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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. President Obama’s historical visit to the Tonight Show garnered the highest ratings for Jay Leno since 2005. Nielsen reports that the Obama interview drew an 11.2 rating, compared to Leno’s average of 3.9. The show proved to be the fourth most Continue Reading →

This past week the first of America’s major metropolitan newspapers has made the decision to cease print operations and transform itself into an online only news organization. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer RIP, long live www.seattlepi.com — if only it could be true. If you’re interested in the details, you can read a very thorough article in Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. President Barack Obama made a special appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. Obama used the platform to pitch a change in economic ethics and values, much of it centered on the recent AIG bonuses scandal. President Obama Continue Reading →

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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Sony and Google have teamed to fight Amazon in the e-book market. The two companies are expected to announce a partnership today, which would give Sony Reader users access to the 500,000 books available as part of Google’s digital book project Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Apple unveiled new software for the iPhone yesterday at a conference in Cupertino, CA. The company also revealed new tools available to developers to build software applications for the iPhone. For users, the new iPhone update will finally allow for the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Hearst Corp announced that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will become a web-only destination. The Seattle P-I, a 146 year old paper, is the first major US newspaper to abandon print format. The P-I, whose losses amounted to over $14 million last Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yahoo is set to refresh its web video presence. While Yahoo tried its hand at web video last year in a joint venture with Pepsi dubbed “the 9”, new shows like “Primetime in No Time” maybe successful by utilizing sponsors and Continue Reading →

Today’s thought experiment is going to help us visualize the future of commercial message management. Of course message management is just a way to describe the way content gets to a consumer. We have a bunch of other names for it: television, radio and newspapers, to name a few. Traditionally, these media have been used Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer went head to head on the Daily Show last night after a week of Stewart laying into Cramer for recommending Bear Sterns stocks in the days before the company fell apart. Stewart questioned both Cramer’s and Continue Reading →