Influx

A nice visual from the recent Ofcom UK report on the media industry and consumption of media. This visual looks at the typical daily consumption of media and shows it as a series of peaks and valleys over the course of a typical day.Some observations:1. Social media communication happens all day...

Although newspapers have no trouble producing a physical object containing news almost every single day of the year, magazines have a tougher time, some are weekly, but most are monthly and take weeks to produce. As an interesting experiment, some writers, designers and artists got together to see...

Interesting to see The Atlantic write such a flattering article about The Economist and the current state of the newsweekly business. The discussion revolves around the recent changes and re-designs at Time and Newsweek, who are both hoping to drag their publications to new found success in an...

Print and billboard ads now need to be alive and be able communicate with mobile devices. Hopefully this will lead to less copy and more art in the ads we see around us. Stuff that lets the art shine through and seduces viewers into using their mobiles to learn more.Posted by Ed Cotton

"By the turn of the century, anyone who didn't understand that the business model for newspapers was a wasting asset was caught up in nothing other than willful ignorance, so secure in their faith in the permanence of their business that they assumed that those glaciers would politely swerve at the...

Doubleclick did an interesting piece of research last year, they asked consumers what forms of advertising (media) they thought worthwhile and what they would  eliminate. The results are somewhat suprising- despite living in a DVR world, only 7% would prefer to eliminate them, less than 2%...