When O’Donnell laudably experimented with to target the audience’s interest onand hopefully final, Charlie Sheen trainwreck interview, courtesy of the tragic undertow that threatens to pull Sheen beneath for very good, I used to be overtaken, not from the pulling around the thread, as well as the voracious audience he serves. It did not make me unfortunate, it created me angry.
On the subject of celebrities, we can be considered a heartless region, basking within their misfortunes like nude sunbathers at Schadenfreude Seashore. The impulse is understandable, to some diploma. It could possibly be grating to pay attention to complaints from consumers who like privileges that many of us can not even envision. For those who can’t muster up some compassion for Charlie Sheen, who makes more revenue to get a day’s function than many of us will make in a decade’s time, I guess I can not blame you.
With the fast pace of activities on the web and then the information and facts revolution sparked from the Web, it’s incredibly simple and easy for the technology trade to consider it’s extraordinary: always breaking new ground and accomplishing factors that no one has actually accomplished earlier than.
But you'll find other sorts of small business which have by now undergone some of the exact same radical shifts, and have just as great a stake while in the potential.
Get healthcare, as an illustration.
We usually believe of it as being a immense, lumbering beast, but in truth, medicine has undergone a series of revolutions during the past 200 many years that happen to be a minimum of equal to people we see in know-how and material.
Less understandable, but nevertheless within the norms of human nature, is the impulse to rubberneck, to slow down and look at the carnage of Charlie spectacle of Sheen’s unraveling, but of the blithe interviewer Sheen’s existence as we pass it within the most suitable lane of our daily lives. To get sincere, it might be difficult for people to discern the distinction involving a run-of-the-mill attention whore, and an honest-to-goodness, circling the drain tragedy-to-be. On its personal merits, a quote like “I Am On a Drug. It’s Labeled as Charlie Sheen” is sheer genius, and we cannot all be anticipated to get the complete measure of someone’s daily life any time we listen to one thing amusing.
Swiftly ahead to 2011 and I'm seeking to check out means that of currently being a bit more business-like about my hobbies (generally new music). Through the finish of January I had manned up and started to promote my weblogs. I had designed several completely different weblogs, which have been contributed to by mates and colleagues. I promoted these pursuits via Facebook and Twitter.
2nd: the small abomination that the Gang of Five around the Supream Court gave us a 12 months or so back (Citizens Inebriated) literally is made up of a tad bouncing betty of its own that could highly effectively go off inside the faces of Govs Wanker, Sacitch, Krysty, and J.O. Daniels. Considering the fact that this ruling prolonged the principle of “personhood” to the two companies and unions, to test to deny them any perfect to run inside the legal framework that they had been organized below deprives these “persons” with the freedoms of speech, association and motion. Which implies (the moment once more, quoting law college trained family) that possibly the courts ought to uphold these rights for that unions (as person “persons” as guaranteed through the Federal (and most state) constitutions, or they have to declare that these attempts at stripping or limiting union rights should apply to leading businesses, also.
Is There a Traffic Bubble, Or Does The New York Times Have an Inefficient Capital Structure?
As I hope my family can attest, I made a great point over dinner a couple of weeks ago about how the New York Times is clearly undervalued vis-a-vis various internet stocks. The NYT’s not an “internet company” but it does run one of the world’s most popular websites. Then I forgot all about it. But via Ezra Klein, I have a chance to revisit the point via Frédéric Filloux contention that we’re experiencing a web traffic bubble:
About 35% of the HuffPo’s users come form Google. They land on cleverly optimized content: stories borrowed from other (and consenting) medias that mostly generate blogging and comments. This is the machine that drove 28m unique visitors in January, which makes the HuffPo close to the New York Times/Herald Tribune audience of 30m UV. With one key difference: each viewer of the NYT websites yields an ARPU of $11, ten times more than the Arianna thing. Based on the HuffPo’s valuation, the NYT Digital would be worth billions. That’s a consolation.
You can think of some rational reasons for Huffington Post to get a premium over the NYT, related to HuffPo’s more favorable labor cost structure. You can also assume they’re getting a certain AOL desperation premium.
But is the basic thesis that the NYT should be worth a ton of money really so absurd? It’s an iconic global brand whose main competition as an iconic serious English-language global media brand is owned by the UK government. The New York Times Company currently has a market capitalization of about $1.5 billion and if their P/E ratio were at the S&P 500 average, it would in fact be worth “billions” right now. So why isn’t it? If I’m so smart why don’t the markets agree? Well, it’s a family controlled company with a two-tier stock structure. There’s got to be some reason most firms aren’t organized this way, and presumably the reason is that you pay a penalty in terms of the price of your equity. That’s a price the Sulzberger family has historically been willing to pay in order to preserve the family’s control over the iconic brand in question—they’ve viewed staying involved and maintaining their vision of the paper’s mission as important enough to weigh against some more narrowly commercial considerations. That seems like a sensible view to me, but it’s also sensible for investors to penalize them for it.
Recall that when Carlos Slim was given the opportunity to make an unorthodox investment in the NYT he wound up making a bunch of money.
Confirming many recent reports, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) finally announced it wants to take a 30 percent cut of in-app content subscriptions. It boils down to this…
—Content owners can bring to their apps existing consumers who subscribe on their websites.
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—But, for new subs taken out in apps, iTunes Store payments must be used.
Right now, many publishers let readers take out new subscriptions inside their apps using their own billing mechanisms. Apple’s announcement does not explicitly state that this will be disallowed, but that’s the clear implication.
If publishers baulk at coughing to Apple 30 percent of app-generated subscription income, the net result could become a more fragmented landscape for consumers - either publishers could promote their own billing mechanism especially hard, meaning billing does not occur on the same device on which content is read, or publishers could quit iTunes Store and iOS devices altogether.
The move has been a tactic waiting to happen - Apple, ever the greedy gobbler of consumer spend, is making massive money from apps, but now new kinds of apps can be downloaded for free, with big business transacting inside as subscriptions.
Apple’s announcement below:
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CUPERTINO, California—February 15, 2011—Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service that Apple recently launched with News Corp.’s “The Daily” app.
Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store billing system that has been used to buy billions of apps and In-App Purchases. Publishers set the price and length of subscription (weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-yearly or yearly). Then with one-click, customers pick the length of subscription and are automatically charged based on their chosen length of commitment (weekly, monthly, etc.). Customers can review and manage all of their subscriptions from their personal account page, including canceling the automatic renewal of a subscription. Apple processes all payments, keeping the same 30 percent share that it does today for other In-App Purchases.
“Our philosophy is simple—when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app, so that customers can easily subscribe with one-click right in the app. We believe that this innovative subscription service will provide publishers with a brand new opportunity to expand digital access to their content onto the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone, delighting both new and existing subscribers.”
Publishers who use Apple’s subscription service in their app can also leverage other methods for acquiring digital subscribers outside of the app. For example, publishers can sell digital subscriptions on their web sites, or can choose to provide free access to existing subscribers. Since Apple is not involved in these transactions, there is no revenue sharing or exchange of customer information with Apple. Publishers must provide their own authentication process inside the app for subscribers that have signed up outside of the app. However, Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app. In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app.
Protecting customer privacy is a key feature of all App Store transactions. Customers purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe. The use of such information will be governed by the publisher’s privacy policy rather than Apple’s. Publishers may seek additional information from App Store customers provided those customers are given a clear choice, and are informed that any additional information will be handled under the publisher’s privacy policy rather than Apple’s.
We'll be addressing some of these themes during our next conference, paidContent 2011, March 3 in New York City. You can find out more about the agenda and register here.
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