesn't float the traditional music industry, and that forcing consumers into $10+ full albums were the way to ...
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N Came and Went, But What Did it Mean?
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008I've lauded Stephen King's N. as the best web series I'd seen in a long time, but it ended with an awkward "okay, that's done now." Now what? As a fan, what am I supposed to do? Buy the book? ...
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Mad Men Twitter Accounts Suspended!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008AMC enacted their copyright and had Twitter suspend the accounts associated with their Mad Men characters. There are a lot of bloggers up-in-arms about this, as bloggers can be (read: "The DMCA sucks!" "Burn copyrights!" "Anarchy!"). Bloggers, who tend ...
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What’s Selling Online?
Monday, August 4th, 2008[This article originally appeared in the July/August 2008 issue of Script Magazine.] What’s Selling Online? As online entertainment matures into a viable business, is it worthwhile to sell your web series concepts to the new crop of online studios? By Robert Gustafson and ...
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Can Magazines Solve Online Video Distribution Woes?
Monday, July 21st, 2008You might call it expensive, archaic, or lame, but the TV development process does deliver something that online video does not: a semi-accurate prediction of viewership. Sponsors are still tepid about dipped big money into online video, for fear ...
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Batman’s Unique Trailer
Thursday, July 17th, 2008The latest Batman movie comes out tomorrow: "The Dark Knight." Surely this isn't news to you. If so, where you been? Aside from all the great buzz being hyped about this movie, there's been some great viral online marketing done. ...
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Car Companies Love Online Series
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008First there was Hammer & Coop, from MiniUSA. Now there's two new shows from TNT: Blank Slate from Acura and Lucky Change from Dodge. Cars are a perfect product placement for web series because they can add high-energy to any story. ...
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The Anatomy of Buzz
Thursday, July 10th, 2008My mom has no idea what 3G mobile technology means. But she knows that the Apple iPhone 3G comes out tomorrow. The buzz is on her lips, and everyone's lips. My personal measure of marketable buzz is: if my parents are ...
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Dotcom Networking All Over Again
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Attended a networking event last night at BlankSpaces, hosted by Originate Labs and Mixergy. They even hosted Twitter-based interviews with author and tech journalist Sarah Lacy. I've been heading to things like this on the online entertainment side for a ...
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