digital

Dear Netflix: Here’s My Opinion

by Daniel Taylor on 9 November, 2009

Why is Netflix is sending out e-mail surveys? Aren’t they tracking our usage?

New Technology, Same Old Design

by Daniel Taylor on 12 October, 2009

The media industry busily applying old designs to new technologies. Kind of like when people started building bridges out of steel, but using designs optimized for wood. But just because a company made money selling print advertising in newspapers, that doesn’t mean that their next business will be Internet display advertising.

Putting Pectin First

5 October 2009

Analyzing the future of the media industry in terms of advertising is kinda like talking about jelly market by writing a report about pectin.

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What About “Click Here”?

26 August 2009

While we’re cleaning out the old language of technology, we might want to think about adding “click here” to the list.

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Meaningful Questions About Mobile Media

23 August 2009

When will American consumers get the memo about mobile music? You know, the one that said for us to start listening to music on our mobile phones. Or are our expectations unreasonable? And are we missing the Big Picture here?

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MSFT: Infrastructure vs. Advertising

20 August 2009

Microsoft made big noises about advertising revenues, but the company continues to retrench in the infrastructure business it knows so well. Can infrastructure pay off as well as Internet search? In this post, we explain why it can’t.

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Do Consumers Really Want To Pay For Media?

13 August 2009

I have a post entitled “Do Consumers Really Want To Pay For Media” over at NewTeeVee.

Turns out that this is a pretty big topic to tackle in a blog post. But we had a ton of interesting insights from the data we assembled for the report The Ongoing Battle for the Digital Home available (subscription only) at GigaOM Pro.

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Digital Home Report available at GigaOM Pro

12 August 2009

The report we wrote for GigaOM Pro — The Ongoing Battle for the Digital Home — is now available.

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