Archive for March, 2009
Ex Myspace Employee Promotes Controversy and Family Guy Loves It
Family Guy is a billion dollar franchise but would they be valued so high if they placed copyright claims on all their YouTube content and disabled embedding? Would Seth MacFarlane have been able to sign a 100 million dollar deal until 2012 for his creations? This is largest contract out there now eclipsing Keifer Sutherland’s [...]
The Not So Secret Viral Marketing Strategies
On the subject of Viral Videos one question prevails when people sit down and think about viral marketing strategies: is content king? In previous decades the question was debated through examples of companies like Comcast and Disney (who almost joined under one umbrella way back when). Comcast and Disney both flirted with the idea [...]
Elite Economic Thought Translated for the Music Industry
You will have to excuse the substantial amount of quoting in this article but it is needed in order to demonstrate that some of the elite thinkers of this world have thought about and printed the very economic concepts that are usurping the music industry. So it begins. All quotes are from Eric D. Beinhocker’s [...]