Comments on: How the New Yorker monetizes old content http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/10/how-the-new-yorker-monetizes-old-content/ A slice of lime in the soda Tue, 21 May 2013 01:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: MaysonLancaster http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/10/how-the-new-yorker-monetizes-old-content/comment-page-1/#comment-31696 MaysonLancaster Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:19:18 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=10427#comment-31696 God, but your signin system sucks! And the New Yorker is really doing a lousy job with these digital collections: I spent ten minutes trying to find someplace on the web to buy them, to no avail. God, but your signin system sucks! And the New Yorker is really doing a lousy job with these digital collections: I spent ten minutes trying to find someplace on the web to buy them, to no avail.

]]> By: y2kurtus http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/10/how-the-new-yorker-monetizes-old-content/comment-page-1/#comment-31691 y2kurtus Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:20:27 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=10427#comment-31691 As usual Felix is all over a breaking trend. Old content... even decades old content is massively valuable in the "long-tail" environment. My wife loves watching Family Ties. My 18 month old son loves watching the same PBS kids shows I watched growing up. NFLX picked up thousands of hours of content like this for dirt cheap prices. Content owners like DIS, CBS, SONY and others are licking their chops at another cut of revenue from assets which have been long since paid for amortized or depreciated down to zero. As usual Felix is all over a breaking trend. Old content… even decades old content is massively valuable in the “long-tail” environment. My wife loves watching Family Ties. My 18 month old son loves watching the same PBS kids shows I watched growing up.

NFLX picked up thousands of hours of content like this for dirt cheap prices. Content owners like DIS, CBS, SONY and others are licking their chops at another cut of revenue from assets which have been long since paid for amortized or depreciated down to zero.

]]> By: Jaytu http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/10/how-the-new-yorker-monetizes-old-content/comment-page-1/#comment-31689 Jaytu Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:52:32 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=10427#comment-31689 The revenue stream that Felix is referring to is ad dollars. The compilations are free to TNY subscribers. The revenue stream that Felix is referring to is ad dollars. The compilations are free to TNY subscribers.

]]> By: klhoughton http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/10/how-the-new-yorker-monetizes-old-content/comment-page-1/#comment-31671 klhoughton Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:06:29 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=10427#comment-31671 I'm less enthusiastic, of course (as with VF, they want to make it clear to their non-Apple customers that we are second-class citizens), but note that this is another case of getting people to pay for something they can access for free, TNY's archives being free to subscribers. I’m less enthusiastic, of course (as with VF, they want to make it clear to their non-Apple customers that we are second-class citizens), but note that this is another case of getting people to pay for something they can access for free, TNY’s archives being free to subscribers.

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