intermediaries

by: Nancy Baym

Since MIDEM, I have been reflecting a lot on the future of the music industry. As I wrote below, as an outsider, I was discouraged by what seemed to be backwards thinking regarding what I see as the great opportunities of the era of the networked audience.

by: Idris Mootee

There's
never a better time for media executives in terms of fun. This whole
consumer-generated content thing is turning the media world upside
down. There's always that question of who is the content provider and
who is the distributor? Who is the intermediary? The lines between
them are blurred. Consumers are both distributors and/or producers.