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Sports ratings records...

by Mark Cuban, November 2, 2009 | Comments (1)

	...and what it tells us about the Internet Have you seen sports ratings lately? Just this week: The NBA on TNT had its highest ratings in 20 years. Versus had its highest rated regular season NHL game ever. The first game of the World Series was the highest rated in five years. The NFL was setting records on cable and achieving viewing levels not seen in 20 years! ...
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The DVR vs Internet video

by Mark Cuban, October 26, 2009 | Comments

The DVR is what every Internet-based TV delivery device or service aims to be when they grow up

The “conventional wisdom” of Internet intellectuals is that it's a foregone conclusion that the future of content delivery is via the Internet. Furthermore, the same Internet panel populaters seem to be of the mindset that traditional entertainment and content companies, “just don't get it”. History has written that if it can be gotten for free, it should be gotten for ...

Google shows Amazon the way...

by Mark Cuban, September 13, 2009 | Comments

...to save the content business by offering media bundles on the Kindle

Just read a great article at the Neiman Journalism Lab site about Google’s plans to help the content industry. In a nutshell, the concept is to utilize Google’s Checkout, their payment system, to enable publishers of news and other premium content to both sell their content as part of subscriptions and/or via micropayments. What caught my interest was the concept ...

YouTube vs. broadcast networks

by Mark Cuban, September 9, 2009 | Comments

Google's online video network can be positioned as the 'minor league' for broadcast networks

YouTube, CBS, NBC, ABC are going to have an awful lot in common in the not too distant future. Which company uses its traffic to drive eyeballs to programming on which it sells advertising? They all do. The biggest difference between YouTube and the broadcast networks is that one actually produces content or pays a licensing fee for the content ...

What entrepreneurs should not do

by Mark Cuban, August 21, 2009 | Comments (1)

	Tips on what you should send out in an email to prospective investors I get deal pitches daily. I want all of you to understand the code words that IMHO are sure fire signs that the entrepreneur has no idea what they are doing and is destined to fail. This is from an email today, redacted of course to protect the guilty. My interpretation of the letter is in bold. My name is ...
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Advice to Fox and MySpace on selling content

by Mark Cuban, August 10, 2009 | Comments (1)

	Do it! And, block aggregation sites. The value of most traffic is minimal, at best Rupert, you didn’t ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me. First the good news. You can sell content on the internet. People pay for content on and off the internet every second of every day. It’s easy to do. If you do it right. But before I get to the how to, let me ...
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Google is learning the reality of free

by Mark Cuban, July 9, 2009 | Comments (1)

Has Google realized that if you live by free, you die by free?

Great catch from the folks over at TechCrunch. In their post “What the hell happened to the free version of Google Apps” , they take note that Google is doing everything possible to channel new users of Google Apps to the paid version. This apparent shift in Google strategy regarding free raises some interesting questions: 1. Google is building ...

Succeed with free, die with free

by Mark Cuban, July 8, 2009 | Comments (1)

The more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top

The problem with companies who have built their business around free is that it is far from free to remain successful. The more success you have in delivering free, the more expensive it is to stay at the top. The more success you have, the more important it is to management to remain successful. The more important remaining successful is ...

Free vs Freely distributed

by Mark Cuban, July 2, 2009 | Comments

You can get it for free at the cost of your attention, your email, your address, etc.

With the publication of Chris Anderson’s new book "Free," the discussion about the role of free, today and in the future has expanded. Articles from Malcom Gladwell in New Yorker, and Seth Godin discuss the various merits and challenges of Free. Is Free inevitable? Is Free the beginning of the end? Let me answer the question. First of all, what ...

On sports media and the stock market

by Mark Cuban, June 23, 2009 | Comments

ESPN, local newspapers, radio and TV have become patsies of bloggers

1. Has anyone noticed that it's impossible to trust a single word uttered about coaching changes, the draft, trades and even celebration parties these days? Bloggers, sports Web sites and even the print media have gotten so desperate they seem to have come to the conclusion that fabricated stories, passed off as rumors, are a better way to drive traffic ...

The Google-YouTube conundrum

by Mark Cuban, June 11, 2009 | Comments

	What happens when and if Google stops subsidizing user-generated video? You have a video that you want to post on the Web. It may be just for you. It could be for friends. It could be for family. It could be for a company or a political campaign. It could a video that you want seen by as many people as possible. Regardless of your audience expectations, do you have ...
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Twitter and Facebook now compete with Google

by Mark Cuban, May 29, 2009 | Comments

	This could translate into systemic change in user behavior and business opportunity Last year I wrote a blog post entitled “If the news is important it will find me”. The point was that we all live in so many social networks, that someone will send us an update if something in the world happens that we would be interested in. Back then I was guessing. A year later I have data. For ...
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Twitter's future is not a slam dunk

by Mark Cuban, May 4, 2009 | Comments

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The evolution of digital communication - from blogging, social networks to Twitter, to...

It was a little more than five years ago that I started blogging with this post. How interesting is it that my first post related to the quality and purpose of sports writing and now five years later, my writings about newspapers have evolved from my annoyance with them, to my hope that they will survive ? In the beginning ...

The first big broadband application

by Mark Cuban, April 10, 2009 | Comments (1)

There will be new high bandwidth applications that are truly beneficial to society

We are in the broadband era. There have been stair-step increases in broadband speeds on a market by market basis across the country and the world. As fiber and Docsis 3.0 enter markets, providers jack up their download speeds to 50 and even in some cases 100mbs. That’s great. Speed is always what we need. But what has it brought ...

Some Twitter thoughts

by Mark Cuban, April 6, 2009 | Comments (2)

I don't know if Twitter will get big for the 18 and younger set

Now that Twitter seems to be a media darling and an acquisition target, I thought I would share some of my observations. 1. Tweets are the blog posts you thought about writing, but didn’t feel they had enough substance 2. Twitterers are older. Myspace started around music and students. Facebook started around college students. Twitter was started by old people. ...

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