Why NetFlix Trounced Blockbuster – It’s all about Consumer Power

Today’s Bankruptcy Filing of former video powerhouse Blockbuster highlights the difference between a company that pays attention to the consumer and respects changing consumer habits and one that worried more about its own problems and not its customers, and instead kept to its existing business model way too long. While Blockbuster tried for years to [...]

The Gutenberg Moment: The Rise of a New Form of Storytelling

The word this week that The RIM folks, who brought you the Blackberry, were readying their first tablet product gives us a chance to look at where this genre is in the development scheme. It’s my belief that the Tablet format will be the one that finally puts the new digital platforms into their place [...]

Bringing Newspaper Subscriptions to IPads: Interviewed On Bloomberg TV

Should Apple sell Newspaper subscriptions on IPads? Of course they should and the Newspaper industry should be testing price points and negotiating terms as quickly as they can. News companies simply must go where the readers are. It’s no longer about newspapers, it’s about news. Apple is offering them a fantastic platform. Sure Apple wants [...]

Unclear on the Concept

Nothing has driven me crazier than losing my main link to the world of entertainment, my 50-inch-Panasonic TV. A terrific TV for 5 years, it just stopped working. The events of the next couple of days taught me that the consumer electronics industry still has a way to go when it comes to serving customers [...]

Convergence Continues: Canada’s Phone Company Buys Content

The Media Industry Convergence Strategy continues with word that BCE, Canada’s largest telecommunications company, is buying the country’s largest broadcaster, CTV. Besides getting the largest broadcast network, for it’s $1.3 billion (Canadian) investment, BCE will also be picking up several cable channels. (Sound familiar, Comcast and NBC?). The deal follows an announcement that Canada’s Cable [...]