If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the premiere of NBC’s Knight Rider and how managing for margins makes for terrible television. Plus, today’s consulting question comes from Heidi R., an account exec from Bethpage, NY. Heidi asks, “When is free WiFi coming Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the Daily Show’s increased ratings and why viewers are turning to comedy in a time of despair. Plus, Betsy K., a video editor in Houston, TX asks, “Why did T-Mobile drop the restrictions from its G1 Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on GOOGLE’s G1 and T-MOBILE’s 1GB of data cap. Plus, Paulette B., a UX designer from Syracuse, NY asks, “Is the new G-phone really an iPhone killer?” ABC scored its highest opening night rating since 1999 with Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on GOOGLE and T-MOBILE unveiling the first Android enabled phone and whether or not consumers will understand the value proposition. MTV Networks has acquired social networking platform FLUX, which allows users to share and interact with content Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards and how the television industry sounds desperate. SANDISK is set to release SlotMusic. SANDISK, who is working with all four major recorded music labels, will sell music and special extras Continue Reading →
With the recent collapse of three of five major American financial institutions, a war going into its sixth year, an election that is far from predictable and a housing crisis that has thousands struggling to pay their mortgages, it’s no surprise that Americans are worried about the future. To make matters worse, the rising cost Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the latest in U.S. ad spending and how the numbers don’t tell the full truth. EBAY is selling off STUMBLEUPON. eBay, which acquired StumbleUpon for $75 million in May of 2007, has hired Deutsche Bank to Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on KATIE COURIC going on the road with McCain and Palin and how it could be the GOP’s way of punishing NBC. This week’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL game between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles drew the Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on how the consolidation and collapse of financial institutions is bound to hurt the Advertising business. SANDISK has rejected SAMSUNG’s offer of $5.8 billion. The cash deal was rejected on the basis that it “undervalues” SanDisk and Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the future of Television Ad Sales and how the Wall Street Fallout doesn’t bode well for the Networks. BEST BUY will purchase NAPSTER for $121 million. The revolutionary, but now obsolete file sharing platform, never caught Continue Reading →