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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. But distribution is now unlimited. Not so fast.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Distribution costs have, too. This has been a very welcome addition.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Display Advertising Enters a Golden Era. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. MCA-AMS covers the challenge of attributing accurate impact of our marketing and advertising efforts across multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile, TV).

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Using affiliate marketing and the Internet to boost your company’s revenue

The Next Web

Word of mouth advertising has a higher conversion rate than your own advertising, because a third party doesn’t seem to profit from selling the product or service to you. For an advertiser, marketing is really expensive, so why shouldn’t you let other people do marketing for you for free?

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