Media Have to say I agree with the conventional press wisdom that Netflix’s signing of Ryan Murphy to a massive TV and movie development deal is an inside pitch at Disney, especially when combined with its deal with Shonda Rhimes. The company clearly wants to bring some big name household brand name creators to the … Continue reading Quick Takes – Marketing and Media News for 2/15/18
Quick Takes – Marketing and Media News for 2/13/18
I don’t have much to add to it but if you haven’t read this piece at Buzzfeed about the very real dangers we face from technology that allows reality to be manipulated in scary ways, you need to do so right damn now. Similarly, Wired has a report on the upheaval within Facebook in the … Continue reading Quick Takes – Marketing and Media News for 2/13/18
Quick Takes – Marketing and Media News for 2/8/18
Media The good news for The Los Angeles Times is that it finally has a new owner that isn’t Tronc, having been purchased by an L.A.-based billionaire who (checks notes) has been one of Tronc’s biggest investors to date and a major force in many of its initiatives. Hopefully that, along with a few other … Continue reading Quick Takes – Marketing and Media News for 2/8/18
Quick Takes: Marketing and Media News for 2/6/18
Media Songwriters, producers and musicians will now be viewable on Spotify, filling a long-standing gap in the information available on the streaming service. That’s all great but now I want them to add full liner notes so I can obsess over details like I did when I was in high school. If a news organization … Continue reading Quick Takes: Marketing and Media News for 2/6/18
Quick Takes: Marketing and Media News for 2/1/18
Media Quite the recounting here of the final days of Time, Inc. as new parent company Meredith takes over. Like many newsrooms across the country, there’s more than a little panic among the line editorial staff about what the future might hold even as they watch the C-level execs who presided over the company’s downfall … Continue reading Quick Takes: Marketing and Media News for 2/1/18
Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/30/18
Something decidedly not-great is happening at the L.A. Times. Sunday night it was announced (apparently publicly before staff was informed) that a new Editor-in-Chief had been named who comes from parent company Tronc’s business side. That comes after a week where the Times’ newsroom has been trying to figure out what’s going on with all … Continue reading Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/30/18
Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/25/18
Media Peter Kafka has a great graphic that shows what media platforms are owned in part or whole by what media companies. It’s actually a bit chilling seeing how few companies control such vast portions of our entertainment and news. Conde Nast is once more trying to get its entertainment division, launched years ago to … Continue reading Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/25/18
Quick Takes – Content Marketing and Media News for 1/23/18
Media Amazon Studios seems to be in the midst of a bit of upheaval in terms of direction, canceling a number of beloved shows (many of them by female creators, which is coming off as a bit tone deaf) and with reports it’s shifting its film acquisitions away from indie fare to bigger blockbusters. That’s … Continue reading Quick Takes – Content Marketing and Media News for 1/23/18
Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/18/18
One of the longest-lived parts of the internet is going by the wayside as The Huffington Post has announced it’s doing away with its contributor network and replacing it with a more structured approach centered around Opinions and Personal categories. Those sections will feature material from freelancers and others, either solicited by editors or pitched … Continue reading Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/18/18
Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/16/18
Media Crackle will rebrand itself as “Sony Crackle” because, according to the story, the company wants to leverage the power of the Sony name. That’s code for “the person who kept insisting it didn’t need to be corporately branded is no longer with the company and so someone finally got their way.” CBS and Viacom … Continue reading Quick Takes: Content Marketing and Media News for 1/16/18
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