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

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet. Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy.

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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. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. Startups to watch in this space are Legolas Media , Krux Digital , and BrightTag , among others. Year of Social Utilities.

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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.

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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. The future of the Internet is video. hours of TV / day.

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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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10 Video Introductions and Media Plugs for Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

According to Cisco , by 2015, one million minutes of video – the equivalent of 674 days – will cross the internet every second (!) Below are a few of the better examples of videos produced by Israeli startups and those that managed to get a plug in traditional media, reaching a huge potential audience. Amazing, no?

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

YoungUpstarts

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. Old Media Models Are Melting Down.

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