Where Hollywood Sees Art, Silicon Valley Sees 'Bits & Bytes'; Who's Winning?
October, 02, 2012 11:01 am | Comments On #content, Hollywood, Media, Silicon Valley, The GrillWhere Hollywood sees art, Silicon Valley sees bits, bytes and data.
Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief and CEO of TheWrap, sparred with AllThingsD editor Kara Swisher at TheGrill conference Tuesday morning, over how Hollywood's former cash cow can help strike a balance with the platforms on which their content is viewed.
"[Hollywood types] suspect that Silicon Valley gives a lot of lip service to content, but they're just lying, they don't really," Waxman (below) said.
Swisher quickly countered that what Hollywood sees as antagonism is really apathy.
"Everything is data to most companies in Silicon Valley," the...
Read MoreFandango Launches Slate of Online Videos, Featuring Dave Karger (Exclusive)
October, 02, 2012 7:08 am | Comments On #Dave Karger, Fandango, MoviesFandango unveiled at new slate of original video series targeting movie fans on Tuesday.
The shows will feature Dave Karger, the awards show veteran that Fandango just lured over from Entertainment Weekly to be its chief correspondent and public face.
The three programs will focus on movie awards season, box office contenders and one program that will boast both A-List actors and below-the-line talent.
Also read: Former Disney Exec Paul Yanover Named President of Fandango
"Fandango users are the purest film fans out there," Karger told TheWrap....
Read MoreThe Grill: Hollywood's Finest at the Opening Cocktail Party (Photos)
October, 01, 2012 10:47 pm | Comments On #TheGrill 2012, the third annual conference from TheWrap, brings together the most innovative thinkers and commanding voices at the intersection of entertainment, media and technology. Held at the London West Hollywood Hotel, Oct. 1-2, this year's lineup boasts names like Judd Apatow, Irving Azoff, Seth MacFarlane, Ted Sarandos and John Skipper.
(Photos by Jonathan Alcorn)
Read MoreThanks to Twitter, Hollywood and Silicon Valley Are Finally Working Together
October, 01, 2012 10:46 pm | Comments On #Chris Sacca, Jeff Jordan, Media, Movies, technology, The Grill, twitterThe war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley may finally be cooling off, two of the biggest investors in the technology industry said Monday night at the opening of TheGrill, the annual media conference put on by TheWrap.
Despite fierce disagreements between media giants and tech titans about the threat of issues like online piracy, there is at least a greater understanding of how to be more collaborative when it comes to making new platforms like Twitter pay off.
Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital and an investor in Twitter, Kickstarter and Instagram, noted that the conversations he has been having with entertainment industry executives has changed in the last five...
Chris Sacca and Jeff Jordan Talk Smart Venture Capitalism at TheGrill (Video)
October, 01, 2012 10:26 pm | Comments On #Amazon, Google, Hollywood, Media, The Grill, TheGrill videoAlexander Ljung at TheGrill: The Many Diverse Ways to Sound Off on the Web (Video)
September, 23, 2011 2:10 pm | Comments On #alexander ljung, grill video, Media, media video, soundcloud, TheGrill, Thegrill 2011Alexander Ljung, the co-founder of innovative audio-sharing platform SoundCloud, took part in TheGrill on Tuesday and explained the multitude of uses for his service.
Distinguishing SoundCloud from music-centric web offerings, Ljung rattled off just a few of the ways that people can sound off with his brainchild.
''As much as YouTube is for video, we are for sound," Ljung offered. "So that could be some of our users like 50 Cent or Madonna or Foo Fighters putting up new music that they've made and that they want to share across the web, or it could be somebody recording their baby's first words with one of our mobile applications. I do these little voice updates -- little diary notes of what's happening in my life and what I'm thinking about."
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Read MoreContent Execs at TheGrill: The Future Is in the Cloud (Video)
September, 22, 2011 5:01 pm | Comments On #grill video, Jim Lanzone, john calkins, Media, media video, TheGrill, thegrill201, Thomas GeweckeAt TheGrill conference on Tuesday, Sony's John Calkins, Warner Bros.' Thomas Gewecke and CBS' Jim Lanzone weight in on where the notion of where content ownership is heading in this increasingly digital age.
The trio's conclusion? It's heading for the clouds.
As Gewecke sees it, consumers are craving a system that allows them to acquire, store and keep track of their content in the simplest form possible -- and the solution resides in a cloud-based system.
"What we're trying to do is make it as simple as possible," Gewecke said. "The research suggests that the consumers are confused about how to make ownership work in this digital age. We want to make it really, really simple so that it's easier to go find the movies you want."
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Read MoreDan Rosensweig at TheGrill: Provide Instant Gratification, or Die (Video)
September, 22, 2011 4:28 pm | Comments On #chegg, dan rosensweig, grill video, Media, media video, TheGrill, thegrill2011The way Dan Rosensweig, the CEO of textbook-rental site Chegg, sees it, kids these days are a bunch of instant-gratification junkies who expect the world to be dropped at their laptop. And if you have a business that's targeted toward them, you'd better get used to it.
Rosensweig was one of many high-profile participants to take part in TheGrill on Tuesday. Among the many points he emphasized to the assemblage: That if you don't give the kids what they want, you might as well put up a "Going Out of Business" sign now.
"[The young consumers of today have] always been used to getting what they want, when they want it, where they want it and how they want it," Rosensweig asserted. "The joke I always make is that I grew up in a generation where you paid for music and water was free. This generation, they believe that they should have...
Read MorePandora's Westergren at TheGrill: Is Tour Promotion Next? (Video)
September, 22, 2011 2:11 pm | Comments On #grill video, Media, media video, pandora radio, TheGrill, Thegrill 2011, tim westergrenWant to find out when a musical artist you like is coming to town? Pandora will tell you.
While the online music service has spent the last decade attempting to transform music radio, it could also be instrumental in revolutionizing another key part of the music industry – the touring business --co-founder Tim Westergren said on Tuesday at TheGrill, TheWrap’s annual media conference.
Because of the amount of information Pandora collects about its users – registering requires revealing your gender, age and zip code – it can tell its customers when their favorite artists are playing near them.
“That is a recipe for solving, in my opinion, what is the most important or second most important challenge for musicians – how to get people to come see you play live,” Westergren told moderator, TheWrap's Brent Lang, on stage...
Read MoreArianna Huffington at TheGrill: Growth Not Waylaid by AOL Troubles (Video)
September, 22, 2011 1:00 pm | Comments On #Arianna Huffington, grill video, Media, media video, TheGrill, Thegrill 2011AOL isn’t close to shuttering Patch, and don’t look for it to merge with Yahoo anytime soon. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington had to go, and the acquisition of Huffington Post by AOL will be a long-term success, said Arianna Huffington on Tuesday.
The president and editor in chief of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group dismissed questions over AOL's quarterly losses and traffic decline since the merger with HuffPo seven months ago. She said the site was working successfully to grow as a media company. And the merger hasn't hurt, she said.
“The merger has actually had the opposite effect,” she said, at TheWrap's media-leadership conference, TheGrill, at Beverly Hills’ SLS Hotel. She pointed to HuffPo's rise in traffic and expansion in editorial categories.
“Since the integration, the Huffington Post has...
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