Raymond Snoddy says there is one small worm in the bud when it comes to cable networks all over both Europe and the US; while revenues are holding up reasonably well – and even continuing to rise despite the recession – subscriber numbers are being hit… Almost everywhere competition to cable is becoming more intense!
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James Whitmore, managing director at Postar, wonders whether our industry has a place for leaders in the classic sense…
Continuing a theme from my last but one piece (Has TV been Googled?), where I criticised government and regulators for constantly snipping at and limiting the creative industries in the UK, we now have a two-pronged assault on children’s television…
Raymond Snoddy: “The bottom line is that for the bottom line doing good is good business”…
Dominic Finney, director at digital consultancy FaR, says standard ad units remain the bedrock of the majority of digital advertising campaigns – and there is now a strong argument to say that spend in these standard units is set to grow…
Apologies to regular readers of this column for not writing about the August ABC’s or letting you know that I was having a short break. I suppose we could have got a guest substitute like they do for Clarkson when he is in Barbados…
Raymond Snoddy: Could it be that welcoming the embrace of social networks could be the best thing that ever happened to television rather than, as generally assumed until now, a slow march to oblivion?
Jim Marshall says that while the Arab Spring seemed to be a righteous uprising, aided and abetted by a liberating social media network, events at home (in the riots and the hacking scandal) saw a potentially more unsavoury side to the use of some media channels… not so much an Arab Spring as an English Rusty Nail!
Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on mobile advertising; Facebook making money; mobile disruptive music and Amazon…
Raymond Snoddy says it is totally banal to say that instant communication tools in the hands of almost every citizen can change societies dramatically at breakneck speed and be a force for both good and evil in equal measure. But it would be true…