http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/ 2007-11-30T12:12:21-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/thanks_to_all_w.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Thanks to all who commented on my request for media predictions for ’08 (discussion continues in the comments section on this post), as well as those who emailed me or allowed me to chat them up for the same. The... Predictions jon_fine 2007-11-30T12:12:21-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/grouchy_old_man.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Inner Old Man #1: I don’t like that the Presidential campaign gets covered as a horse race, but, fine, I'll concede that, at the end of the day, it is a horse race. But it’s kind of a drag that... Financial Coverage jon_fine 2007-11-27T16:47:55-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/will_google_own.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia This week’s column is about what some execs perceive as a competition among the big players in online advertising and online ad networks—yes,: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo-- for quality traffic, and how that competition and its related costs may ultimately... Google jon_fine 2007-11-23T14:08:58-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/seeking_predict.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Suggestions gratefully accepted: What are two or three things that will happen in media and advertising in 2008? In 2007 the weaknesses in newspapers business models finally began crushing their bottom lines, writers struck, Diller chopped up his company, Parsons... Predictions jon_fine 2007-11-21T15:38:17-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/david_brooks_mo_2.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Under the guise of writing about a segmented society, the New York TImes' David Brooks ends up flogging a very, very tired (and distressingly baby boomer-culture-centric) argument about the perils of media choice in today’s column. He’s basically bummed out... David Brooks jon_fine 2007-11-20T16:53:49-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/new_metric_for.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia I was mulling over CD sales of a pal’s band, which have hit around 25,000 in the US. Not shabby, for the kind of band they are. (Broadly: oddball, brainy, indie-identified, ‘difficult’ but sort of danceable, recipients of rightfully rapturous... Music Biz Agonistes jon_fine 2007-11-15T16:01:29-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/kevin_martin_um.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Where I saw some political savvy on the part of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s recent moves, Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici only saw tone-deafedness. To steal a phrase from Mickey Kaus, he may be right. The Wall Street Journal today has an... Kevin Martin jon_fine 2007-11-15T10:25:33-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/kevin_martin_sa.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia When he was running the FCC, Michael Powell did not lack for grand plans to deregulate most of everything. He did not succeed in doing so. But his successor, Kevin Martin, has learned something Powell never did: that compromise helps... Kevin Martin jon_fine 2007-11-13T18:30:10-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/two_quotes_from.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia …specifically the Media and Money Conference. “I think the shareholders are out of their minds. . . . [The deal] was based on a debt package that can’t be replicated. No way can it be put back together.” Steve Rattner,... Google jon_fine 2007-11-08T17:46:03-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/boiling_down_ti.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia A. AOL ad growth underperforming Web ad growth = very bad. B. Every CEO needs a narrative for his company. Dick Parsons’ story was “I am going to calm this place down.” This line won’t work for Bewkes. So what... Jeff Bewkes jon_fine 2007-11-08T17:43:11-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/11/an_in-depth_int.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia (It is Friday, October 26. Jann Wenner is sitting at his desk, glasses pushed up on his head, marking up and showing off an editor’s letter from the third fortieth anniversary issue of Rolling Stone—and, yes, you read that sentence... Jann Wenner jon_fine 2007-11-02T00:23:20-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/10/j-school_prof_s.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia It’s never hard for the luminaries of journalism schools to manufacture a little outrage, and Louis Ureneck, who’s the journalism department chairman at Boston University’s College of Communication, came up with the below, which was emailed around to reporters today.... Louis Ureneck jon_fine 2007-10-31T20:53:43-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/10/web_20_conferen_4.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia In media today, software is trumping storytelling. This week’s column, about the Web 2.0 conference and ideas revolving around that space, allowed me to riff on a bunch of left-brain/right-brain and left-coast/right-coast notions regarding media that I've been thinking about... Web 2.0 jon_fine 2007-10-26T19:27:01-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/10/more_on_manager.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Glenn over at worthwhile music-biz blog Coolfer--a guy from whom I’ve pilfered many a notion--jumps off from a column I wrote about managers being the next record labels and takes a deeper dive, finding worthwhile examples of bands and managers... In Rainbows jon_fine 2007-10-26T19:07:41-05:00 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2007/10/the_piddling_15.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_fineonmedia Is it really that awful for a company as rich as Microsoft to pay $240 million to lock up the ad inventory on Facebook? This is a serious question. Microsoft gets to lock up ad inventory on the hottest platform... Facebook jon_fine 2007-10-24T17:43:18-05:00