When it comes to selling e-books, the Harry Potter franchise is far from conventional: Pottermore has been selling JK Rowling’s Harry Potter e-books without digital rights protection. Why? Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne answers that and more in a paidContent 2012 interview with Laura Hazard Owen. Read more »
At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering w… Read more »
Tablets are a killer device when it comes to media consumption today, but is that down to the form factor, or because they are only being us… Read more »
Some love to talk about the future and promise of the mobile web — and that may well be the case, longer term — but today the mobile world… Read more »
Some media companies, like Disney (NYSE: DIS) and News Corp.’s Fox, have invested a lot of time and money into mobile as standalone business… Read more »
» Our paidContent Mobile Conference: Here’s What Happened (paidContent)
» Here’s an interesting debate: “This Is Your… Read more »
For a few hours Wednesday, the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood became an energetic mobile media hub courtesy of pai… Read more »
New research released at Wednesday’s paidContent Mobile from the app analytics company Flurry spells out the force of apps in the mobile wor… Read more »
What are venture capital firms looking for in mobile startups? Think emotional value and rethink the economics of content, Albert Wenger, a… Read more »
Research and development is challenged when media companies try to protect their existing businesses instead of moving forward. And Sara Ohr… Read more »
In addition to seeking third party help from sources, MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) has been experimenting with its own home-grown entertainment… Read more »
There’s been a good deal of worry over geo-location services embedded in iPhone and Android phones, after it was revealed that Apple (NSDQ:… Read more »
It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers — it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, pa… Read more »
Here’s a safe bet: is Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) going to launch a music subscription service within the next year? Two of the three music industry… Read more »
“Globalization is now not just for Foreign Affairs magazine,” said Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Digital, in this… Read more »
New research from the app analytics company Flurry spells out the force of apps in the mobile world today pretty clearly: there are 500 mill… Read more »
One of the greatest mobile gaming hits ever just keeps on rolling: Angry Birds has hit the 200 million-downloads milestone, Rovio’s Mighty E… Read more »
What are venture capital firms looking for in mobile startups? Think emotional value and rethink the economics of content, Albert Wenger, a… Read more »
With the unquestioned growth in mobile platforms and the penchant for free services on mobile devices and services, one would think mobile a… Read more »
Everybody’s talking about the weather, but contrary to the old adage, Mike Kelly, president and CEO of The Weather Channel Companies is actu… Read more »
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »
There’s a false dichotomy that makes its way into conversations about media strategy about whether it’s best to have a paid content strategy… Read more »
Of all the wireless devices that have hit the market in the past several years, tablets present the biggest commercial opportunity for media… Read more »
A full agenda at paidContent Mobile: Platform Power kicks off at 8:30 this morning with new research from Nielsen and a Q&A with MLBAM CEO B… Read more »
We’re in the final stages of prep for Wednesday’s paidContent Mobile: Platform Power with a lineup that’s getting even better. The NHL’s Per… Read more »
Among the highlights planned for Wednesday’s paidContent Mobile: Platform Power, three presentations aimed at bringing attendees a first-han… Read more »
paidContent Mobile: Platform Power in New York is less than two weeks away. On May 18, join us as we discuss the dominating mobile platforms… Read more »
While Rio the movie rakes it in at the box office, Angry Birds Rio catapulted to the top of the app charts with 10 million downloads in the… Read more »
For years, the carriers held most of the cards. Now the conversation and innovation is dominated by the platforms and extended to tablets th… Read more »
For years, despite the wide popularity of Windows, Symbian and BlackBerry, the carriers held most of the cards. That started to shift with t… Read more »
For years, despite the wide popularity of Windows, Symbian and BlackBerry, the carriers held most of the cards. That started to shift with t… Read more »
Location-based services that tell you want you before you even knew you wanted it; mobile phones with 3D displays; big companies relying mor… Read more »
Which should be the bigger priority for app publishers — making sure their apps are addictive and useful, or figuring out how to monetize t… Read more »
Today we had our paidContent Mobile: Leveraging the Smartphone Boom conference at Columbia University in NYC. During the full-day event we d… Read more »
For the last panel of the day at paidContent Mobile, moderator Ernie Sander, managing editor for ContentNext Media, asked what the biggest p… Read more »
During a discussion on the business of smartphone apps, Lima Sky founder Igor Pusenjak compared the rush to build iPhone apps to the rush to… Read more »
Is mobile media about search or apps? Depends who you ask. In a panel session at paidContent Mobile, Tricia Duryee, editor for paidContent s… Read more »
At paidContent Mobile today in New York, Alan Wurtzel, the president of research and media development of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), outlined… Read more »
Remember BBC Listener, the $12.99-a-quarter iPhone app BBC Worldwide launched in to the U.S. in May?
We don’t know how popular it’s been ye… Read more »
After discussing their recent travel plans, our founder Rafat Ali spoke with Rob Glaser, partner, Accel Partners / chairman, RealNetworks (N… Read more »
