Happy birthday to us: It’s been a year since we published the very first episode of Cord Cutters. In that time, we’ve not only released 35 additional episodes but also learned a whole lot about the future of TV, and the people who reinvent it. Read more »
Simulmedia, the media marketing firm founded by ad veteran Dave Morgan, just raised a $9.25 million round of financing, according to an SEC filing. The company, which uses set-top box data to target TV ads to users, has now raised more than $20 million. Read more »
Today on the Net: net neutrality is a sticky issue for media and Internet companies, MySpace has launched its first music video app, dubbed Romeo, and cable distributors and programmers are looking increasingly to tablets for creating new video applications. Read more »
Cable providers could find customers defecting for other services, or possibly even cutting the cord if they don’t find ways to provide more value to their subscribers, according to a new survey from Strategy Analytics. As many as two-thirds of cable subscribers said they would switch […] Read more »
TiVo, in response to an FCC request for comment on “video device innovation” yesterday, pointed to abuse by cable companies that put their own business considerations ahead of the best interests of consumers, and in so doing, have stifled creativity in the digital device realm. (A […] Read more »
It seems the press has caught cord-cutter fever. Reading a recent Washington Post piece, you’d think we’ve entered some sort of Pay-TV apocalypse in which robots battle hipster armies who consume all their video entertainment on Macs, at least when they’re not making music videos. Others ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
2009 is not shaping up to be a golden year for media. But with business models in flux, the timing may just be right for unconventional thinking about the future of entertainment distribution. As providers’ business interests and consumers’ consumption interests come into alignment over the ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
