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Jan McBarron Shares Her Guide for Effectively Building Your Social Media Brand in the Digital Age

The Startup Magazine

Any solid business plan requires a social media strategy. Social media has pushed into every area of our lives, governing how we read the news, communicate with our families and friends and how we express ourselves to the world. Effectively building your social media brand can be broken down into concrete steps. Post Regularly.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. When I tell audiences that Americans consume 6 hours of video per day people seldom believe me (thus I publish the data). We like sight, sound & motion.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. Innovations in media transaction platforms along with a better understanding of target audience have brought an amazing level of scale and efficiency in display advertising market. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

There were exceptions from time to time — if a WSJ story was shared on social media, nonsubscribers could often read it — but the paywall has stood solidly, and it has helped the publication accumulate nearly 3 million combined paid subscribers for its print and online content. Old Media Models Are Melting Down. A lot of eyeballs.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular.