The Year The Media Died: An Ode, Sort Of
Our friend Terence Kawaja over at investment bank GCA Savvian has been moonlighting as an amateur comic for years now, and released his latest video effort, called Mad Ave Blues, at Digital Media Summit earlier this week, which his company organized. Sung to Don McLean’s “American Pie”, this parody “is about the media/advertising world and the impact to the traditional models brought about by the accelerating migration to digital,” as he describes it. Embedded below:
Genius. Consider me a fan. Thank you for sharing.
And underscoring his point, I read and watched this on my iPhone at 4am.
This was really well done. The only point I'd clarify is that while this is the year that media started to noticeably fall apart, the writing has been on the wall since the mid 90s — especially for print. Like the US auto industry, traditional media has been the walking dead.
Media will rise again, but I think right now it's hard to see past the "destruction" phase of creative destruction.
This is brilliant and amazingly pithy.
Simply beautiful! Haven't enjoyed an expose piece like this since Googlezon.