Web Video Eats Its Vegetables
Streaming Media East convened last week in New York, and there was a healthy dose of best business practices prescribed for both new and old media’s use of online video. Indeed, monetization was probably one of the show’s central themes. Sure, this is all cool and super fun, but let’s pay some bills while we’re at it. videoegg co-founder and CEO Matt Sanchez offers his take on the medium’s scale, price and product.
Long Live The Upfront
The upfront has long been rumored to be dying, or at least having its curio cabinets moved into assisted living. Certainly the fragmentation of the media marketplace makes it exponentially more complicated to place messaging. And ROI pressure makes waste an increasingly less acceptable cost of doing business. Can the traditionally flamboyant wheeling and dealing in May really handle those demands?
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