Squid Game’s Subtle Banner Game
What can we learn from the growth of Squid Game, and is Netflix’s big banner more important than word of mouth?
Tag: advertising
Will Spotify Share The Benefits Of Podcasting?
Spotify is in the business of capturing as many ‘listening minutes’ as possible. Can that approach also benefit podcasters?
Trivial Posts #29: To Be Read In The Style Of Clive Anderson
A slightly delayed Trivial Posts this week, but it’s still full of the best stories, links, and articles that I’ve found online this week. You can sign up to have this posted out to you every week, subscribe to the newsletter version here. Who’s Line Was First Anyway? They might be ten-a-penny on panel shows and in comedy clubs, but when did the lust for improvised comedy start in the UK? John Dowie discovers the first giants for Chortle… Jim Sweeney and Steve: Just as the Sex Pistols had inspired a generation of kids to form bands, so Alexei Sayle inspired a load of performers
The future of media is cosplay
From The PA Report: But let’s get back to the general ecosystem out there: How do sites justify running longer, in-depth stories that won’t bring in the huge page views? I have bad news. They write shit. Popular shit. I stopped getting mad at the “Top Ten Japanese Panties I Jerked Off To Last Night” stories on certain sites when I realized that the hundreds of thousands of page views those articles received helped pay for a writer to spend a week gathering sources and do original reporting for a feature. The “Sexy Cosplay” galleries are worth an epic amount
“And now on the BBC, a message from our sponsors…”
Just checked in at my hotel in Copenhagen (heading up to Herning tomorrow for Melodi Grand Prix, Denmark’s “Song for Europe” televised national final, and as XKCD would say… something is wrong with the internet. I’ll never get used to the shock of seeing banner ads on the BBC News website.
What’s holding back UK publishers on mobile?
The agencies aren’t selling enough adverts! Still, The Guardian’s David Leigh thinks it can all be sorted if the Government tax internet access at ÂŁ24 a year.
