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AI Should Augment Your Team, Not Replace Them

AI Should Augment Your Team, Not Replace Them

“AI will not replace your job. Someone who knows how to use AI will.” Despite a few examples to the contrary, I have found through…

Content Creation In The Time Of Corona

Content Creation In The Time Of Corona

In this time of COVID-19, the sheer act of creating and monetizing video content is difficult and becoming harder. Most traditional productions have shut down, and…

Battling Depression from the C-Suite

Battling Depression from the C-Suite

For most of his life, Paul Greenberg suffered from severe depression — depression so bad that he had near constant thoughts of suicide from the age of…

My Struggle With Depression

My Struggle With Depression

I wrote an article for The Hollywood Reporter about my struggle with my depression and how I finally conquered it. Here is the beginning: When…

When You're Finished Changing, You're Finished

When You’re Finished Changing, You’re Finished

No, Facebook doesn’t decide whether Internet comedy lives or dies. This week, an article in Splitsider featured an interview with a comedy writer who had…

Three Essential Ways To Manage People Through Change

Three Essential Ways To Manage People Through Change

In one of the many great lines in the detective novel The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler writes, “To say goodbye is to die a little.”…

Three Critical Changes Businesses Need To Manage

Three Critical Changes Businesses Need To Manage

Today, we are seeing unprecedented, rapid changes in — among other things — technology, audience demographics, and the competitive landscape. These three elements in particular…

Suit The Content To The Platform And The Platform To The Content

Suit The Content To The Platform And The Platform To The Content

The video companies who thrive in the next five years will be the ones who truly understand how to create content for multiple platforms and…

All Business Is Personal

All Business Is Personal

Modern-day business is built on the theories of economics, a central tenet of which is that people behave in a logical and straightforward manner. Unfortunately, nothing could…

How Media Companies Can Win At Dark Social

How Media Companies Can Win At Dark Social

How does content spread from user to user? Understanding how audiences find articles, videos, GIFs, etc. is a critical mission for publishers who live and die…

Our Answer To Ad Blockers

Our Answer To Ad Blockers

UPDATED 9/17: As part of iOS 9, Apple has released built-in ad blocking capability. This feature has — understandably — spread deep concern throughout the media world….

Creating Work-Life Balance For Your Team Is Difficult But Vital

Creating Work-Life Balance For Your Team Is Difficult But Vital

“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost Unfortunately, even the…

Distributors Are Smart To Become Content Producers

Distributors Are Smart To Become Content Producers

Snapchat took another step toward diversifying its business model recently, as the technology platform company hired Sean Mills to head up their original video programming efforts…

Interview On Fox Business: Discussion Of Twitter And Facebook [VIDEO]

Interview On Fox Business: Discussion Of Twitter And Facebook [VIDEO]

Appearance on Fox Business with host Deirdre Bolton to discuss Meerkat, Periscope and Facebook’s new messenger.

Riding Above The Platforms

Riding Above The Platforms

A recent groundswell of opinion has claimed that modern-day media companies need to change the way in which they distribute their content. According to some…

The Economics Of Trust

The Economics Of Trust

We just changed the time-off policy at Nylon to give everyone unlimited vacation and sick days. I am convinced that this will not only raise morale…

Interview on Fox Business: Sony Hacking People Releasing Stolen Emails? [VIDEO]

Interview on Fox Business: Sony Hacking People Releasing Stolen Emails? [VIDEO]

Appearance on Fox Business with host Deirdre Bolton to discuss Sony’s hacking crisis as well as CollegeHumor going up for sale.

Millennials Are Important, But Watch Out For Gen Z

Millennials Are Important, But Watch Out For Gen Z

Did you just update your entire marketing strategy to ensure you were properly focused on the Millennial generation? If so, that’s unfortunate, since it’s now…

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