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Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel

YoungUpstarts

How can they determine whether their products are being sold at the right price across all channels? When brands list their products on eCommerce sites, they hand over an element of control, and it then becomes difficult for them to track inefficiencies in this channel. How can brand analytics help?

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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. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets. Not so fast.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

Maybe they will get there, but I think that the experiential nature of the category — both in terms of the actual products and the brand experience — mean that this will play out very differently from other categories like media or consumer electronics. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying.

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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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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no it was built to arm those spending money in channels in order not to be at a disadvantage. ==> You can join the Trust waitlist here. no surprise?—?that’s

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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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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.