by Jeff Yablon | Dec 27, 2017 | Business Change Highlights, Media
It’s the end of the year. Courtesy of Amazon.com, our end-of-year story is about the end of pirated music. It’s no wonder that a business change of this magnitude would come from Amazon. Dr. Evil’s company just keeps changing the way we buy...
by Jeff Yablon | Nov 3, 2017 | Business Change Highlights, Media
What happens when movie and TV piracy stops? And what if it’s a sign of a problem with media popularity? Well, watch out; people have stopped pirating The Walking Dead. The folks at Axios have pointed out that Game of Thrones piracy is reaching numbers so high...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 10, 2017 | Business Change Highlights, Marketing, Media
The Village Voice is Dead. Long live the Village Voice. No, wait. The first half of that isn’t quite correct—yet—and the second half isn’t likely to happen in a way that matters. Today’s business change topic is the death of the Village Voice and how...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 17, 2017 | Business Change Highlights, Business Process, Media
We have something new to look at today. LIVE! IT’S THE TRUMP WEEKLY ADDRESS! If you blinked, you missed it. The first Trump Weekly Address, announced by Mr. Trump himself less than an hour before it took place, went on for under four minutes. It ran on Facebook...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 23, 2017 | Business Change Highlights, Content, Media
Long before Kellyanne Conway called Sean Spicer’s comments “alternative facts”, the idea of the alternative press was on my mind. Now, speaking as a pure pragmatist, the last few days’ events have got me thinking. Where does the idea of...
by Jeff Yablon | Dec 30, 2016 | Business Change Highlights, Media
Among other, far worse things, 2016 was the year of the media agency failure. The folks at Mashable point this out in a piece that I mostly agree with, here. And then, they show just how big a mess media and marketing have become. Try dealing with the banner taking up...
