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    Markets with Two-Sided Platforms

    By: Catalyst Code on December 18th, 2009

    David Evans’ paper, Markets with Two-Sided Platforms, discusses how these two-sided platform businesses serve distinct groups of customers and need each other in some way. They provide these customers a real or virtual meeting place, and they facilitate the interactions between members of these customer groups. They essentially act as intermediaries between the two groups […]

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    Will the Web Kill Free TV and Should We Care

    By: David Evans on November 15th, 2009

    It costs a bloody fortune to produce a television series like Mad Men. All those cast members, the period costumes, the smart writers. Right now production companies make these efforts profitable by doing deals with networks like A&E that sell advertising spots. Many of us are recording our favorite shows and watching them later, […]

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    Search, Social and Swag

    By: Karen Webster on October 22nd, 2009

    Lots of people have been talking about social sites cannibalizing search. I’ve addressed this in a prior post since it comes up a lot. eMarketer published a report today that has two interesting findings. First, Google, Bing and Yahoo have little to worry about. They still represent nearly all (like 97.8%) of the search traffic […]

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    Will nextnewnetwork Really be the Next New Network?

    By: David Evans on June 23rd, 2009

    Well, depends on who you ask. The New York Times seems to think it has a shot at drawing eyeballs away from traditional television. But, I am not so sure. So, in service to all you readers of the Catalyst Code Blog, I took time out of my busy afternoon to check out nextnewnetwork. […]

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    The Twitter Fad

    By: David Evans on April 20th, 2009

    When I heard that the Moldavian kids had organized a veritable revolution through twittering each other I thought that I should recant my views that twittering would last about as long as the hula hoop. But then I saw that Ashton Kutcher has become king of the twitters. Could Twitter have a better advertisement than […]

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    Media Companies Should Stick to Their Knitting

    By: David Evans on March 24th, 2008

    Media companies are engaging in a bit of co-opetition as they form ad networks for selling advertising across member properties. (See the recent AP article Media Groups Share Content in Ad Deals.)
    Sometimes competitors are getting in bed together because they figure, I guess, that they don’t want to lose the money for selling […]

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    Apple’s Achilles Heel

    By: David Evans on January 18th, 2008

    Steve Jobs has taken a lot of flak since his speech at MacWorld on Tuesday. Of greatest concern is whether Apple’s streak of luck in the digital media space has run its course. The content providers that make its iTunes store valuable and get people to buy those pricey iPods have been bailing in […]

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    Comcast’s Got a Brand New Plan

    By: Karen Webster on January 9th, 2008

    Comcast announced today its ambitious new plan to allow on demand access to a “nearly limitless” supply of movies and TV shows via both television and the internet. Dubbed Project Infinity, the goal is to bolster Comcast’s competitive position with satellite and telcos - and it hopes its stock price in the process - […]

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    Internet Video on the Tube

    By: David Evans on December 11th, 2007

    What’s it going to take to get people to watch Internet video on their televisions?
    Today’s Wall St. Journal has an interesting article that talks about the problem and offers some suggestions based on talking to executives in the business. These range from reducing the number of boxes, keeping it simple, and making the Internet […]

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    Mexican Standoff

    By: David Evans on August 20th, 2007

    Getting everyone on board is one of the biggest problems faced by the catalysts that are trying to shake up and create new industries. Randall Stross’s article in Sunday’s New York Time—Pass the Popcorn. But Where’s the Movie.—highlights the problem faced by video-on-demand. The cable television guys needed to get content owners—the studios that make […]

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