Staff Faints, Smelling Salts Passed As Publishers Get Tech Creative - March 23, 2021
Engagement has been savoured by publishers once traffic lost its steam. The term has a certain ring to it, like love. And it is certainly more warm and fuzzy than monetize, even though it’s money that matters. Engagement is not about filling up the comments section or winning cool awards. It’s about customers, once known as readers, letting loose of their money, often and vigorously.

Covering All The Bases Is A Baseball Expression - September 11, 2020
Streaming media has been around long enough to cast off that start-up image. Certainly, some of that remains. The automobile industry has a hundred year lead, banking more than 500 years. But business moves fast, except where it doesn’t, these days. And the business world wants to follow the winners right now.

For Publishers Status Means More Than Yachts - May 20, 2020
Once upon a time, and not that long ago, business models were a dime a dozen, as they say. And every one was fed by the same "we'll sell advertising" theme. Those days have been drifting into foggy memory for a decade, resigned to history by recession of 2020. Only the publishing hard-bitten still argue that, with a few giant exceptions, the news business will remain a for-profit business. Others are moving on.

Happiness As Business Model, Stock Traders Confused - January 27, 2020
For the classically trained, a business model is trained on opportunity. A customer need is filled by a product, price negotiable. The enduring challenge is identifying the need in terms of a deliverable thing or service. More recently, delivery has become the overwhelming need. Happiness is sure to follow.

News Publishers And Digital Tech: The Enduring Disconnect - May 29, 2018
News publishing is a business. It operates on economic principals familiar to every business. There are exceptions and many have jumped out from dark places. But big business doesn’t operate on anomalies, at least not very well and certainly not the news media.

High Risk Diets Affect Reality Acceptance - February 5, 2018
News publishers no longer have ink in their veins. That’s been replaced with a concoction of algorithms and virtual reality heavily salted with fake news. Arteries clogged by the high-fat comfort food of advertising are being cleansed by a regimen of members, followers, supporters and benefactors. The refreshed heart embraces risk, antidote for every evil.

They Really Dig Their Music - January 8, 2018
Music streaming is hot. The music streaming business is a little more difficult. The subscription model is in, ad-serving not so much, at least with investors. Artists and their publishers wave their hands - or lawyers - and rights fees are raised. The biggest of the music streamers have deep pockets and, maybe, time to play. Investors see supply and demand. It’s not like coal mining.