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Last night, actor Kevin Spacey delivered the James McTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. It was a rallying cry for television’s executives to embrace creative risk. Not surprisingly, much of what Spacey’s lecture can be applied to us in the...
Most of our live art experiences; concerts, theater, comedy shows, museums, are usually pretty passive in their nature and form; we tend to lean back and take in the experience, rather than seeking it out, exploring and interacting. Punchdrunk is a UK performance group, who for the past couple of...
Louis CK has been undergoing a very personal experiment. It started last winter with the release of his standup show, “Live at the Beacon”, that he personally directed, produced, and distributed directly to his fans. In his own words, he describes his experiment, “People of Earth (minus...
We are starting to see new media emerge from the flickers and shadows of old media designed to bring entirely new experiences to users. Music has been defined by the listening to the track, the album, or the live performance, but when MTV arrived in the 1980s, the music video became the format of...
The announcement that Amazon is opening a Digital Media Center in London is further evidence that the company is keen to move deeper into the media content space. The center is going to focus on the development of user focused applications to stream content. This development will be drawing upon...
According to Matthew Ingram, writing in GigaOm, Instagram, is coming under fire from critics for taking photography away from the professionals and putting it into the hands of untalented amateurs. The critics appear to be slamming the users of the service for sharing the banal elements of their...
For months everyone has been talking about whether or not social has real power- the issue has been discussed and debated back and forth. It’s taken someone in the world of gaming to put social to the test by coming up with an ingenious idea to test its power. Peter Molyneux is one of the...
Henry Blodgett in Business Insider this weekend made an aggressive argument for the demise of the television business as we know it and used a mix of personal experience and data to make his case. The fundamentals that he raised are clear to most people - The demise of...
This is a great example of how you can engage an audience with content and conversation. It’s back from 2010, the show’s Twitter leads imagined something that wasn’t even the show, one of the characters- attending The Beatles concerts at Shea Stadium. The film below shows how the...
Q : Is it an ad, a short-film, a car/skateboard movie? A: It’s none of them and all of them. Q: Is it for Ford, Monster or DC Shoes? A: It’s for all of them Q: Where’s the script? A: It has no script, no plot - it doesn’t conform to anything we would know as a...
Diageo is one of the smartest companies around when it comes to brands and branding; one of the few with a Brand University that schools all employees on the importance of building brands with real value. It’s a company that has historically used advertising as a powerful lever to drive sales...
A report in Mashable yesterday stated that social-gaming leader Zynga had made 14 acquisitions in the past 12 months. That kind of pace is quite extraordinary from what many consider to be a relatively small company- albeit with a potential market cap of $10 billion. It makes you think: 1. Category...
For a generation of kids who have never been to a record store, Jack White has the solution. Posted by Ed Cotton
Amazing graphic from Bain Consulting on the rapid demise of the music industry. It reacted far too late digital and allowed a generation to grow up with the concept of free music. Posted by Ed Cotton
An interesting quote from Brad Gray, the CEO of Paramount about his involvement with the success of the Coen Brothers' movie, True Grit. While artists need to get their time to get their "art" just right, the market waits for no one and making the Christmas window, Gray rightly believed was vital...