TCIBR podcast: The year in tech and entertainment
Mon, 5/01/09 – 19:19 | No Comment

Today we are joined by Scott Kirsner (Inventing the Movies and http://cinematech.blogspot.com) and Woody Benson (partner at Prism VentureWorks). Our discussion covers a number of trends from 2008 and also makes a few predictions for 2009. Subjects covered include CPM vs. engagement, remix culture, media social graphs, length of content, building audiences and new production funding trends.
Related: Scott Kirsner recently finished an extensive series of case studies for ITVS that …

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MOTIVE: Fractured audience: how to find & appeal to it
Thursday, 6 Nov, 2008 – 7:20 | No Comment
MOTIVE: Fractured audience: how to find & appeal to it

Alex Johnson reports - A couple of weeks ago I took part in Power to the Pixel, a three day Digital Distribution & Film Innovation Forum in London. I gave a 15 minute presentation on the following issues: As technology shifts, audiences are evolving at a startling rate. Who are they, where are they, and what are they doing? How does the media producer keep up with and define …

MOTIVE: What’s in a name?
Sunday, 12 Oct, 2008 – 1:08 | 4 Comments
MOTIVE: What’s in a name?

By Alex Johnson - ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.’ wrote the Bard in perhaps one of the earliest statements about branding. But would it? The answer is yes. And no.
‘Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless convention, and that she loves the person who is called “Montague”, not the Montague …

MOTIVE: The Being Series
Tuesday, 16 Sep, 2008 – 22:14 | 2 Comments
MOTIVE: The Being Series

“What is a blog? Why do we blog? We blog to…exist.” stated protagonist Dylan in the opening of Quarterlife. While many would –if uncomfortably- embrace this statement (Technorati indexes 112 million blogs, with 120 thousand new ones appearing each day) just as many would, and do, feel confused by it. Issues of online identity are far and wide, and becoming more pressing.
From SNL skits on MySpace …