Nov 13, 2008
The endless coffee choices at Starbucks (or any other coffee shop) can depress consumers, according to a slide presented at SIME by Christophe Cauvy, digital director of McCann for Europe. The diagram is from Swarthmore professor Barry Schwartz. Increasing choice makes people happy up to a point, then turns negative. This recalls a conversation I
Nov 11, 2008
For those looking to sell a dotcom to a major media company, Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, offers tips and thoughts in the below video. After a long career in newspapers, Gordon has lately been spending a great deal of time in Silicon Valley. The good news for start-ups is that
Oct 29, 2008
Running notes from on stage interview of Bill Roedy, CEO and Chairman MTV International. LOCALIZATION“MTV launched into localized content ‘back before it was cool’”.“At the time, this was controversial because of opening local offices, transponders and all the expense. Now the local strategy has hooked us into many centers of cool around the world.” “Our
Oct 29, 2008
Stunning complacency shown by pay TV industry executives following a great panel by Steve Marcopoto, the Hong Kong-based president of Turner Broadcasting System Asia. Steve’s panel featured four high school students talking about their media consumption habits and afterwards the audience was polled to find out whether they thought Asia’s pay TV industry was doing
Oct 29, 2008
Anyone eager for a little cheeriness amid the financial maelstrom would have found a relatively high level of optimism at this morning’s panel on media investment at the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia convention. Moderated by May Lee of Lotus Media House, the panelists fought the perception that Asia and the world are
Oct 22, 2008
Caught up with Simon Twiston Davies, CEO of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia, for his assessment of Asia’s pay TV industry on the eve of the annual CASBAA convention here in Hong Kong. I will liveblog next week’s convention. Good news for TV in Asia:- Advertising revenue remains stable (for now). Historically:-
Oct 3, 2008
Declining stocks are hardly news these days, but a chart sent out today by Paul Woodward at BSG shows a brutal plunge for business-to-business publishing in Asia. The black line are those selected by BSG the basket while the pink are all B2B Stocks over past 12 months. All stocks are now valued equally badly,
Aug 1, 2008
Fed up with Hong Kong’s limited offering of all-music radio, Nick Swanson – an A330 pilot – launched Hongkongfm.net on July 1, 2007. He now claims more than 10,000 listeners and hopes to give up his day job. Video of Nick below the fold and here. Streamed across the Internet, he was not restricted by
Jul 30, 2008
Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch co-editor, last week explained to me how TechCrunch works, in a mere six minutes. Formerly a magazine writer for Fortune and Business 2.0, Erick embraced blogs highly successfully (especially for a traditional media guy). Founded by uber-blogger and valley personality Michael Arrington, TechCrunch is the most popular tech blog and probably the
Jul 29, 2008
Government incentives in Japan and Korea boost mobile TV penetration, but also distort the market, according an article in the latest issue of The Asia Media Journal. Japan: Regulation decreeing that broadcasts to mobile must be the same as those on TV, a measure that helped keep rival services from telcos at bay, was just
Jul 27, 2008
The video below, broadcast on the French TV news channel France24 and now loaded onto their YouTube, violates my copyrights. The reporters I dealt with were excellent (They included Julien Pain, who knows a great deal about the Internet and censorship.). But the final version of the piece broadcast my video clip without any credit.
Jul 23, 2008
Members of the featured band at Fortune Brainstorm – The Go – passed commentary on the Silicon Valley crowd by crashing on chairs beside the restroom. The distant member of the band in this photo clearly used his university years to perfect the “reading-not-sleeping” pose. Too bad his heavy breathing gave it away. As for
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
