I find this infographic from the Globe and Mail (but which I saw on Siobhan O’Flynn’s site) so interesting. If film’s revenues come from DVD sales and rentals, why shouldn’t digital make its money through sales as well?And of course, who doesn’t love the growing trend of watching online video?
What the heck? A business model actually:
Connect with Fans (CwF) and give them a Reason to Buy (RtB). CwF+RtB=$$$.
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Google sent me a coupon for $100 to use on AdWord recently. AdWords is for advertising your own product and is not to be confused with AdSense which allows you to put ads on your site and earn money from them. But AdWords is pretty confusing even if you know that.
Who’s gonna ignore […]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Would you sign up and pay into the micropayment program just so you could “tip” creators?
Flattr.com - How Flattr Works from Flattr on Vimeo.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
I often call Hailey Hacks my experiment in revenue models. I have used the project to explore different ways of monetizing online projects and will continue try different things with it.
When I uploaded the current crop of episodes to blip.tv, I decided to try turning on the ads. I haven’t turned on pre-roll yet. That’s […]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years. In my last post, I talked about viewing habits. Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us.
Blogs
Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog easily arrived […]
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I got very excited reading the transcript of Liesl Copland’s keynote speech to Sunday’s Doc Conference at the Toronto International Film Festival. Copland is an executive at William Morris Endeavor’s Global Finance & Distribution Group and a former Netflix employee. Her speech was — on the surface — about the future of the specialty film […]