Normally my Life Cycle Updates include some fancy graphs and some basic statistical analysis. However, I’d like to get a bit more personal this week. A brief digression. I just had an unbelievably bad restaurant experience. Inattentive service, attitude, incorrectly cooked food (that I could not send back due to an absent server), and plenty…
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By Brad Schwarzenbach | Published August 17th, 2009Vimeo Preparing for Monetization
By Brad Schwarzenbach | Published August 3rd, 2009Vimeo is the best site out there to find high-quality, creative video content. A couple months ago, we reported Vimeo was in the Escalation Phase of its New Media Life Cycle. The channel continues to evolve, and while it’s too early to declare that Vimeo is in full monetization, it is showing signs of maturing….
Ustream.tv: Gestating in the New Media Life Cycle
By Andrew Davis | Published May 15th, 2009Ustream.tv saw a big jump in popularity when it streamed the inauguration of Barack Obama live on the Internet. Ustream has focused on quality over quantity and has drawn traffic and attention for it.
How Miller High Life Could Have Escalated 12seconds.tv
By Andrew Davis | Published February 26th, 2009Our New Media Life Cycle Analysis has led us to some very interesting hypotheses about what factors influence the end of one phase of the life cycle and the beginning of the next phase. Our current analysis of 12seconds.tv illustrates that it is currently in the gestation phase of its Life Cycle: The goal of…