The internet is not going to take over TV, says Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner CEO. “TV [is] disintermediating the internet, taking over the internet, not the other way round.” TV Everywhere, not Internet Everywhere? Bewkes makes several important points in his presentation at the FT Digital Conference in London on April 25, 2013. Bewkes claims,…
My ruminations about the business strategy behind Netflix‘s simultaneous release of 13 episodes of House of Cards is on Antenaa: Responses to Media and Culture, click HERE to read it.
YouTube’s expansion of professionally produced video offerings worries the traditional television industry. Will YouTube provide an advertising-supported alternative that encourages more “cord cutting” to pay TV? According to Todd Spangler, blogger at Multichannel.com, the number of views on YouTube’s original channels are low: One million viewers per month? That’s perhaps a halfway decent showing for…
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