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The Future of Video & the Internet: The Year of Live! Millennials, China,...
Mary Meeker is a legendary Silicon Valley analyst, guru and investor. Each year, she delivers her annual Internet trends report to a rapt audience at Code Conference. Disruption: I’m sharing Meeker’s...
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SMASH: Celebrating the Best Science Media, Boston, September 20-22
I’m very excited about moderating a conversation about the BIG TRENDS in Science Media at the SMASH Conference in Boston next month. The session follows the opening Keynote by MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito....
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Choppertown: A Model Facebook Network with Two 2.0 Million Friends. (Part 1...
The message of Choppertown is that documentaries can make money from Facebook. It is the story about how a deficit-funded, observational documentary evolved into a ground-breaking Facebook “channel.”...
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Digital Video Landscape: “Producers Out! Tech-savvy Marketers In!”
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: It will be streamed, snapped, tweeted, and projected in virtual reality.” That’s the title of a presentation from tech strategist and investor Ashu Garg, who...
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Takeaways: Choppertown and the Wild West of Facebook Video (3 of 3)
Choppertown evolved from a credit card-financed first documentary to a profitable Facebook documentary channel. We profiled Choppertown‘s origins here (Part 1). And the takeoff as a hyper-niche...
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WildLIVE! Comes to Wildscreen, Bristol
WildLIVE! Understanding the Trend towards Real Time Wildlife Programming. Wildscreen, Bristol UK, October 12. LIVE is as hot as chili peppers. LIVE is popping up across territories, genres and...
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Facebook Video: Most Watched Publishers, September 2016
Who are the BIG GUNS in the Wild West of Social Media Video? Video is the fastest growing segment of the social media industry. Facebook has 1.57 billion mobile Monthly Active Users, and dominates...
View ArticleScience Producers’ Congress Takeaway #1: VR is a Big Bust
There was an unexpected consensus that VR is a bust as a mass consumer product at the excellent WCSFP panel RE-INVENTING TV IN THE DIGITAL AGE Virtual Reality has failed miserably to excite consumers...
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Science Congress Takeaway #2. Megyn Kelly and Living in Dangerous Times
Science Producers Congress was a success this year, thanks to the host public broadcaster SVT, the organizers, and the most beautiful city of Stockholm. The panels I attended were very rewarding. There...
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Science Congress Takeaway #3. LIVE! Leads ‘What’s the Buzz!’ Cab/Sat Model...
What’s The Buzz? LIVE! The famous session that covers the year’s editorial trends led off with safariLIVE, the Nat Geo Wild daily feed from Kruger National Park. We covered safariLIVE in a panel at...
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Realscreen Takeaways: Documentary Budgets, Facebook Strategy, China’s New...
Realscreen Summit 2017 came at a moment that felt weighted with history. It kicked off in Washington the day after the massive Women’s March in which many delegates participated, and ended as my new...
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AIDC: Australian International Documentary Conference. Post #1. The...
The Guardian‘s Head of Documentaries is Charlie Phillips. I caught up with him on the sunny terrace of Melbourne’s Federation Square. It was one of lots of productive conversations with buyers and...
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Jeremy Clarkson’s “Grand Tour” Scores Big for Amazon in Parrot Analytics’ New...
How do you measure the performance of unscripted and documentary programs online and in social media? It’s a big question because Amazon, Netflix and other online platforms don’t share their data on...
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Big Trends in the Internet Video Economy: Takeaways from Silicon Valley
Mary Meeker is a super-analyst of the Internet Economy. Her presentation at the annual Code Conference has earned cult status. Her predictions are followed by industry participants with such intensity...
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U.S. Factual Networks: Ten Year Viewing Trends. Sunny Side Takeaway #1
A 10-year ratings snapshot shows that U.S. factual networks are far from falling off a cliff. And Europe has increased potential as a co-production partner. That’s the message that I shared over and...
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David Attenborough Dominates Online Audience Demand Data. U.S. / UK Top 20...
David Attenborough is 90 and still the Alpha. That’s the message from Parrot Analytics‘ Top 20 rankings of online audience demand for programs in the Documentary & Factual category for the U.S. and...
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U.S. Cable Channels Forecast: Dark Clouds With Silver Linings. Takeaways
Industry analyst SNL Kagan forecasts a big decline in U.S. multichannel video subscriber homes: 2015: 98.1 million. 2027: 77.4 million. That’s down 21%. There are 119.6 million U.S. TV Homes today....
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Generational Switch From Cable / Satellite to Streaming Services: Pew Research
The data is rolling in to confirm the generational switch in TV viewing from cable / satellite channels to streaming services. Young U.S. Adults 18-29 report that the primary way they watch TV is 61%...
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PBS & Natural History Programming: A Ratings Snapshot for the Jackson Hole...
Wildlife programming is an area of strategic focus and growth for PBS: Natural History appeals strongly to PBS’s core audience. And the genre is bringing in new and younger viewers. Ratings Revealed:...
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Facebook Dominates While Newspaper Publishers Pivot to Video: Takeaways for...
Print publishers like The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Guardian are pivoting to video. However, their turn to video fuels Facebook‘s dominance of Social Media while adding costs to the...
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