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Are Startups The Future Of Media?

Mitch Joel | Posted 08.26.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Instagram, Kirschenbaum Bond Senecal Partners, Mitch Joel, Marketing Professional, Future of Media, Twist Image, Six Pixels of Separation, Venture Capital, Media, Facebook, Advertising Agency, Peter Coughter, Sir Martin Sorrell, Zynga, Startup, Online Social Network, Media Corporation, Ad Tech, Imedia, Digital Marketing, Twitter, Brand, Advertising Network, Highlight, Media Landscape, Apple, Path, Pinterest, New Media, The Art of the Pitch, Canada Business News
Mitch Joel

If you take a serious look at the media world, there are only a handful of significant players. While it may be easy to define "significant" as a company doing interesting things, it's more practical to look at the media landscape. Last time I checked, no media company was behind the creation of Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or any other new media darling du jour. My guess is that they'll be investors as soon as they physically can be.

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Facebook Should Not Be Treated like Other Media

Mitch Joel | Posted 07.29.2012 | Canada
Read More: Mitch Joel, Canadian Marketing Association, TV Show, Mark Zuckerberg, Twist Image, Marketing Book, Facebook Canada, Six Pixels of Separation, Media, Facebook, Ford, Ipad, The New York Times, Media Channel, Social Media, Facebook IPO, Online Social Network, Marketing, Media Hacker, Media Company, Lululemon, Newspaper, Business Model, Magazine, Social Graph, Business Book, Iphones, Apple, Online Channel, Advertising, Advertising Revenue, Radio Station, Cma, Jordan Banks, Ctrl Alt Del, Canada News
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What does Facebook sell? You could say advertising. They sell advertising to the tune of several billions of dollars each and every year. If Facebook is a media company, we then have to ask ourselves: What kind of media channel does Facebook provide and how does it compare to those other media channels?

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Why We Shouldn't Cast Away Podcasting

Mitch Joel | Posted 07.01.2012 | Canada
Read More: Google, Podcasting, Mitch Joel, Audio Reporting, Spark, Twist Image, Audio Programming, Six Pixels of Separation, Ht Professional Recorder, Garageband, Iphone, Audio Hijack Pro, Social Media, Program Director, M Audio Microtrack, Online Social Network, Kurt Andersen, Skype, Podcast, Creativity, Audio Podcasting, Studio 360, Digital Marketing Agency, Mobile, Pursuit of Spark, MacBook Air, Recording Studio, The Grey Dog, Audio Quality, Hindenburg Field Recorder, Public Radio International, Tape Recorder, Publishing, Itunes, Business Book, Blog, Portable Digital Studio, Radio, Radio Station, Audacity, TED Conference, Online Video, Ctrl Alt Del, Julie Burstein, Sony, Canada News
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Podcasts enable each and every one of us to become the eclectic, program directors of our own radio stations, and best of all, it's the cheapest way to learn that you can find.

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