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What if Redstone ‘Googled’ Murdoch?

Robert Young, Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (14)

(Editor’s Note: The following piece was co-authored with Scott Karp, editor of Publishing 2.0.)
One by one, the big media companies and the Internet giants have started to ante up for the big poker game over the future of the video content business. Google started it all with its acquisition of YouTube. Then [...]

Will video kill the Google star?

Robert Young, Monday, March 26, 2007 at 12:41 PM PT Comments (0)

When one is asked about Google’s incredible success to date, and what they did so right, the obvious answer will likely involve an explanation of the brilliant technologies that make up PageRank and Adwords. But if one looks under the hood, there’s also a not-so-obvious reason that played an equally critical role in Google’s success: [...]

Is Google a Media Company?

Robert Young, Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 3:21 PM PT Comments (10)

As we all learned last week, Google’s efforts to strike content deals with the major media companies, on behalf of their YouTube division, seems to have hit a wall. Viacom pulled all their video clips, NBC accused them of “Mafioso” negotiating tactics, CBS backed off at the 11th hour of deal talks, while Fox [...]

Hollywood Disrupted

Robert Young, Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 12:42 PM PT Comments (17)

Reading through the LA Times, as I do before The Oscars every year, I came across a fantastic Op-Ed written by a respected Hollywood author by the name of Neal Gabler. The opinion piece, titled “The Movie Magic is Gone”, explains how Hollywood is losing its place as the epicenter of cultural products and [...]

MTV is Poised for a Comeback

Robert Young, Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 12:40 AM PT Comments (15)

There has been much debate about the merits of Viacom’s recent decision to demand the take-down over 100,000 of its copyrighted video clips on YouTube, which included video assets from MTV, Comedy Central, and other Viacom-owned brands. Well, ‘debate’ is probably not an accurate word to use here, as there seems to be an [...]

Facebook – Smart or Stupid?

Robert Young, Monday, February 5, 2007 at 7:00 AM PT Comments (41)

As we all know, one of the biggest stories in 2006 was about a deal that never happened. Despite multiple rumors of buyout offers from various suitors, Facebook rejected them all and decided to stay independent. Now, whether that was a smart decision, or a stupid one, is likely to be one of [...]

Bankruptcy: The Opportunity to Fail

Robert Young, Friday, January 26, 2007 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (25)

A former mentor, and a very smart man, once told me that the greatest invention in this democracy and capitalist system we live in and know as the United States is, of all things, bankruptcy. Yep, bankruptcy… the opportunity to fail.
I mention this because I believe Jeremy Liew, venture capitalist at Lightspeed and subsequently, [...]

Nothing Remote about Control Anymore

Robert Young, Monday, January 22, 2007 at 11:00 AM PT Comments (6)

The title of this piece is a quote from Nancy Robinson, VP & Consumer Strategist at Iconoculture (from this recent CNET article). Now that’s a great quote! It’s right up there with something a very close friend/mentor used to say in the early ‘90s… “let’s put the Me back in Media!” (That was [...]

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