new digital media business models
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Prof Guy Berger explores the new business models emerging from new mediaTRANSCRIPT
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New digital business models
Guy Berger, Highway Africa conference 9 September 2008
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Take a test… who are:
• Jimmy Wales? Tip: Volunteers create free content.• Mark Zuckerberg? Tip: Friends make him money.• Craig Newmark? Tip:Free service killing a class!• Larry Page and Sergey Brin? Tip: Sidewinders.• Stafford Masie? He’s in this country!
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On the agenda
1. First world trends – a yawning international digital divide: but no time to feel sleepy!
2. Changing industry, audiences in First World.3. Media’s business model is breaking up.4. New architecture of Information Society.5. Mobile – Africa’s answer?
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1.First World Trends
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At a conference in May in LV:
• Selling Online Using Market-Specific Research• E-Commerce Revenue Solutions• Great Interactive Ideas• Social Networking - How to Build it, Grow it and Bring in
the Bucks• Serving Readers & Advertisers thru Search Marketing• Managing Citizen Commentary and Contributions• 5 Things You Should Do in 2008 to Immediately Improve
Your Web Site
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Who convened it?
SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS OF
AMERICA
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So why that online focus?
Report: State of the News Media 2008:• Newspapers in USA ended 2007 with 8.4% less
circulation daily, 11.4% less Sunday than 2001. • Plus, print newspaper ad revenues
experienced their worst drop in more than 50 years.
• Network news programs averaged 23.1 million viewers a night, a drop of 5%, on 2006.
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• Here’s one response to the pressure:
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During the past 7 months, 4,500 posts have been cut at U.S. papers: http://snurl.com/3047y\
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For some: a shift in resources…
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How they got there…
• Web was first seen by newspapers as a Stranger.
• Then as a Source…• Subsequently as Subversive (a threat).• Now it is seen as a Strategic ally…• Could it become a Saviour?• And what about the mobile web?
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2.Existing business
model is breaking up.
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Where it all began:
• Media content untied from physical formats. = it’s all data – with scores of possible
platforms to play out on.• And: EXPLODING of traditional horizontal
integration of processes formerly under the control of one media house.
IT WAS: {Info gathering – editing – packaging – dissemination – loyal audience}.
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1. Info gathering: DISTRIBUTEDUGC; “import” via embedded links
2. Editing: DISTRIBUTEDGlobal outsourcing, User editing and ranking
3. Packaging: DISTRIBUTEDMulti-purposed platforms, 3rd party aggregators
4. Distribution: DISTRIBUTEDRSS, others’ platforms, get users to circulate
5. Consumption: DISTRIBUTEDLinks, Search engine based; Recommendation
Unbundled, Disarticulated, Dispersed
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Dissolution of BUSINESS MODEL!
• As audiences shift, ad revenue doesn’t parallel.
“The crisis in journalism may not strictly be loss of audience. It may, more fundamentally, be the decoupling of news and advertising.”
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Why?
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4. New architecture of Information Society.
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brought to you by
Open Source +
Internetisation +
Mediatisation
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Eyeballs and economics• Content devalued by supply of online content
including user-generated content, a bunch of which includes content created by people who don't care if they get paid for its creation.
• = Information is not a scarce commodity; … what is scarce is the human attention – especially on making sense of it.
• SOLUTION: social network recommendations;• +: MORE info (tags, and geo-data) = workflow!
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5.Salvation of journalism?
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Our future… mobiles
A media(?) device that’s growing & impacting on: • Habits: DVB-H & 2010 will drive conversion of
cellphones from interpersonal comms to an interactive mass media device.
• New opportunities: whole new market for location-based journalism services.
• Business model: mix of pay-in-advance, rentals, data charges, ads, free, UGC.
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Get planning
• “There is a very big disconnection between optimistic thinking about the future newsroom and the preparation, training and resources that editorial organisations seem to be giving to it.” George Brock (WAN)
No time to be digitally dozy!