Does this mean an ad will cost $40 million dollars per spot? So, I was just on Facebook – along with 800+ million of my friends (soon to be be 7.3 billion) – and couldn’t help notice the sidebar banner ad pitch to “Advertise On…
I wanted to call this entry “Y Combinator Is A Bullshit Idea” but the ads on the side wouldn’t have displayed due to the “bullshit” in the title. So, I just read the Christopher Steiner article “The Disruptor In The Valley” at Forbes.com (which is…
Lesson #1: If Google offers you $200 million for a business that has no real focus or vision – TAKE IT. Lesson #2: If the due diligence doesn’t back up a $200 million valuation and someone else offers you $80 million – TAKE IT. Lesson…
OK, it’s September. The power players in the media world have completed their ‘summering’ and can now return to the passion of their lives – ridding the world of boredom and malaise by producing films, TV shows, games and websites. So… it’s great to be…
… Ben Silverman doesn’t. He really thinks he gets it but we know he doesn’t – and I seriously doubt Mob Wives will get him to the Promise Land of creating a next generation media business model. But LEO LAPORTE (founder and chief guru of…
Being a member of the fringe press, I have no idea how many people attended the Herb Allen Sun Valley Retreat last week and I certainly don’t know a complete gender breakdown – but from everything I’ve seen in the press (including from the blogs…
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OK, don’t go all crazy MIPTV Conference people, Ben Silverman didn’t say shit that hasn’t been said before by… everyone producing new media content. Perhaps he says it in a way that make people think it sounds new or perhaps people just want to party…
Seriously, Fortune? Are you fucking kidding me? What, will you sell 15 more magazines with him on the list? Couldn’t come up with that 40th name? What about Jeff Weiner – he’s under 40 and was named CEO of LinkedIn. That’s a pretty big job…
Here is a companion to “All The Facebook’s Men” – the actual scene from the original screenplay of “All The President’s Men” INT. WASHINGTON POST – CONFERENCE ROOM NATIONAL EDITOR: –let me tell what happened when I was having lunch today at the Sans Souci–…