Ben Israel on all things conversational
YouTube's head of news and politics, Steve Grove, says: "People around the world are taking up cameras and covering news in ways big and small - from documenting global events, to filming local town halls in neighborhoods. YouTube Direct empowers news and media organisations to easily connect with these citizen reporters, and use the power of our platform to cover the news better than ever before." "YouTube Direct is like a loop between a news website and YouTube. It wraps up YouTube's upload site in a box and places...
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Original link via Steve Rubel
Original post: http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/the-death-of-the-newspaper
There's a lot of focus on mobile phones and the growing trend of mobility here. The video says that mobile phones will be the primary connection to the internet by 2010. Not surprising, seeing the rise of low bandwidth collaborative tools like twitter. Other points that have jumped out for me: Newspaper circulation is down 7 million (I'm assuming in the U.S. alone) over the last 25 years. But in the last 5 years, unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million I'm guessing advertising spend has not moved...
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