Media: Blogs

DATA BEATS GOLIATH

In today's media landscape, content creators and production companies face their own Goliaths — mighty streaming giants that dominate the industry.

July 31, 2025

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The Media Platform Paradox

According to PwC, media companies distribute content across an average of 7.2 platforms. Imagine you’re a farmer cultivating 7 fields, each with unique soil conditions, irrigation needs and harvesting schedules.

July 30, 2025

Media’s New Kingmaker

When I started working in the media industry, we often made decisions based on gut feeling and intuition — maybe a spreadsheet if we felt particularly sophisticated.

April 17, 2025

The FAST Track To Success

As subscription fatigue continues, the rise of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) represents a seismic shift in the media and entertainment landscape.

December 18, 2024

A Double-Edged Sword

While AI offers copyright protection benefits, generative AI raises concerns about content ownership and potential piracy. I want to elaborate on this thought and further explore AI’s impact on the media and entertainment industry.

September 23, 2024

From Sci-Fi To Reality: Media Industry Takeaways From The 2024 NAB Show

The 2024 NAB Show, the preeminent conference and exhibition produced annually by the National Association of Broadcasters that drives the evolution of broadcast, media and entertainment.

June 5, 2024

Revenue Revolution In The Digital Age

Winning the day with media revenue management In this lightning-fast digital era, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technologies are changing how we select and view media...

August 24, 2023

Is the Metaverse the Promised Land for Media and Entertainment, or a Fleeting Fad?

What’s your metastrategy for intellectual property (IP) rights, royalties and content management? The Metaverse is the next generation of the internet—a scaled, interconnec...

July 25, 2022

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Reach for the Cloud to Obtain a New Media Ecosystem

Cloud Rights and Royalty Management can Help Improve Media Scalability Powerhouse players have been making dramatic moves in the media and entertainment industry: Disney ac...

April 1, 2022

2021 Media Consolidation in Streaming Services

Media Merger Mania

What does the continued media consolidation mean for the industry? Like a scene ripped from a blockbuster movie script, a giant tech company scooped up a major Hollywood st...

October 20, 2021

What’s So Nifty About NFTs?

The topic du jour in the media and entertainment industry is NFTs, and for good reason. In the midst of a global pandemic, NFT trading volume exploded in 2020 with $250 mil...

August 13, 2021

The Need for Speed: SVOD Services Meet Demand to Stay Competitive

When the world took a hard stop last year there were more questions than answers about how we would collectively respond to the pandemic. Our lives shifted dramatically in ...

May 11, 2021

Bold Media Predictions, Part 2

Getting You Ready for 2021 In my last blog, I gave you 3 of my media predictions for 2021, which, let me tell you, generated some interesting back-channel conversations on ...

December 21, 2020

6 Direct to Consumer Trends for 2021, Part 1

Bold predictions for the media and entertainment industry My friends, family, and colleagues will tell you, I’m ‘that guy.’ You all know someone like me—that person who can...

December 14, 2020

Who Still Pays for Cable? And Why?

There are a dozen websites and Twitter accounts dedicated to divorcing your cable provider and mixing up the perfect cocktail of streaming services. If CordCutting.com is a...

April 5, 2019

The Race is On for Delivering Content to Consumers: Can You Easily Monetize

Ability will never catch up to the demand for it," – Confucius While these words have never been truer – especially in the direct to consumer (DTC) economy ̵...

March 26, 2019