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Walmart (tkr: WMT) can do better than to jointly acquire TikTok with Microsoft (tkr: MSFT). A TikTok acquisition is fraught with risk. Our preference would be for Walmart to acquire a leading retailer in a growing category. AutoZone (tkr: AZO) is one such example. Premium article. 539 words. $9.99 One of the first things you … Continue reading Walmart Can Do Better than to Acquire TikTokPremium
Not Apples to Apples but the Below Tells A Story.. YouTube (GOOG): More than 1.9 billion logged-in YouTubers each month. 200 million+ logged-in users watch people play games on YouTube each day. (YouTube/Stadia has one foot in today and one in tomorrow with traditional content and video games on the platform). Netflix (NFLX): 139 million … Continue reading Content Wars & Investing for Tomorrow
Notice anything about the above image? It looks like a Facebook feed and five of the nine content pieces (only three are fully visible), are videos. The image is a screen capture from Goldman Sachs' homepage - part of a modernization/ outreach effort under new Goldman CEO David Solomon. Personally I've noticed that companies are … Continue reading Every Company Is A Content Company
Content Is King Content is King to quote Sumner Redstone. At CEORater we spend a fair amount of time thinking about content. Over the past 24 months we have considered the following for our platform: 1.) video streaming of earnings calls with associated analytics 2.) employee video reviews 3.) business news (original and third-party) and … Continue reading Original Content Disclosures Are Lacking. Introducing “Content Yield”
Technology news items that caught our attention this week: Google’s AI can now lip read better than humans after watching thousands of hours of TV: Link Instagram takes a shot at YouTube, further distances itself from other social media platforms by rolling out long-form video: Link One million people use Bank of America’s AI-powered virtual … Continue reading Technology News from the Week: June 18th 2018
Everyone Wants Their 15 Minutes of Fame It’s a primary reason why Instagram “Stories” are so popular. That and the feature’s ease-of-use. Instagram has created an engaging, almost frictionless user experience that enables anyone to vlog their life in a series of micro videos with a 24-hour shelf life – i.e “Stories”. Stories is the … Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: The Intersection of User-Generated Video, Social Media and Mobile Devices
A Disney Fox deal could be announced as early as this week. "Content is King" to quote Sumner Redstone, and Disney in recent years has loaded-up on content (Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm) to push through its OTT network - BAMTech. Fox's movie library would further bolster Disney's original content library - feeding BAMTech's demand for content. … Continue reading Netflix Loses In A Disney Fox Deal
AT&T Ought to Be Allowed to Acquire Time Warner "As Is" AT&T (T) ought to be allowed to acquire Time Warner (TWX) “as is” (earlier today AT&T extended the deal close deadline to April 22 2018). It is puzzling why the Justice Department would push back on the deal. We recently covered the topic in … Continue reading AT&T’s Proposed Acquisition of Time Warner – Justice Department is MisguidedPremium
Good article by Wired. Here's a recent review by Mark Kermode:
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