Future Media Business Models
Figuring out how to make money in media in the future.
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TV is moving from a world where distribution dictates business models to one where business models need to fit the jobs consumers want done. That is the best way to understand Disney’s latest announcement.
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Subscriptions are the future of local news: the key, though, is getting rid of newspapers.
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ESPN’s decision to close Grantland seems to be more evidence that there is no future outside of massive scale or one-man operations. Bill Simmons’ recent successes, though, suggest that the answer could be the exact…
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An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise
An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.
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AI and the Human Condition
AI might replace all of the jobs; that’s only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.
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Cloudflare’s Content Independence Day, Google’s Advantage, Monetizing AI
Cloudflare is unilaterally blocking AI crawlers unless they are willing to pay
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The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
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AI, NIL, and Zero Trust Authenticity
AI-generated content is not going to harm those with the capability of breaking through: it will make them stronger, aided by Zero Trust Authenticity