In the last week I’ve been hooked on a fantastic new book – Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. Demonstrating the impact technology is having on change (and how technology-driven change can only continue to increase) the book has really...
Following an earlier blog post Hollywood Disruption, this week came the news an out of court settlement had been reached between a group of media heavyweights (Sky, Lightbox, Mediaworks, and TVNZ) and the ISPs who had been offering their customers global mode....
A frequent challenge for clients in growing a digital business is identifying their ideal commercial model. In the last month I’ve worked on this question with a couple of clients – both of them wanted to learn more about “freemium”. The rise in freemium has been...
Earlier this week the NFL announced it had inked a global streaming deal with Yahoo!. When the Buffalo Bills and the Jacksonville Jaguars play in London later this year, the game will be streamed globally for free by Yahoo!. The price tag is seemingly a steal at...
Publishers have a love/hate relationship with large digital platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook. While publishers love that these platforms provide audience and traffic, they also hate that the platforms reap financial rewards against content they haven’t...
Last week I wrote about using the Three Horizon model and one of the key traits of a leader is to look forward and work back. The future is uncertain so how do you do this? I have referenced this book a few times How Google Works. The approach Google takes is to look...
