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A few days ago, billionaire Mark Cuban (who owns various entertainment assets, including a film production studio, theatre chain, etc.) posed an open challenge on his blog:
… How do you get people out of the house to see your movie without spending a fortune. How can you convince 5 million people to give up their [...]

A few months ago, a dinner companion informed me that Google was in Hollywood trying to secure exclusive distribution rights to films and TV. Intrigued, I poked around with some folks-in-the-know and, sure enough, Google is wheeling-n-dealing for exclusives. That being the case, I have a suggestion for Google. Go all out and [...]

By Robert Young
In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google…
“…could have bought MySpace three months before we did for half the price. They thought, ‘It’s nothing special. We can do that.’”
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By Robert Young
Last week at a conference in New York City, the head of Fox Interactive Media, Ross Levinsohn, told the audience:
“More mainstream marketing on MySpace will be kept to the “well-lit” areas of the site, like the Books, Comedy, Film, and Games sections rather than on individual profile pages, which have less strict content [...]

By Robert Young
Let me expand the title… as Hollywood is increasingly forced to adopt the Internet as a distribution channel, should it be afraid that Google will eventually become the dominant gatekeeper for video?This question, which used to be one of the most pressing in the minds of media executives, seems to have been put [...]

By Robert Young
No one can argue that MySpace has been the “it girl” for the past year. And the fact that she belongs to Rupert Murdoch only seems to have heightened the envy, and gotten everyone’s knickers in a twist. As a result, it seems that nearly every media company and venture capital [...]