7 Things You Should Know About Second Screen Interaction
Originally presented in London at Screen Digest’s “The Future of Digital Media” event, this is Alan Wolk’s latest salvo in his attempt to bring common sense to the discussion around second screen: 7...
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Four Things Australian TV Broadcasters Could do to Become Better User-Centric...
2013 is shaping up to be a massive year in the Aussie broadcast TV industry. Online ad revenues are about to overtake free-to-air (FTA) TV ad spend, there’s talk of a consortium of FTA channels...
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The TV Industry Is Alive and Well: New @ Digiday
I have a new article about the TV industry up at Digiday this week, explaining why the business is currently more analogous to the pre-iPhone mobile phone industry than to the post-Napster music...
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KIT’s Alan Wolk Named One Of 20 Top Thinkers In Social TV and Second Screen
The impressive list includes Zeebox’s Anthony Rose, MIT’s Marie-Jose Monpetit, GetGlue’s Alex Iskold, Dijit’s Jeremy Toeman, Orange’s Nicolas Bry, Natan Edelsburg from Lost Remote and our own Alan...
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10 Questions About The TV Industry 2013
All the upheaval in the TV industry (and we’re just at the beginning) leaves us with lots of questions that can only be answered over time. Here are ten of the big ones we’ll be watching in 2013: 1....
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TV Everywhere Just Got Blown Wide Open: New On Digiday
Charlie Ergun sure knows how to keep things interesting. The Dish CEO poked his finger in the eye of the TV networks last year with his ad-skipping Hopper device. He just jabbed them again when he...
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The TV Business: A Primer For The Uninformed
It’s a relentless drumbeat: the TV industry is dead. It’s just like the music industry. 20somethings are avoiding the cord. I want HBO a la carte. YouTube will kill cable. The TV industry is dead. And...
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The Problem With Facebook Data
The more I use Facebook Graph Search, the more evident it becomes that Facebook made a major mistake with their most ubiquitous feature: the “Like.” Follow this train: Facebook’s value, their...
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From Digiday: Second Screen Is Not Social TV
While the terms “social TV” and “second screen” are often used interchangeably, they are, in fact, two different experiences: Social TV is a subset of second screen — and a somewhat minor one at that....
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Heresies
Every so often it’s a good exercise to examine some of the core beliefs of a company or industry and call out the ones that don’t make any sense. In the short run, saying out loud what a lot of people...
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