A surprise viral hit from Netflix, who released the below internal corporate culture document for sharing, and has been blogged retweeted by many media industry types.
It is worth a look both as a great way to convey a lot of information, and as an insight into one of the fastest growing companies in the US.
Hello one and all,
‘Tis been a week of mistakenly trying to get money back from wounded soldiers and the sad news of Mr. Robson’s death. But enough of that, here’s some news of a slight media persuasion.
Sometimes you can’t make it on your own
Especially if you’re trying to take on the company that ‘does no evil’ (except when it harms the bottom line). Meaning Yahoo and Microsoft are buddying up to take a bigger slice of the search pie.
Time spent online starting to level off
Is this because faster connection speeds are enabling us to complete tasks more efficiently, or have we reached saturation point?
The candle problem
and having the confidence to fail. Apparently the possibility of financial reward for solving a problem can actually hinder your ability to solve said problem. Interesting when you think about it in relation to the banking crisis, bonus culture etc etc. and perhaps we should all embrace failure a little bit more…
Twitter story of the week!
or should I stay stories. Philip Hughes got in trouble for tweeting news of being dropped before the official announcement (http://tr.im/uTrF) and surely sign that Twitter has reached critical mass is the news that Darren Bent has got in trouble with Tottenham for tweeting his frustration about his proposed move to Sunderland (http://tr.im/uTGR). Will we increasingly be getting our celeb news from the celebs themselves? Removing the need for some hack to write it up?
And finally…
if Twitter was a 100 people
ooooh Alice in Wonderland trailer
ooooh new Tron trailer
Have a grand weekend.
Ta,
Ben
Hello one and all,
‘Tis been a week of lunar gazing and debate about rich 15 year old interns. But enough of all that. Here’s some media themed news, sort of.
Britain’s a closed shop
With only America (land of the ‘dream’ let’s not forget) having lower social mobility rates than us. So whilst we worry about the validity of a 15 year old’s thoughts on media, we’re probably missing the wider point. Read this.
Ignoring the old
Interesting little post on advertising’s obsession with youth – ignoring the fact that most ‘western’ populations are ageing.
Everyone uses social networks
The proof can be found in this report from Comscore
Dairy Milk goes Fairtrade
Which is all well and good until you consider the real business reasons behind the change – that the Fairtrade price is currently below the market trading price for cocoa
And finally
Check out this overly indulgent, creative love-in of an ad.
Nirvana vs Rick
Fish tanks are relaxing…
and as a special treat, check out the Alice in Wonderland trailer, looks fantastic!
Have a grand weekend!
Ta,
Ben
Hello one and all,
‘Tis been a week of hyped Scottish sportsmen and fallout from you know who dying. But enough of that, here’s some media(ish) news…
Iran gets 2m+ tweets
check out the in depth stats. Interesting stuff
Pirate Bay sold
making the creators perhaps the biggest sellouts in ‘alternative’ history no? After all weren’t they fighting for everything to be free?
Free
speaking of Free, the much anticipated book of the same name is about to come out. Have a read of Malcolm Gladwell’s review in the New Yorker, he’s not entirely positive. Probably not enough analogies of basketball teams / something else random for his liking
Some thoughts on China
really interesting piece here on not only the economic impact that the rise of China will have, but the cultural one as well. Anyone for a little Confucius?
And finally…
wonderful use of Twitter data here – showing people tweeting ‘just landed’ from around the world
some very weird ads from Microsoft featuring Dean ‘new adventures of Superman’ Cain – remember him?
only just seen this, aren’t little kids funny…
Have a great weekend one and all
Cheers,
Ben
see what i did there – a little couplet for y’all
so, i’ve been away sunning myself in meeting rooms, but i’m back and i’m getting down on a change agents tack:
they are clever, those harvard blog people and they even quote proust . . . which ticks my pretentious literary comment box and all
walsy and i like this geeza’s visualisation (we want adobe illustrator not ppt) . . . but more concretely there is absolutely this coming movement – moving from media advice to business advice . . .
and i’m really just bandwagoning here, but behavioural economics, rory sutherland, using human understanding to business advantage – ain’t that what we do ?
this is the and finally piece – i just think its hilarious – and probably ended up with a few cyclists in the canal . . .
and remember, if you can’t be careful out there, smile while you’re being dangerous 
peace