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The Download: Web Video Eats its Vegetables

Streaming Media East convened last week in New York, and there was a healthy dose of best business practices prescribed for both new and old media’s use of online video. Indeed, monetization was probably one of the show’s central themes. Sure, this is all cool and super fun, but let’s pay some bills while we’re at it. videoegg co-founder and CEO Matt Sanchez offers his take on the medium’s scale, price and product. —Jim Cooper

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The Week's Issue: NMA Wrap-Up and New Launches

The National Magazine Awards took place on May 1 and while the cocktail party gave everyone some fun schmooze time, the ceremony itself was a bit flat. Tune in to hear suggestions on how ASME can freshen up the categories and make the event even more inclusive--and exciting. --Lucia Moses and Lisa Granatstein

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This Week's Issue: Rapid Report & National Mag Awards

In the first edition of This Week’s Issue, Lucia and Lisa discuss the online circulation reporting tool, Rapid Report. Also, Lucia and Lisa ponder the upcoming National Magazine Awards. Will The New Yorker make a comeback? --Lucia Moses and Lisa Granatstein

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The Download: Long Live The Upfront

The upfront has long been rumored to be dying, or at least having its curio cabinets moved into assisted living. Certainly the fragmentation of the media marketplace makes it exponentially more complicated to place messaging. And ROI pressure makes waste an increasingly less acceptable cost of doing business. As media fragments, social nets could advance the market's model. --Jim Cooper with Michael Burgi

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The Download: Video in the Stream

March was a big month for video on the Web. In fact, I’m writing this column just a few hours before deadline in fear that more news will break and render my musings here meaningless and potentially embarrassing. If I had clacked this out say two weeks ago, it would have been about as current as a maroon IROC-Z parked in front of a Jack in the Box. –Jim Cooper with Mike Shields

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The Download: Content Arms Race

As the Battle for Yahoo between Microsoft and Google settles into trench warfare a month after Microsoft tendered its hostile $45 billion offer, one factor has yet to be addressed: None of these companies has any original, high-quality content to speak of. –Jim Cooper with Michael Burgi

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The Download: Generation On-Demand

“Commercial!” My 5-year-old Grayce shouts this annoyed heads-up from the other room. It seems the DVR’d episode of SpongeBob needs fast forwarding through the ads she deems not worthy of her attention. She, and kids in her age range, say 2 to 10, have unprecedented control over technology. --Jim Cooper

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CBS Dominates the Wednesday Overnights; ABC and NBC Continue to Struggle

2008-11-20

Led by old faithfuls Criminal Minds and the 100th episode of CSI: NY, CBS has a lock on the Wednesday overnights.  But ABC and NBC continue to lag in midweek.

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Mr. TV: Army of One

Since it isn’t every day I have the chance to interview a megastar (and impress my two teenage children in the process), this week’s column is devoted to the one—and only—Gene Simmons, with whom I spoke on camera during our Mediaweek All-Stars luncheon last week.

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