Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On the night of May 1, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava Church in Manhattan caught fire — and Celeste Katz, a reporter based in New York, was on it. She went straight to the scene and started recording footage live, for Facebook. This would have all made perfect sense if Katz was a metro reporter…
Seven months ago, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank vowed that if Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, he’d eat one of his columns. Watch him keep his promise. (The Washington Post) The tweets and emails started immediately after Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday night: “You’ve got a promise to keep, bub.” Dana Milbank writes about…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Amazon unveiled its own plans to compete in the user-generated video market with the launch of a new service called Amazon Video Direct in a surprise announcement this morning. This service, explains the company, allows creators to upload their own videos to Amazon’s Prime Video and generate royalties based on the hours streamed. Creators…
Illustration: Jim Cooke We are, right now, in the midst of a digital media upheaval. What was previously conventional wisdom—that a media company with hopes of turning a profit needs, above all, to achieve scale—is being proven false. The new conventional wisdom is that video will be digital media’s savior, but it is only a…
I’m not a traditionalist. But let’s face it — digital didn’t revolutionize ads the way we all expected. At the onset of the digital age, industry thinking was that banners would create a totally transactional marketplace in which consumers would click on an ad and watch a brand video, and even shop for products. Advertising…
Fusion is no longer a fusion. Univision announced on Thursday that it had purchased Disney’s piece of Fusion, a company founded as a joint venture in October 2013 with the vision of making a media organization that could capture the attention of a growing young latino audience. As part of the deal, Univision is reorganizing some…
By Analisa Tamayo Keef, Product Manager, and Lior Ben-Kereth, Engineering Manager Video has become an important part of the Facebook experience for people around the world, due in large part to the amazing creativity we’re seeing from all kinds of video publishers. To provide the best experience for everyone who watches, creates and shares videos…
Video is sexy. Video is lucrative. Video works on both the big screen and the smallest mobile screen. Video is also very hard to do, extremely hard to scale and highly unlikely to be much of a lifeline for VC-addled publishers desperate for growth areas. Mashable, which laid off 30 staffers last week, is the…
Facebook wants big media companies like BuzzFeed and the New York Times to use its new livestreaming video service. So it’s paying them to do it. In recent weeks Facebook has been pushing influential media properties and celebrities to use its Facebook Live product, which makes it easy to stream live video from your phone….
Horrific attacks like the one that took place in Brussels on Tuesday morning tend to bring out the worst in our elite media. The coverage usually combines the blind panic and speculation that accompany any major breaking news story with an unrelenting stoking of our most vengeful, authoritarian impulses. Tuesday’s news channels were filled with…