Ads on mobile news sites can be ugly and annoying. Just look at these examples. With iOS 9 and a recent enough iPhone you can install ad blockers. I expect that a similar solution is available for Android. I have no idea about Windows phone users. However, many sites now detect ad blockers and prevent […]
Category: Content Distribution
07
Jun 2014
Why services like Gaana will lose to Apple
Sushil
Content Distribution, Internet, Paid Content, User Experience
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Gaana, an Internet music broadcasting service based in India, recently added videos and lyrics to songs available from the service. Shazam, a music identification service, also integrates videos and lyrics for songs that people identify, or “tag”, with the app. The two services have implemented these features in different ways, and one of them is […]
04
Sep 2012
It happened! (For real, this time)
Sushil
Content Distribution, India, Internet, Paid Content
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Back in May there was a lot of talk about the what and the why of the rise of mobile versus desktop Web usage in India. But then people seemed to stop paying attention. Well, it went from a flirtation then to full-on penetration now, as the chart below shows. Does this mean desktop is f**ked, or […]
29
Jun 2012
Kris, Kim and, of course, Kanye
There are so many things to wonder about in this story…What is the bizarre power that the mother K has over daughter K(im)? Is this some kind of electra complex playing out? What, even in all innocence, is a pussy bow? What meaning should we attach to the fact that Kanye is behind the scene?
Sushil
Content Distribution
No Comments on Maybe Walmart should produce original programming as well
News today that Amazon is looking to enter the original programming (OP) game. I get why Netflix and Hulu (and YouTube and Yahoo and AOL, know of any more?) are taking these steps–because the established content producers are not making their content available for streaming (see here, here and here)–but I’m not at all convince […]
07
Feb 2012
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Reed Hastings
Back over the summer and fall amidst the furore over Netflix’s attempt to split itself up, I was taken aback by the vehemence with which Internet commenters put down Hastings. A few months later in December Megan McCardle wrote an article in The Atlantic that chimed nicely my thoughts: if Hastings is such a fool how did […]