In the August 2008 issue of Wired, there’s a feature article about Hollywood’s efforts to get online:
Top writer-producers in television live like pampered pets, the kind that get caviar for breakfast. [...] Some of them think of Web video as a sort of farm club for TV: Why spend $2 million to make a half-hour [...]
Entries from August 2008
Web episodes, only $10,000-30,000 each!!
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Future of media · State of the market
Startup Lessons #15: Communication iteration
August 17th, 2008 · No Comments
How do you explain what your business does?
If you have a long-running business in an established industry sector, that’s not a hard question. Thousands of different types of businesses are understood by most people, as we interact with them and/or their products every day. “We manufacture car parts” or “we operate a chain of convenience [...]
Tags: Startup lessons
Fashion magazines falling from favor
August 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Sales of U.S. fashion magazines plummeted in the first half of 2008.
Vogue’s newsstand sales dropped 14.8%. Marie Claire’s dropped 12.1%. W was down 10.4%. Allure was down 9.6%; Glamour 9.2%; Elle 6.3% and Cosmopolitan 6.1%.
Lucky was luckier than most, dropping only 5.0% at the newsstand — but a figure like that is hardly cause [...]
Tags: Future of media · State of the market
$500 studio + 5 fast learners = a great TV show
August 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Style Spice is our first official show here at The Wardrobe Channel; that’s the pilot above.
Personally, I think it’s a great result — especially when you consider that the studio cost $500 to set up and none of the cast or crew had made a television show before.
It’s an important step for us because it [...]
Tags: Wardrobe Channel news
Launch it and leave it
August 7th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s here, it’s live!
The Wardrobe Channel is launched. At last you get to see what all the fuss is about, and we’re going to leave it alone for a few days so you can tell us what you think.
Up until now, we’ve been a vapourware company, so all the hard work has taken place behind [...]
Tags: Wardrobe Channel news