Monthly Archives: January 2006

Talpa and Endemol trying to make money with pull services

Talpa as well as Endemol are trying to get people to pay for their content. Talpa is selling its serial Van Speijk price 1.50 Euro per episode. Endemol is selling one minute versions of the popular soap GTST. price will be around 0,50 Euro up to 1.00 Euro per minute.

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X-media club, a party it was!!

I had the pleasure of moderating a very interesting debate on crossmedia at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. There is a stream available, total duration is 3 hours, but every minute interesting.
We had
concept developer Theo Meereboer of Sanoma;
Krijn Schuurman as a media trendwatcher
Annelies Kaptein, one of the first interactive television programmers in the NL, who [...]

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the guys that wrote the ‘ we media ‘ report

Take a look:
http://www.hypergene.net/blog/weblog.php

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50 million for Dutch crossmedia-fund

Joop van den Ende, the other half of the famous Endemol enterprise is back in the mediagame. He has started up a crossmedia fund. Together with Hubert Deitmers (former board of directors Endemol) Van den Ende plans to bring his passion for media back into new companies that operate on the converging marketplace. Van den [...]

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how writing will change in this century, says christy

Christy Dena is a well appreciated co-thinker on crossmedia. Here’s what she has to say on the future of the noble art of writing:
http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/index.php/2006/01/06/writing-predictions-for-the-next-decade/

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reserve in your agenda 23th of January

Yours truly will moderate the discussion at the X-media event on 23th of january:
http://x-mediaclub.blogspot.com
It’s free and inspiring

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newsvine, news by you

In Korea they already have a website that is made by the readers (Ohmy).On Frankwatching I saw this tip:
http://www.newsvine.com
It is still in beta, but looks very interesting. This can function as a “portal”, sorry for using that out of date term, but that is what it is, for the news you would like to receive. [...]

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inscript sponsoring is to safe broadcast budgets

The new European directive for the audiovisual industry will ‘loosen’ the rules for product placement. This will help the broadcasters to grow their budgets and keep on pace in the market of emerging on-demand services is wat the commission expects. Because this will be more effective commercial communication thereby generating higher income for broadcasters (again).Off [...]

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NSE, last attempts..

NSE the news sport and entertainment show on newcomer Talpa is currently still in heavy weather. A newsprogram always needs more time to grow, the same applies here.
NSE has to question itself.., What is my true added value to the newsparadigm that is already offered? And that is not in the form of your newspresentation [...]

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