Archive for May, 2010
For a recent Telco 2.0 conference, I decided to try and get a sense of just what proportion of media experiences could be attributed to files acquired through pirated channels as compared to those experiences that are the function of more “traditional” and licensed access channels (e.g., radio and television). The pirate channel I chose [...]
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Recently, it has been argued by a number of people that the age of selling media has passed, and the age of selling access to media has begun. I have wondered about this claim a bit, and upon digging around it seems that this purchase-to-access proposition is a position that could use some questioning if [...]
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On Sunday, YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday. Congratulations! On this birthday, the video site announced approximately 2,000,00,000 views each day. In the wake of this announcement, Eliot VanBuskirk over at Wired.com suggested YouTube viewing now tops network prime time viewing—at least in the US. Recently at the Telco 2.0 conference, I tried to put YouTube [...]
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