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What We Do
Since 1996, the media consulting firm of Digital Deliverance has provided publishers and broadcasters with strategic reviews and advice about how to profitably adapt to the remarkable changes that New Media have brought to them and their consumers.
Over the years, the firm's clients have include The New York Times, News Corporation, The Irish Times of Dublin, Dagbladet of Oslo, The Mail & Guardian of Johannesburg, Advance Publications, Presspoint, The Boston Herald, Critical Mention, MediaNews Group, New Century Network, the Media Development Loan Fund, PR Newswire, the National Cancer Institutes, and scores of other media or firms adapt to New Media.
The managing partner of Digital Deliverance is Vin Crosbie, an Adjunct Professor of Multimedia Photography & Design and the Senior Consultant on Curricula and Social and New Media at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication.
Digital Deliverance is incorporated as a limited liability company in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
Recent Speaking Engagements
Keynoted the fifth annual Personalize Media conference, held this year on June 21-22, 2011, Boulder, Colorado.
The speaker of the Singapore Press Holdings Foundation annual Media Lecture, Drama Centre, National Library, Singapore, July 14, 2010.
The co-chair and co-moderator of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication's Monetizing Online Business Conference, New York City, June 24-25, 2010.
The speaker of the Twelfth Annual Pearl A. and Albert E. Mall Annual Lecture, Binghamton University School of Education, Binghamton, New York, May 26, 2010.
A speaker and co-moderator at the Media Development Loan Fund Biennial Media Forum, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 14-15, 2010.
A speaker at the East Asian Institute for Media Management and Transformation Center's International Conference on Business of Emerging Media, Tsinghua University, Beijing, April 21-22, 2010.
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TimesSelect No Longer $elective
Posted on September 18, 2007 | No CommentsThe New York Times Company attempts sleight-of-hand in its announcement ending its experiment at charging for online access to its Opinion section and archives. -
Supply & Demand and 'Unpackaging' on Newspaper Content Online
Posted on May 16, 2007 | No CommentsWhy news publications that withold some content from online, charge for 'premium' online content, or give access to some online content only to print subscribers are not only failing to stem their print circulation erosion but also reducing their sites' online growth and potential. -
The Roles of Newsstands, Archives, and Virtual Newsrooms
Posted on October 17, 2006 | No CommentsWhat will be the future roles of newsstands, news agents, archives, and newsrooms? -
Free versus Fee: The Print Battle in Baltimore
Posted on April 5, 2006 | No CommentsWhy the print newspaper battle that began today in Baltimore is a test case for paid content and the relative value of newspaper news in the U.S., in print or online -
Benchmarking Online Newspaper Revenues
Posted on February 20, 2006 | No CommentsI’m in Paris where later this week I’ll be representing my friend Gordon Borrell‘s firm at the World Association of Newspapers’ Advertising Conference and be one of the conference’s speakers about online revenues. That’s one reason why I’ll be missing the Newspaper Association of America’s Connections conference about online newspapers, which is underway in Orlando (where a section of of... -
Editorials as Paid Content? Expert Witness about Newspaper Vending Boxes?
Posted on March 18, 2005 | No CommentsMy company’s business is the busiest it’s been since the height of the dot.com boom in 1999, which is another way to say that we’re swamped. Or maybe swamped isn’t an apt verb because there’s no muck involved. The work onsite for my major client is growing by leaps and bounds. The online video news and video search sector of... -
Why I’m at Critical Mention
Posted on February 17, 2005 | No CommentsEvery few years in new media, I find a consulting client whose business plan, product or service, and managers are refreshingly sharp, competent, and unusually opportune. In those rare cases, and particularly if it’s a startup venture, I’ll trade some of Digital Deliverance’s consulting fees for deferred compensation or future equity in the venture because I’m confident of its potential.... -
Talbott Leaves Editorship of Now Profitable Salon
Posted on February 10, 2005 | No CommentsCongratulations to David Talbott, who weathered the storm of the dot.com bust and guided his baby Salon.com to profitability. The New York Times today reports (registration site) that he’s now stepping down as its editor-in-chief but retaining the title of chairman. He’ll be replaced as editor by Joan Walsh, his longtime deputy. Salon will also announce its first profitable quarter,... -
Online Video Increased 80%, radio 76%, in 2004
Posted on February 1, 2005 | 1 CommentAccuStream iMedia Research reports that the number of video streams online increased by more than 80 percent last year, for a total of 14.2 billion streams. Almost 80 percent of those streams were broadband (defined as 100 Kbps or higher). One of the four factors cited for the growing number of video streams is that the number of broadband homes... -
OK, So What Will Be A Good Use of RSS for News Publishers?
Posted on December 14, 2004 | 5 Comments[UPDATE: Some blogs which have linked to this item call it my vision of the newspaper of 2010. Calling it that is inaccurate. I believe that e-paper devices will be in common use by 2010 and that consumers will use these device for reading books, magazines, business reports, grocery lists, homework, etc. But whether or not the newspapers industry will... -
Digital Newspaper Strategies at the Financial Times
Posted on December 13, 2004 | No CommentsA month ago, I’d mentioned Nigel Pocklington‘s appointment to the newly created role of director of online publishing for the Financial Times. From London, Kieren McCarthy points me to an article he wrote today in The Independent about Pocklington’s role at FT.com and thoughts about paid content and also publishing to handheld mobile devices. This good article also quotes the... -
U.S. Newspaper Web Sites That Charge for Access
Posted on December 8, 2004 | No CommentsDuring my absence last month, a professor of journalism e-mailed me to review and correct his list of U.S. newspaper websites that charge for access. I do have a master list of daily newspapers throughout the world that charge for access, but I provide that information only to my consulting clients. Nevertheless, here is a quick list of the U.S.... -
I'm Signing Off ClickZ
Posted on October 19, 2004 | No CommentsDuring the past 30 months for JupiterMedia’s ClickZ online marketing information site, I’ve written 39 columns about charging for online content. Writing them has been fun. The $100 honorarium JupiterMedia has paid me for each has bought some nice dinners. But I’ll no longer be writing more columns for JupiterMedia (my last column was earlier this month, about the New... -
US Magazine to Launch Free/Paid SMS Celebrity News Service
Posted on October 13, 2004 | No CommentsUS Magazine later this month will launch a subscription SMS service for celebrity junkies, reports Technology Marketing magazine. US is targeting this service at educated, relatively affluent, North American women with an average age of 32 who live in metropolitan areas. Called ‘US to the Minute’, the text messaging service will send breaking entertainment news headlines free of charge to... -
Monitoring the Health of Paid Content for Physicians
Posted on October 13, 2004 | No CommentsMy latest column for Jupitermedia’s marketing site ClickZ is online. It examines how the New England Journal of Medicine is publishing paid online content. My thanks to the quite competent Kent Anderson of NEJM and to my clients, the trustees of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, who introduced me to him. A reader this morning phoned me to...