Automation is coming for content creation – what will be the implications?
Automation is coming for content creation – what will be the implications?
At Cannes Lions, no one will discuss the most significant disruption to hit the advertising industry since the internet- the transition to programmatic, real time bidding (RTB), except for maybe a few data geeks. Carl Fremont, Chief Digital Officer at MEC (WPP Group’s media buying subsidiary) is one of those Geeks and shared his perspective about RTB, “easily, the most important trend in the digital advertising sector for the next five years”.
I’m currently in Madrid, Spain, giving a keynote in La Red Innova, speaking about mobile search and its impact on ecommerce. Red Innova is a thought leadership conference held for the third year in Madrid
LumaPartners, a US-based consulting firm, has created a series of infographics that chart the various vertical of the digital media industry including display advertising, mobile, commerce, search, social, and video. Dubbed LUMAscapes, each infographic provides a breakdown of the players in the vertical, by category
Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. As part of a series of interviews with Seedcamp winners for VC Cafe, Startup Intelligence caught up with co-founder, Gil Rosenberg (CEO), to find out more.
Lisa Bennett, Director of Public Relations & Marketing of Israel’s Kaltura.com, the first open source platform for video creation, management and collaboration, sent me the following announcement: Wikia and Kaltura Partner to Add Collaborative Video Capabilities to Wikia Communities Wikia deploys Kaltura’s open source MediaWiki Collaborative Video Extension, allowing users to collaborate in video …
And the saga continues: After a week of speculations, we thought we’ve heard everything. It started with Microsoft’s bid. Then rumors said that a PE firm will come to the rescue. Google couldn’t just be a bystander and added oil to the fire by offering Yahoo a sweet advertising deal and a larger piece of …
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Microsoft offers an acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 a share, totaling in an equity value of $44.6 Billion . Microsoft’s proposal represents a 62% premium to Yahoo’s current trading price, but will Yahoo take it? Yahoo has been struggling recently – the stock declined 38% and plans were made to lay off 1000 employees. From …
A year ago people used to say that “content is king” when it comes to making it big on the internet. But does the old paradigm hold today when every web 2.0 startup seeks user-generated content and 156,046 social networks were created on Ning? Meet the new king – “syndication”. Ronen Shilo, CEO of US/Israel …
In an exclusive interview with VC Cafe, Levy Cohen, CEO and Founder of Israel/US based Collarity, provides insights into the company’s value proposition, future plans and lessons learned along the way. Founded in 2005, Collarity has developed a comprehensive content monetization platform for web publishers. What does it mean? Collarity is basically a web service …