Yesterday we started off our preview series with online video.  Today we continue with online advertising. :: Silver Lining: Online Estimates Are Actually Treading Higher Say what you want about downward revisions issued throughout 2008, the fact is, the revisions for online advertising are higher....

To wrap up the year, we will bring you a 2008 review / 2009 preview for each segment of the new media economy.  In today’s Part 1, we look at Video. I’ve now spent three years trying to develop a business around professionally-produced video content, publishing online, and syndicated ac...

Video is now firmly kicking search’s ass… well, not yet in revenues (where it actually matters), but in terms of engagement: According to comScore, in May, in the US, people streamed 12B videos, but conducted just over 10B search queries. eMarketer says online video advertising revenue w...

It’s Independence Day, yet I can’t see much independence beneath the surface. It’s becoming very hard to get any news from the main blogs regarding the Yahoo! deal.  Here’s why: - Tech Crunch is sponsored by MSFT, so that might explain its uber anti-Yahoo stance. - Silicon A...

Nothing represents the changing of the guard as much as how the Big Three Portals have fallen from grace.  Don’t get me wrong: from an operational standpoint, Yahoo! is a fine property, but that company is a bit of a… how do you say, disaster. MSN is there, trecking along, costing MSFT ...

Yesterday the NY Times wrote an article mentioning that no VC-backed firm did an IPO in Q2 2008.  I observed that VCs were basically becoming useless by backing largely useless companies.  I was not alone, the main argument was leveled by VC Paul Kedrosky. A reader of this blog echoed the same thi...

Bob Parker would be proud, I tell ya. Yahoo! just lost another “key exec”, claims Tech Crunch. This time, some M&A guy named Kent Goldman. If you are an M&A executive at Yahoo! now, you get more deal flow than… The point is: no one in their right mind is looking at selling ...

Time looks at Google, Facebook and Apple as likely winners of the Web wars. Google, Facebook and Apple do make me think of the 3 Cs: - Google = commerce - Facebook = community - Apple = content. Interesting that none of the three create any of the underlying C, they just enable it.  That being said...

Today is Sunday. I sure wish I could hop in my car, drive to the ballpark and catch the Montreal Expos. Problem is, it won’t happen. It can’t. That train long left the building. The only way it might happen is if I come across over $500M to buy a franchise and build a new ballpark. Even ...

Well… if nothing else, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will grow a thick skin. Last week, the man he made a billionaire many times over (by agreeing buy Broadcast.com for $5.7B), Mark Cuban, joined the lynch mob that is eager to dance on his grave. This week, the man he made a billionaire many times ove...