By Ben Homer, October 31st, 2008
In a week that saw more companies shedding jobs and packing it in for the recession, there was also a lot of positive including news of digital syndication deals designed to push more content to more screens.
I may be a contrarian, but I’m looking forward to the “Internet Winter.” The constriction of available capital should [...]
By Ben Homer, October 29th, 2008
On Digital Content:
Nov 11 we’ll launch a new web series called Mayne Street, we have 15 episodes done in various stages of editing, we’ll debut it after Monday Night football, my expectation is it can generate millions of viewers. It’s between 2-3 minutes. We have 15 second clips, we have a website we’ll put up. [...]
By Ben Homer, October 29th, 2008
Deals: Venture Money and M&A Activity in the Sports Media Sector
Jim Bankoff; Chairman. SB Nation
Chris Russo; Fantasy Sports Ventures
Jeff Price; President Sports Illustrated Digital
Josh Swartz; COO, Wasserman Media Group
On Sports Deals in the Current Economy:
Jim Bankoff:
On a macro level everyone is suffering, you can’t pretend otherwise. Having said that…small companies, good companies will do well, [...]
By Ben Homer, October 29th, 2008
On Overall Content Strategy:
I think all the leagues are doing a good job optimizing their content. We do 15 games a day, we play all the time our content is fundamentally different than all other games. Baseball, our job is to promote the game all day whereever it is. Three TV parntners ESPN Turner and [...]
By Ben Homer, October 28th, 2008
As traditional business models for publishers are disrupted by new media, where should media turn?
“We’ve seen from the year 2000 where print represented 48% of member revenue on average that has dropped to 38%” said Gordon Hughes, President & CEO of American Business Media. “And what we’ve seen is tremendous growth in tradeshows and [...]
