I am glad to see Webcast Metrics is back with publishing stats again. They just released their March 2008 Webcast Metrics Ratings.
As you can see from the snapshot below, our very own Digitally Imported network made it quite high as usual. Being somewhere between ClearChannel and CBS Radio is not a bad place to be for [...]
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April 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pm by Ari Shohat
Made It to Top 3 on Webcast Metrics March ‘08 Report
| Business, Streaming, Web | 3 Comments |
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 am by Ari Shohat
Interesting Times Huh?
| Business, Economy, Life Happens | 1 Comment |
Consider this:
The price of oil jumped from $117 to $120 within the last 24 hours or so.
Home values around San Francisco Bay area have dropped by over 10% in the last year. In other parts of the country even much much more than that.
Japan ran out of butter, among other things coming up.
Sam’s Club, the [...]
Noticed RAIN quoting this bit today, talk about being quite obvious:
Those who get satellite radio subscriptions as a promotion
with a car lease or purchase are far less likely to
remain subscribers than those who seek out satellite
radio…
April 14th, 2008 at 12:33 pm by Ari Shohat
China: Rise of The Dragon
| Business, Economy, Life Happens | 1 Comment |
The Daily Mail has a great recap of some points in a piece titled Why China is the REAL master of the universe.
Take off those pink tainted sunglasses and breathe that info in. Some excerpts:
The truth is that we are masters of the world no more.
The global power shift from the West to the [...]
April 10th, 2008 at 11:19 am by Ari Shohat
Impressions After My ‘Elite Retreat’ Trip
| Business, Life Happens, P2A, Web | 1 Comment |
It has been an incredibly busy few weeks. Some of you recall that last week I went to Elite Retreat.
I don’t have that many impressions about the Elite Retreat itself. It means different things to different people.
I do however have impressions about my time there, the experience of my trip, and the kind of things [...]
March 28th, 2008 at 1:55 pm by Ari Shohat
Continuing Blows to Old Media
| Business, Economy, Web | 1 Comment |
The newspaper industry has experienced the worst drop in advertising revenue in more than 50 years. According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 billion compared to 2006 — the most severe percent decline since the association started measuring advertising expenditures in [...]
March 26th, 2008 at 9:59 am by Ari Shohat
Some Notes on Streaming Bandwidth Pricing
| Business, Streaming, Technology, Web | 0 Comments |
I am directing this post to my streaming media colleagues.
As some of you may know, one of my other side businesses is SteadyHost.com - we do racked servers and sell a great mix of bandwidth at reasonable prices.
Let me tell you something you probably already know - there are retail prices that companies list on [...]
March 25th, 2008 at 9:12 am by Ari Shohat
New Ideas vs Immediate Approval
| Business, P2A, Technology | 0 Comments |
The following quote via PMARCA blog:
Finally, some entrepreneurs have emotional resistance to pursuing a strategy that does not meet with immediate approval from press, analysts, and other entrepreneurs.
This is worth watching carefully — if everyone agrees right up front that whatever you are doing makes total sense, it probably isn’t a new and radical [...]
