Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

The State of Streaming Video in 2012

Posted by in Digital Advertising, Findings, Marketing on December 21st, 2011

The internet is an ever evolving constantly growing creature that is just beginning to take over every aspect of communications and entertainment. Streaming video will soon replace traditional cable as the number one source for home entertainment. It’s already starting with things like X-Box and PlayStation carrying NFL and ESPN networks on streaming devices. In the next few years major networks and stations like HBO will follow (they’ve already gotten the ball rolling with partnerships on Hulu and services like HBO Go which allows subscribers to use HBO similar to a paid I-pad app.) This represents a fundamental shift in the way you spend your advertising dollars and can open the door for many small business to advertise in ways they never thought possible. At least it should if some of the old guards allow for change that could cost them in the short term but pay off huge just a few years down the road.

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Internet Streaming: The Nail in the Coffin for Cable?

Posted by in Business, Featured, Friends, Marketing on October 7th, 2010

Many young people are choosing to forgo paying for television in favor of just using the internet to get their entertainment.

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A Very YouTubed Potter: Interview with actor Brian Holden

Posted by in Friends, Inspiration, Interview, Reviews on December 4th, 2009

As a recent University of Michigan alumnus, I’ve actually always considered Ann Arbor a kind of Hogwarts away from home – especially come winter when white snow and shimmering icicles dangle off English Gothic buildings in combination with bountiful pitchers of butterbeer – or Long Island Iced Tea – turn the campus into a magical winter wonderland. And although by spring the snow is melted, a clever and ambitious bunch of U of M students/alumni brought that Hogwarts feeling back to campus last April with their original production of A Very Potter Musical which was produced for one fleeting weekend…

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