Wired y los tres tipos de "libertad"
Hace un rato que las páginas web de los principales medios del mundo (que han proyectado su dominio editorial en la red) han bajado la potencialidad de sus ganancias. Y por supuesto, como toda eventual crisis de identidad virtual, comienzan a aparecer las teorías. Jeff Jarvis, columnista de The Guardian, se preguntaba el porqué los medios tradicionales no simplemente le entregan la administración de sus sitios a Google, que maneja mejor los ingresos publicitarios y ha mostrado ser exitoso en la ingeniería de estructuras de contenido, como Blogger. Pero hay otra pregunta que deben hacerse los medios: cómo enfrentarán un mundo que apunta a liberalizar por completo su principal activo (los contenidos) y de qué modo se marcará la diferencia con la competencia sin convertir los atributos en costos innecesarios para las empresas periodísticas. Wired cumple 15 años y su editor Chris Anderson insiste en su blog que la clave está en que el requerimiento de unos pocos, dispuestos a pagar por un premium, permitirá que otros muchos tengan los productos gratis. El desafío, entonces, está en entender qué tipo de productos (y servicios) periodísticos son y serán claves para la audiencias y por cuáles estarán dispuestos a pagar. O si simplemente el avisaje seguirá siendo la única vía libre para los medios. A estas alturas un escenario de alto riesgo. En el siguiente artículo, Anderson hace sus apuestas.
Por Chris Anderson
There are at least three classes of free:
The first is the use of "free" as a marketing gimmick: "buy one, get one free", "free with purchase", "free phone if you commit to the two-year service plan", etc. All basically cross-subsidies or loss leaders--sooner or later you'll pay. I suspect that there isn't an industry that doesn't use this one way or another. There's no new economic model there and it's totally impossible to quantify, but arguably it touches every bit of the entire consumer economy itself, which is to say trillions of dollars a year. And thus it's a meaningless number. So I'll move on...
The second form of free is the "three-party market", which is to say the world of advertising-supported free media. That's most radio and broadcast television, most web media, and the proliferation of free print publications, from newspapers to "controlled circulation" magazines. For the top 100 US media firms alone, in 2006 radio and TV (not including cable) advertising revenues were $45 billion.
Online, almost all media companies make their offerings free and ad-supported, as do many non-media companies such as Google, so I'll include the entire online ad market in the "paying for content to be free to consumers" category. That's another $21-$25 billion. Free paper newspapers and magazine are probably a billion more, and there are no doubt some other smaller categories I'm omitting and a lot of independents not included in the numbers above. Let's call the total of offline and online ad-driven content and services $80-$100 billion.
Por Chris Anderson
There are at least three classes of free:
The first is the use of "free" as a marketing gimmick: "buy one, get one free", "free with purchase", "free phone if you commit to the two-year service plan", etc. All basically cross-subsidies or loss leaders--sooner or later you'll pay. I suspect that there isn't an industry that doesn't use this one way or another. There's no new economic model there and it's totally impossible to quantify, but arguably it touches every bit of the entire consumer economy itself, which is to say trillions of dollars a year. And thus it's a meaningless number. So I'll move on...
The second form of free is the "three-party market", which is to say the world of advertising-supported free media. That's most radio and broadcast television, most web media, and the proliferation of free print publications, from newspapers to "controlled circulation" magazines. For the top 100 US media firms alone, in 2006 radio and TV (not including cable) advertising revenues were $45 billion.
Online, almost all media companies make their offerings free and ad-supported, as do many non-media companies such as Google, so I'll include the entire online ad market in the "paying for content to be free to consumers" category. That's another $21-$25 billion. Free paper newspapers and magazine are probably a billion more, and there are no doubt some other smaller categories I'm omitting and a lot of independents not included in the numbers above. Let's call the total of offline and online ad-driven content and services $80-$100 billion.
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