Archive for the ‘The Biz’ Category

Will Viewers Pay Youtube To Download?

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February 14th, 2009

Seth Goldstein over at Social Media Today describes youTube’s newest efforts to monitize its tremendous traffic in his post today. Seth reports that youTube is testing the downloading of videos for free or pay through Google Checkout. The certainly opens the door to compensate content producers for their work.

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Is it time to drop “social” from media?

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February 9th, 2009

The time may be right to move from using the term “social media” to just “media.”
It’s clear that the integration of social media tools with conventional media is occuring with lightening speed. Steve Rubell recently spoke to this point on a 2/2/09 post on Micro Persuasion. He makes a good case that all media is [...]

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Overall Trend is “Unmistakable”

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February 1st, 2009

Eric Sass at Media Daily News has an interesting read today on the fact that newspaper Website traffic is up, but revenues are down. John Sturm, president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America cited research from Nielsen Online showing that “Newspapers’ digital audience has grown 60% in the last three years.” Media Daily [...]

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The Erosion of Search

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January 23rd, 2009

According to a report released today by Ketchum Public Relations, consumers’ use of online search declined just slightly from 2006 with 61% of the sample using search to 59% in 2008. Obviously not a big dip, but it sure isn’t going up. Steve Smith on minonline makes a great point that internet users are now using social [...]

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