The statistics above are amazing enough in their own right but when you consider as most of these companies are less than five years old and Facebook is the grandfather being a worldly 10 years old. The advent of the e-commerce/ digital businesses has removed or...
In February I wrote about the impending battle of the SVOD players. Netflix has finally entered the market so it is time to sit back and watch how it plays out. Recently a friend has asked me a couple of questions about these services 1) Which one should he choose...
There are many ways to assess a new business opportunity, be it EBITDA ,NPV, ROI etc, with the majority of formal measures being based on financial metrics. I learned an alternative approach as I was presenting a business case to the Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao...
We all know about Uber the hottest startup disrupting the taxi industry around the world. But for those that don’t Uber is a new taxi app, (actually for legal reasons it is actually a ride sharing app) that is taking over the world. The app connects passengers with...
It is going to be a very interesting time for subscription video on demand (SVOD) services over the next twelve to eighteen months as the market has moved from one player (Quickflix) to four (Quickflix, Netflix, Lightbox and Neon) in the space of six months. Each of...
