MocoNews Contributor Jeremy Laws was formerly SVP of Universal Pictures Digital Platforms, where he headed up the film studio’s mobile initiatives. These days he is more likely found blogging at Cabana Mobile.
At a Mobile Entertainment Forum event earlier this week in Los Angeles, Sam Sarkar, a senior exec for Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp’s production company [photo left], took to the stage to provide some valuable perspective on the roller-coaster ride the mobile entertainment industry has been on over the past 10 years.
His thesis was that fits and starts are inherent in emerging businesses, and that in the development of every medium, the business model is what makes it viable, but the artistry is what comes to define it.
Sarkar suggested that television didn’t really begin to realize its artistic potential until the late 60s or early 70s, despite having public debuted in the late 1920s. He told an interesting story about how television
Agree. Mobile apps will take entertainment to the next level.
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