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The Business of Production

Banish bad video: think like an audience

Over at Video Insider  challenges people to not make these two fatal mistakes in brand-focues video: Are You STILL Making These Fatal Video Content Mistakes?

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The Business of Production

The Terence and Philip Show Episode 56

Episode 56: Does the TV Industry need a visionary?

Terence and Philip consider whether or not the Television Industry needs a visionary like Apple’s Steve Jobs to innovate into the future. The Television industry will undergo upheaval anyway, with or without a visionary, but in what direction?

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Business & Marketing

Does e-Book Piracy Increase without DRM?

So far the evidence from Tor Books and O’Reilly (publisher of David Pogue’s Missing Manual series) has shown no decrease in sales when their e-Books went DRM free. Conventional wisdom was simply wrong.

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Copyright

A Fact-based approach to the Copyright Debate?

I’ve often posted links to rebuttals of the various MPAA/RIAA/Copyright maximalist organizations because of their loose connection to the facts. It’s very good to see that the various groups are coming together to attempt to find common ground in the copyright debate. Check out the questions in Techdirt’s summary.

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The Business of Production

Goodbye Creative Suite, welcome Creative Cloud subscriptions.

Announced in this morning’s Keynote (or perhaps Techcrunch jumped the gun) Adobe will no longer be selling Creative Suite – software you can buy – and going subscription only with Creative Cloud.

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Item of Interest

Simple Typography for non-Professionals.

Seth Godin has a great simple primer on font choices a.k.a. Typography. Our font choices influence perception. Obvious but something we need to be reminded of.

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Media Consumption The Business of Production

Apparently Piracy Drops Whenever Netflix Launches in New Markets

Shelley Palmer notes that Netflix’s chief content officer has a novel way to battle piracy.

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Distribution The Business of Production

Even more Original Programming Sources

While the money spent on broadcast and cable production is reducing, threatened by tighter budgets imposed by shrinking audiences in the face of more diversity in programming sources, it’s great to see that there are others stepping into the gap. Obviously Netflix, who plan on spending $2 billion a year on original programming, but there are many other original programming sources coming down the pipe.

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Distribution Monetizing

Direct to App Production and Distribution?

Deadline Hollywood has the story Hooked Digital Media Launches; Will Produce Original Filmed Content For Apps where Producer Neal Edelstein (Mulholland Dr., The Ring, The Invisible) and his Hooked Digital Media partners are producing entertainment for direct consumption on small screens via apps.

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Distribution

Can Streaming replace Cable?

Dan Rayburn discusses some research results from Conviva at his blog at StreamingMedia.com and they suggest that there are still problems delivering television content via Internet Streaming. Regardless, Netflix plan to use streaming to replace broadcast television.