Ever since he embarked on an informal career questioning some of the more outlandish claims from the online community, the Media Native has been pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to ruffle feathers and generate verbal spats. After last week’s Videology riposte to his TV On Demand article, will the Media Native have the final say?
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Not only can the ITV re-brand be said to be the first 21st century re-brand, says Decipher’s Nigel Walley, but ITV have a claim to be the first truly 21st century broadcaster.
BBC’s iPlayer benefited from a sprinkle of Christmas magic as December saw requests jump up by 5% to a record 217 million, according to data released today.
Ben Allott at Callcredit believes that if retailers want to continue to survive the economic downturn they need to be savvier with their marketing and start connecting the dots between the online and offline worlds to help drive consumers back to the high-street.
A couple of years ago, David Brennan was asked to produce a document to demonstrate why TV on demand airtime CPMs were worth 4-5 times average spot rates. To say that was one of the most difficult presentations he’s ever produced would be a massive understatement…
It’s only mid-January but, as Aegis’s Jim Marshall marvels, there have been a number of high-profile media spats already. Let’s hope there are many more in 2013, he says – and that the Goliaths of the industry continue to find the going tough…
Kinetic Worldwide, one of the global leaders of planning and buying Out of Home media, has announced the appointment of Stuart Taylor as CEO for the UK.
There has been much online speculation over the last week about a “major announcement” from Facebook, due later today. Could it really be a search engine to rival Google?
In the last 100 days we have seen amazing new devices bought by millions of people – with the ‘old’ devices expanding the total reach of smartphones. In the US it’s estimated that 40% of homes now have tablets; wondering what will be the next big tablet seems less useful than writing a strategy to get your brand onto the tablets already out there.
Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Dijit Media and Editor of LIVEdigitally, has a theory on what could “kill” the TV industry as we know it – it’s called “Catch-Up TV” and it’s going to come back to haunt the industry.