Tag Archives: analytics

Searching Online for Any Kind of Advice

19 May

As we know, virtually any kind of information can be found on the Internet. But, what is the best way to find the advice you seeking?

Check out this infographic.

A Personalized Self-Assessment Infographic

14 May

No matter the stage in your career (or life), it is imperative that you regularly do a self-assessment. In the infographic below, there is a 20-item self-assessment quiz for you to take.

How do YOU fare on this quiz? What activities do YOU need to modify to improve your career profile? How YOU can be happier? :-)

 

 

Netflix Is Streaming Ahead

11 May

In late 2011, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was widely criticized for the way in which he decided to separate the Netflix DVD-rental business from its Web streaming service. Some customers were confused by the new pricing strategy; others were angry. But, in this era, things sure turnaround quickly.

In the most recent issue of Businessweek, Reed Hastings is on the cover, with the caption: “The Man Who Ate the Internet” (a title bestowed because of the amount of bandwidth consumed by Netflix and it customers).

As Ashlee Vance writes: “On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at around 10 P.M. in each time zone, at which point a chart of Internet consumption looks like a python that swallowed a cow. By midnight Pacific time, streaming volume falls off dramatically.”

Click Hastings’ photo to read more.
 

Photo by Bryce Duffy

 

Making a Web Site Better

10 May

Check out this infographic which highlights some things that some Web sites do wrong.

 

Monetizing YouTube?

7 May

One of the big challenges for social media companies is generating significant revenues and meaningful profits. With this in mind, YouTube is always on the look out for new revenue streams. Here is the latest idea. What do you think about it?

As reported by Brian Stelter for the New York Times: “YouTube this week will announce a plan to let some video makers charge a monthly subscription, according to people with knowledge of the plan. The overwhelming majority of videos on YouTube, a unit of Google, will remain free to all, but the plan will let the company’s partners try out a second source of revenue, analogous to the flexible pay walls that some newspapers and magazines have adopted. There will be subscription channels for children’s programming, entertainment, music, and many other topic areas, according to the people with knowledge of the plan, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they had been asked by YouTube not to comment publicly yet. Some channels will cost as little as $1.99 a month. These won’t be channels in the television sense of the term; rather, they will consist of libraries of videos on demand, much like the thousands of free channels already on YouTube. Some of the video makers who have worked with YouTube on the subscription option want to convert existing fans to paying customers; others hope to distinguish themselves by selling archives of old TV episodes.”

Click the image to read more.

Photo by Philip Montgomery for YouTube

 

 

 

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