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Huh. Google Video Store Still Not Up…
Last Friday it was a minor delay. But now we're several days in……
Last Friday it was a minor delay. But now we’re several days in…
Year: 2006
SEMPO on the State of the Search Industry
Chris has a nice write up of a SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) report. The report had both predictable findings and a few surprises. According to the study, the U.S. and Canadian SEM industry has grown from $4 billion to $5.75 billion, with paid placement accounting for 83%…
Chris has a nice write up of a SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) report.
The report had both predictable findings and a few surprises. According to the study, the U.S. and Canadian SEM industry has grown from $4 billion to $5.75 billion, with paid placement accounting for 83% of the total spend.
Despite its demonstrated effectiveness and the amount of time and energy search marketers spend discussing organic search engine optimization techniques, SEO accounted for just 11% of overall spending, or $643 million.
Portals Are So 1990s
But if a powerful distribution partner wants to do one, well, we're in!…
But if a powerful distribution partner wants to do one, well, we’re in!
The Times, Blodget, Safa
I love seeing the Times give Henry a direct link to his (relaitively) new blog, where he ponders Google's valuation (based on Safa's 600 call). The big question, again, on Big Media's mind is "Are we in a bubble, and is Google the Soap?" I thought we settled this…
I love seeing the Times give Henry a direct link to his (relaitively) new blog, where he ponders Google’s valuation (based on Safa’s 600 call). The big question, again, on Big Media’s mind is “Are we in a bubble, and is Google the Soap?” I thought we settled this (OK, all I really did was toss in my two cents), but apparently not. Honestly, I think the media is terrified of screwing this story up again – of believing in it too much, or perhaps worse, of missing the boat if this time it turns out the Web really is a Super Big Deal.
Heilemann on MSFT
When John H. writes about Microsoft, we should read, he wrote a great book on the company back in the late 90s…….
When John H. writes about Microsoft, we should read, he wrote a great book on the company back in the late 90s….
Wow! Time Inc. Gets a Clue
Way back in 2002, Josh Quittner, who is a pal and also the Editor of Business 2.0, took a risk on a down-and-out dot-com publishing exec and contracted me to write a column for his magazine, the only one left after the Standard and its ilk bit the dust….
Way back in 2002, Josh Quittner, who is a pal and also the Editor of Business 2.0, took a risk on a down-and-out dot-com publishing exec and contracted me to write a column for his magazine, the only one left after the Standard and its ilk bit the dust. But when I got the Time Inc. contract (B2’s owners,) I was bereft. I had an issue with the fact that what I wrote would be behind AOL/TW’s paywall. So I requested, nice as pie, that I be able to post my columns here, on this site. Josh agreed, and the rest is history.
Well, all that’s moot now. CNNMoney is picking up my column, and all of B2 for that matter, and it’s all free.
Here’s everything I ever wrote for Josh!
Enjoy, I sure as heck will!
Google’s Waterloo
Gary discovers a Waterloo, Canada based company that Google purchased – mobile software, including browsing and email. I must say, it must not suck to be Google if you're in charge of biz dev….
Gary discovers a Waterloo, Canada based company that Google purchased – mobile software, including browsing and email. I must say, it must not suck to be Google if you’re in charge of biz dev.
Thoughts on Google Video Store, and Google Pack
As I posted earlier, I had the chance to talk with Marissa Mayer about Google Pack, and Jennifer Feiken, who runs Google Video. I'd have posted earlier, but I was under embargo. The news is out now, and the analysis begins (live coverage at Engadget here). My two cents…
As I posted earlier, I had the chance to talk with Marissa Mayer about Google Pack, and Jennifer Feiken, who runs Google Video. I’d have posted earlier, but I was under embargo.
The news is out now, and the analysis begins (live coverage at Engadget here). My two cents on both: Google is now officially a Really Big Company, and is acting like one. Diversify your revenue streams, for one thing. Leverage and consolidate your core strengths, for another. And protect your vulnerable flanks, for yet another.
The ability to sell video is great, but not news. We’ve known that was coming. What is really interesting is the pricing leverage: Google is splitting revenues 70/30 – that’s 70 to the content producer. Also very important is that the producers of content are the ones who set the price – again, totally different from traditional models. Thirdly, Google is doing its own DRM. That’s very interesting, and probably best left as the subject of another post. Producers can decide to not use DRM, as Charlie Rose did, Feiken told me.
This is a major step toward entirely new models of content distribution, and if I were Comcast, DirecTV, the telcos, or frankly anyone in the traditional video business, I’d be a bit concerned. It gives content producers far more power to connect directly to audiences, and the leverage will only increase – in five years, it won’t be 70/30, it’ll more likely by 80/20. Gary has a good roundup of some of Google’s competitors in video. (And Tristan has an overview here that is useful too). Clearly they are not the only player here, and the video/content industry has no interest in insuring that one party owns distribution.
Read MoreYahoo Go
Terry Semel's big news this morning was Yahoo Go, more on it here from Charlene Li, and Yahoo News. Remember my mobile prediction? There was a lot of news in this space, Google and Yahoo and Motorola, for example. More coming, I am sure…….
Terry Semel’s big news this morning was Yahoo Go, more on it here from Charlene Li, and Yahoo News. Remember my mobile prediction? There was a lot of news in this space, Google and Yahoo and Motorola, for example. More coming, I am sure….
Google and Monster: A Dumb Idea
Maybe this is true. But I hope not. Would Google want to get into this business so directly? Well, perhaps it would want to mimic Yahoo, which bought HotJobs, but really, honestly, this feels totally out of character. Recall my DNA posts way back, about how the two companies…
Maybe this is true. But I hope not. Would Google want to get into this business so directly? Well, perhaps it would want to mimic Yahoo, which bought HotJobs, but really, honestly, this feels totally out of character. Recall my DNA posts way back, about how the two companies are different in their approach to content and community? Should Google buy Monster, well, next stop would be an entertainment guy running the show. I hear Ovitz has some time on his hands….