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Viacom vs YouTube…kicked off by the Beeb deal?
Was the BBC deal with YouTube the straw that broke the camel’s back? Probably not, but if more corporations had followed the Beeb down the ad-share route it would have started to chip away at Viacom‘s position. If you read the full text of Viacom’s suit here, you can see the exact nature of their…
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BBC vs Authority
In the Independent, in a piece that is part-op-ed, part reportage, Tim Luckhurst questions the BBC‘s cautious reaction to its cash-for-honours story. A couple of interesting questions arise: Defending the corporation on Radio 4’s Today programme last week, the deputy director-general, Mark Byford, said any notion the BBC was “sitting back” was “absolutely untrue.” It…
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Online news and advertising…
Depressing news (not that we didn’t know it) from our friends in the VC business: To get to $50m in revenue you would need 50 billion pageviews in a year, or just over 4 billion per month. The BBC gets a billion pageviews a month. On the figures above, that would bring in about $12.5m…
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Question Time: Mentorn wins furniture contract
People often ask me – What do I have to do to win a current affairs commission? My answer is always simple and direct: build portable seating. The offer to construct portable seating was also understood to have impressed BBC executives considering bids from Mentorn and three other shortlisted independent production companies. [MG] Now if…