I spoke at the Future TV Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark this week. It was great to get a Northern European/Scandinavian viewpoint on the evolution of our industry and I particularly enjoyed the conversations during the break. However, one conversation absolutely floored me. A gentleman from Norway...

This week, Google announced it would be including 3,000 new movie titles for streaming rental through YouTube. Congratulations, but now comes the hard part: differentiating itself from the growing number of similar services including iTunes, CinemaNow, VUDU, Amazon-on-Demand, and even Facebook. Jumping...

September 30, 2008 MySpace says it wants to make finding and listening to music “as easy as piracy,” a nifty objective because it may help curb illegal P2P sharing among a generation that has grown up in a post-Napster world where it’s easier to rip music than it is to pay for it. That...

January 15, 2008 At the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple today announced two updates to its digital video strategy. First, iTunes will now feature movie rentals as opposed to just download-to-own videos. More

The MTV/Rhapsody Deal Confirms It: The iPod is Doomed Brion Feinberg, Ph.D., Consulting Analyst September 12, 2007 Last month, MTV and Real Networks announced a new music service partnership, Rhapsody America. By combining MTV's substantial media presence with Real's Rhapsody digital music service...