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Is Subscription Model of the Future Bundled Media?
At a social TV conference I chaired earlier this year, a speaker from Screen Digest said, “Subscriptions don’t work.” I asked other speakers if they thought this was a viable business model for any area of online video, or even digital media as a whole. Most agreed there was a lack of consumer appetite to [...]







Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...


Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...