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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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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. The Nine Teams Present. The first team up was Autonomow , the robotic mower farm weeder.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. The beauty of the new landscape is that niches that were previously underserved can be targeted and aggregated effectively, and enthusiasm and notoriety of a brand can be built in a fraction of the time. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. This impact of exceptional returns is diluted some at the fund level due to portfolio effect, so the distribution between the best and worst funds is far narrower than the distribution of startup outcomes.

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube). Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms.

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