Future Forward

FuFWD: 2018 Year In Review / #0056

2018 – in Review. News. Tech. Politics. Automation. Social Media. Web Video. Facebook. Amazon. Netflix. Winners and Losers. A look back this week on Future Forward. I’m Steve Rosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose, let’s Launch.

The Year In Review:

1. News.

Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business from 2018

2. Automation

3. Tech and Politics.

4. Amazon vs. Netflix – Game On:

Netflix vs Disney: A Year of Warfare Likely Will Escalate In 2019

5. Facebook

6. NYC becomes a Tech Hub (amazon / google)

7. In Memoriam

Today: Video Is Eating the Web. Really. Netflix is 15% of all Internet Traffic. And as YouTube’s 14th Birthday approaches, it’s feeling growing pains. Today – FutureForward unpacks Video. I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum… let’s Launch.

Rundown:

Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide (Study)

YouTube? The Power and Peril of The Video Network:

How YouTube’s Year-in-Review ‘Rewind’ Video Set Off a Civil War

SR YouTube removed 58 million videos between July and September this year because they broke community guidelines. More than 7.8 million of those videos were taken down because they violated community guidelines. The other 50.2 million were taken down as YouTube removed 1.67 million channels.

YouTube removed 58 million videos in the latest quarter

Popular YouTube Streamer Promotes Channel That Publishes Anti-Semitic Content

PewDiePie’s ties to white supremacy spell serious trouble for the future of YouTube

Video Future: OTT vs. Cable?

Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast for First Time, FX Reports

Nielsen’s Q2 Audience Benchmark Shows How Connected Devices Are Reshaping Media

Nielsen’s Q2 Audience Benchmark Shows How Connected Devices Are Reshaping Media

Television is still the most dominant media, but more young adults are connecting via internet

Video Trends that don’t look like TV

TikTok, a Chinese Video App, Brings Fun Back to Social Media

Facebook Expands ‘Watch Party’ Video Co-Viewing to Users and Pages Worldwide

Vyng Hits $7 Million After Series A Funding, To Upgrade Generic Ringtones With Viral Videos

The Fuse Has been lit on digital media. It’s just a matter of time before it explodes.  How big a bang? How many digital companies are beyond saving? Today – The Media Meltdown – An Future Forward Look into the abyss 

The Media Meltdown

Mic / the story behind the story.

Mic shuts down, a victim of management hubris and Facebook’s pivot to video

Mic looking for investors amid cash woes

EVERYONE’S FOR SALE:

“EVERYONE’S FOR SALE”: A GENERATION OF DIGITAL-MEDIA DARLINGS PREPARES FOR A FRIGID WINTER

Founder’s Big Idea to Revive BuzzFeed’s Fortunes? A Merger With Rivals

Hard Times: Left-Wing New Media Look to Mergers, Paywalls, Selling Companies

Vice Devalued: Disney Writes Off $157 Million of Its Stake in Struggling Media Company

REMEMBERING AOL:

Verizon Confirms Oath CEO Tim Armstrong Will Leave at End of 2018

Verizon’s Oath Looks To Non-Advertising Revenue

Verizon’s Oath Looks To Non-Advertising Revenue; Apple Lax On App Enforcement?

The fallout from Tumblr’s porn ban

The Facebook / Conundrum

Have any spare change? Probably not – because if you’re like most of us, you’ve gone cashless. As credit cards and Apple pay turn dollars into digits – the world of money is changing. But is cashless good? What does it mean for the poor? And is it safe? Today, a special edition of Future Forward: The Future of Money.

-Has the Internet ruining our ability to read anything more than 140 characters?

-Video is Killing Reading: Nine in 10 consumers prefer visual content over text

-Social media is killing reading.

-Audio is killing reading. Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say

-Hope? Update on MEDIUM: Trying to reinvent the compact between readers and writers in the digital age.