Media Business & Future of Journalism (JEM499)

It's been a while, but there's been a flock of articles recently about the present and future of the newspaper business in the UK that deserves a post. A ZenithOptimedia forecast predicts that...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/09/uk-newspaper-news.html

While discussing their Q1 2015 earnings report, Warner Music's CEO noted that streaming revenues passed digital downloads.  If you combine streaming with other rights/licensing, it suggests th...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/05/milestone-for-music-giant-streaming.html

Finals are over, and there have been several rounds of industry research results to post. From the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a survey of online video viewers. An earlier study suggested m...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-survey-of-research-results-evolution.html

Pew has just released its State of the News Media 2015 report, and I'll be sharing some results and comments. 2014 saw local TV station revenues increase (mostly from huge rise in political ad...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/04/pew-state-of-local-tv-news.html

From Nielsen

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/04/whats-your-plan-for-sportsday-may-2.html

A new survey from Nielsen suggests that ebooks continue to make gains in book markets.  The bad news is that some of that seems to be coming from online sales. The digital formats (ebooks, au...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/e-books-report.html

From Google Insights, How Digital Drives Viewers to New Shows ,

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/utsmw15-infographic-how-digital-social.html

Some slides from WeAreSocial.sg

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/utsmw15-infographics-global-penetration.html

From the folks at Kaspersky Labs

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/utsmw15-infographic-social-networking.html

Many Millennial will sacrifice salary for the freedom to use social media and technologies. From Online Courses.com - Social Media vs. Salary

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/utsmw15-infographic-social-vs-salary.html

From Statistica - Most Social Networks are now Mobile-First

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/utsmw15-infographic-social-medias-going.html

It's Social Media Week here at UTK's College of Communication and Information.  And time for some timely social infographics and reports. From Leverage and Social Times blog , some quick stats...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/its-social-media-week-utsmw15-time-for.html

Apple has divulged some details on the new Apple TV service that it will offer next fall.  Like the recently initiated Sling-TV, the plan is to offer a small bundle of streaming channels to cons...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/apple-joins-ott-mini-bundlers.html

Two interesting pieces recently.  One on the relative performance of top music streaming options, the other on how those services compensate performers and writers. Researchers at YouGov Bran...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/streaming-music-systems-performance.html

The February C3 ratings averages (live + 3 days), the current advertising standard, showed a 12% decline for broadcast networks, and a 11% decline for cable networks.  In fact, only 3 of the net...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/primetime-ratings-continue-decline.html

OK, first let me take care of clarifying the terminology. Assembling big (often 50+ channels) bundles of cable networks has been the primary strategy of multichannel video service providers (ca...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-end-of-big-bundles-going-la-carte.html

From Pew, some nice graphics on demographic differences in local news use .

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/pew-demographics-and-local-news-habits.html

From the fine folks at ComScore: Some highlights: -- Broadcast network live viewing down 30% over last 5-6 years -- 87% of US Internet users report regular online video viewing -- 40% of onli...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/infographic-shows-rise-of-online-video.html

Is the television industry on the threshold of a major transformation?  A number of recent industry research and reports are suggesting that major changes in how people access and view televisio...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/tv-on-verge-of-transformation.html

From The Payroll Blog

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/03/infographic-best-times-for-posting-on.html

The first two FCC attempts to impose some "network neutrality" rules were vacated by the Federal Courts because the rulemaking was based, in large part, on imputed authority that the FCC did no...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-fcc-violating-process-again-with-net.html

It's been a tough news week for U.S. news outlets and journalists.  Of course, by now most of us have heard the main headline-grabbers - Brian Williams being called out for "elaborating" his acc...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-bad-week-for-us-news-industry.html

Cable really started having trouble as it transitioned into its third stage - Cable as broadband (see Bates & Chambers, 2004 ).  A large consequence of this transition was the opportunities di...

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/02/new-challengers-for-cable-multichannel.html

From Formstack:

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/02/infographic-top-mistakes-on-mobile.html

From the 2014 U.S. edition of Deloitte's Global Mobile Consumer Survey.

http://jem499.blogspot.com/2015/02/infographic-changing-face-of-mobile.html