“The bundle is the Gibraltar of the media business,” said Tim Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,”…”

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““The bundle is the Gibraltar of the media business,” said Tim Wu, the author of “The Master Switch,” a history of media revolutions. “It keeps the entire ecosystem alive, which is why it is so heavily and successfully defended. But there are hairline fractures beginning to appear, and you are seeing alliances shift.””

At NYT, David Carr explains why the long standing ‘bundle’ system for delivering advertising on many platforms (especially cable TV) is now failing and why the consequences for TV may be immense. 

"Beginning today, because of the “CALM Act” (it stands for Commercial Advertisement Loudness…"

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“Beginning today, because of the “CALM Act” (it stands for Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation), by federal law and accompanying FCC regulations, commercials aren’t allowed to be any louder on average than the shows they accompany. Thi…

Has Conde Nast ushered in a new era of Editor-Advertiser…

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Has Conde Nast ushered in a new era of Editor-Advertiser collaboration? Do we really want them to?

Is Shazam the next QR code? The increasing power of audio tagging

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TV advertisements are using music and mobile app Shazam to create links from the ads to the products they are selling. What else can audio tagging do for us? For a while now, Old Navy has teamed up with Shazam to provide what is essentially the audio version of QR codes to consumers watching the [...]

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