Tag Archives: numbers

Negative-sum games

November 9, 2009 – 9:01 am

As if current economic conditions weren’t dire enough, several forces conspire to push the media sector’s financial performance further downward. These factors are an obsession with market share, price wars, and first movers’ ability to set the tone, often for the worse.
Take the iPhone application market as an example. At first, publishers were elated: [...]

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The Long Tail: Coming Up Short.

September 27, 2009 – 8:11 pm

The Long Tail is a beautiful intellectual construct. Beautiful, therefore right. Who wouldn’t want to see it succeed? Chris Anderson coined the term back in 2004, in a Wired magazine article. A skillfully marketed book followed, which turned out to be a bestseller (i.e. the the Tail’s profitable head). When the concept began to gain [...]

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Somber Sober Energy Thoughts

March 22, 2009 – 6:54 pm

This is what happens with looooong conference calls: you’re sitting in front of your speakerphone, on mute so other participants can’t hear your typing or other asocial activities; your PC displays the PowerPoint under discussion.  You get bored, distracted, or, in the best cases, antsy.
So, as I was listening to one more paean to the [...]

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Numbers to keep in mind

December 28, 2008 – 10:52 pm

This article is part of an occasional serie featuring interesting raw data. Use the tag “numbers” to see the previous entries.
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No predictions for this last 2008 issue. We all know what’s ahead: a difficult year, with double-digit drop in revenue for newspapers. A year that will see many news outlets simply wiped out. There [...]

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By the numbers (2)

September 21, 2008 – 6:00 am

An occasional look at industry data and miscellaneous other items. See the previous compilation here.
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Web monetization
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$100,0000 a day. This is the price tag for an advertiser to appear on Wall Street Journal’s home page. Rupert (Murdoch) smiles: WSJ.com can generate $100m just in ad revenue, in addition to its million subscribers.
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$500,000 a day, that’s the [...]

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