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 | Dec 2, 2016 | Business Change Highlights, Media
Media Piracy is big business. SERIOUSLY big business. Even today, with video stores all but gone and many people having moved past DVD players to streaming, you’ll find guys setting up on blankets covered in DVDs in populated urban areas. Look at all those cheap...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 21, 2014 | Business Process, Influency, Media
I’ve made no secret of my feelings about the manner in which most media businesses conduct “business as usual”. As business changes and we all learn new ways of doing business, I find myself more and more concerned with the matter. This was one...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 22, 2013 | Influency
Here’s a big problem. Google Now is getting smarter. That isn’t a bad thing, of course; Google’s better-than-Siri search helper can be incredibly useful, and while I find its insistence on giving me directions to every place I so much as ask a...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 12, 2013 | Business Process, Content, Influency, Media
Go ahead, pirate Game of Thrones. Seriously, I mean it. The CEO of Time Warner just went on the record as believing that the HBO series being downloaded and redistributed ad infinitum, even by people who haven’t paid for the privilege is ‘better than [it]...
