Showing posts with label Medium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medium. Show all posts

2017-01-14

TechReview | Apple Going 'Hollywood' With New Content Plan (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Feature •  Technology giant Apple Inc. (apple.com | $AAPL) has reportedly been in talks with veteran Hollywood producers about buying rights to originally scripted television programs. The move could be transformative for Hollywood and help offset slowing sales for Apple:


Apple Going 'Hollywood' With New Content Plan. Video above published by WSJ.com on Jan 13, 2017.

Apple's Plan To Enter Original Content Space | Tech Bet | CNBC.com:

Video above published on Jan 12, 2017: Apple's plans to create its own TV shows and movies in order to compete with rival streaming services. See also:

Other Tech News:

•  Venture capital is going to murder Medium.com | BusinessInsider.com: "... The web, of course, will go on ... Especially for anyone who moved to Medium but hedged their bets by keeping their own domains ... It didn’t have to be this way ... [Ev] surely had enough in the bank from previous exploits. Started slower. Not hired 150 people before there was a path to profitability, let alone sustainability."

•  EU committee recommends rules on robots including mandatory kill switches, insurance, taxes, more--vote to be in February--BBC.com.

•  WikiLeaks' Assange calls US Gov report on Russia hacking 'embarrassing' | CNET.com: "U.S. intelligence report ... a "press release" with a political agenda."
  
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2017-01-07

TechReview | 2017 Will Be The Year Of Amazon $AMZN (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Feature •  This will be the year of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN):

Amazon: The Case For A $1 Trillion Market Cap & Debunking The No Profit Misconception - Amazon.com, Inc. | SeekingAlpha.com: "2018 revenue and operating cash flow are on pace to hit $200B+ and $35B+, respectively, paving the way for a $1T valuation."

Introducing Amazon Go and the world’s most advanced shopping technology:

Amazon Go is a new kind of store featuring the world’s most advanced shopping technology. No lines, no checkout – just grab and go! Learn more at http://amazon.com/go. Video above published Dec 5, 2016, by Amazon.com, Inc.

NYU Stern marketing professor Scott Galloway’s 2017 predictions:
Loser: subscription based businesses--despite the hype only three percent of U.S. shoppers have signed up for a subscription program and fifty-nine percent say they're not interested. The most overhyped acquisition of 2016: Shave Club for which Unilever paid six million dollars per employee. Subscriptions are not the disruption we'd all expected.
Winner: Amazon--the move to open stores [see Amazon Go video above] puts pressure on brick-and-mortar retailers to rethink the checkout experience. This will be the year of Amazon--a third of all batteries and  of all baby wipes sold online are from Amazon's private label. This is the end of the brand era, people now shop by category not by brand, especially with voice search devices such as Alexa, removing price and brand from the equation. Amazon has brought together artificial intelligence, fulfillment, your purchase history, and now it's going to be the first trillion dollar market cap company, offering you click ordering, and even sending you your stuff before you even ask for it. This is the year of Amazon. The pecking order of  in terms of market cap was 1. Apple, 2. Google, 3, Amazon, and 4. Facebook, but as Amazon leapfrogs Siri with Alexa and Google loses traction as consumers spend more time in mobile apps, the new order will be 1. Amazon, 2. Facebook, 3. Google, and 4. Apple, with Amazon becoming the most valuable company in the world.
See also: Apple Doesn’t Hear The Echo | Lefsetz.com: "... you’re gonna control your music via voice, you just don’t know it yet. And the first mover here is Amazon."
Other Tech News:

•  CES 2017: These are the 7 big trends everyone will be talking about | CNET.com: "... the main topic of conversation this year will be the incoming administration of Donald Trump, who takes office later this month [Jan. 20]. That means a huge swath of laws and regulations that directly affect the global tech industry -- everything from trade policy, tariffs, information security, network neutrality rules, tax policies, encryption, financial regulations and immigration, to name just a few -- could well be changing, some radically ..."

•  Layoffs announced at Medium.com: "... it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn’t serve people. In fact, it’s not designed to. The vast majority of articles, videos, and other “content” we all consume on a daily basis is paid for — directly or indirectly — by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals. And it is measured, amplified, and rewarded based on its ability to do that. Period. As a result, we get…well, what we get. And it’s getting worse ..."--Ev Williams, Renewing Medium’s focus | blog.medium.com  (emphasis added).

•  T-Mobile added more than 8.2 million new wireless customers in 2016. T-Mobile's larger competitors, AT&T and Verizon, haven't grown their phone customer base according to T-Mobile CEO John Legere who added that T-Mobile has been responsible for most of the industry's growth in new phone subscribers over the past four years--CNET.com.

•  Information Overload, Chaos Syndrome, Smartphone Addiction: a recent study reported young adult mobile smartphone users were using their phones five hours a day, at 85 separate times. Most interactions were for less than 30 seconds, and the users weren’t fully aware of how addicted they were, thinking they picked up their phones half as much as they actually did, the technology had seized control of around one-third of the young adults’ waking hours--blogs.cfainstitute.org. 

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2016-09-07

Twitter, $TWTR, Snapchat, Advertising & Monetization (videos)

Twitter Could Unlock a Lot of Value, Co-Founder Ev Williams Says:

Evan Williams, Medium's chief executive officer and co-founder of Twitter (twitter.com), comments on Twitter and Jack Dorsey. He speaks during an interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg West." Video published September 1, 2016. See also After a quiet summer, Twitter’s board will take a hard look at what comes next | Recode.net Sep 6, 2016: Talk of a sale continues to rumble — "Twitter is considered to be too bloated still — it had 3,860 employees as of June 30 and paid out $168 million in stock-based compensation last quarter alone, an amount equal to roughly 28 percent of its quarterly revenue. (Facebook’s stock-based compensation was just 12.5 percent of its Q2 revenue, in comparison.)"

 Advertising & Monetization: the key to success?
Twitter $TWTR in 1-year, as of Sep 02, 2016, DOWN 30.55%
Here’s how Snapchat makes money from disappearing videos:

Snapchat (snapchat.com) plans to make somewhere around $300 million in revenue this year, up from a $50 million revenue target last year, while also telling investors that it could be a $500 million to $1 billion business in 2017, a massive jump. Video above published August 17, 2016.

Transcript via YouTube:
0:00 snapchat has over 150 million daily users that's about half the population
0:05 of the united states how to snapchat accompany famous for making messages
0:09 disappear generate any money they do it the same way other Internet companies
0:13 like Google or Facebook or Twitter generate money through advertising if
0:18 you use snapchat you'll see ads in three key places inside the app in the
0:22 discovery channels that is publishing partners produce in snapchat stories
0:26 like the big montage snapchat compiles for major events like the Super Bowl or
0:30 coachella you also soon see ads inserted between the stories that your friends
0:34 are posting as you jump from one friend story to another you may see a word from
0:38 a snapchat advertiser as well but the most creative ads snapchat cells are
0:43 sponsored filters and lenses the face distorting technology that lets users
0:47 transformed into a dog or a zombie or a bumblebee brands can sponsor these
0:51 lenses like Taco Bell did when it turned users faces into tacos and users love
0:56 them
0:57 advertisers due to snapchat is hoping to generate around three hundred million
1:00 dollars in ad revenue this year and is telling investors it could bring in as
1:04 much as 1 billion dollars in 2017 that's a lot of money it would certainly be a
1:09 big jump for snapchat but remember twitter which is under tons of pressure
1:13 from Wall Street to turn things around made more than 2 billion dollars in
1:17 revenue last year facebook made almost 18 billion dollars a measly $MONEY
1:22 billion doesn't impress like they used to
1:24 so what does the future hold for snapchat we don't know the business is
1:28 young and the company needs to show marketers that it's ads actually lead to
1:32 sales because when snapchat's shine wears off and it's no longer the hot new app
1:36 that everyone's talking about ads will be what keeps its business growing

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