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MIP Cancun on Your Mind

It’s time to think about MIP Cancun. Yes, MIPCOM has only just ended, but in order to make the most out the Central American TV market, producers, distributors, and content (…)

By |October 28th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

A Bright Day for MIPCOM

What about MIPCOM has changed since pre-pandemic days? Well, this time around the C exhibition area along the Croisette is not carpeted. And these days there are fewer participants. In (…)

By |October 23rd, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

MIPCOM: Hollywood in Cannes

MIPCOM 2024 returned to the MIPCOM of yesteryear (2019, to be exact, before the pandemic), but now its official name is “MIPCOM Cannes.” This move was perhaps meant to appease (…)

By |October 21st, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

MIA Finding Its Int’l Role

MIA, the Italian Audiovisual Market, is back in Rome for its 10th edition, which is being held October 14-18 at Palazzo Barberini, which houses Cinema Barberini. However, it has been (…)

By |October 16th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The Devolution from Tweeted to Xsed

In 1961, people used to say, “Let’s Twist Again.” In 2006, they said, “Let’s tweet again.” And in 2022, people were supposed to start saying, “Let’s X again.”

People “Google.” They (…)

By |October 14th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

VideoAge’s October Issue to Sow Seeds

The cover stories alone should spike interest in VideoAge‘s October Issue, published (in both print and digital) in conjunction with MIPCOM. Articles include a piece on American TV executive Sean (…)

By |October 10th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Billionaires Don’t Have Anything to Prove

By Dom Serafini

Years ago, the very rich didn’t have to prove anything to anyone. Today, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “How the Super-Rich Signal Their Wealth to (…)

By |October 7th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Getting Ready For AFM

The American Film Market (AFM) is moving out of the Los Angeles area and heading to Las Vegas for its 2024 event, which will be held Novembers 5-10, 2024, (…)

By |October 3rd, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Lessons in Leadership

In its April 2024 Issue, VideoAge wrote about corporate incompetence in a “My2¢” editorial. Then, on September 16, 2024, in its “The New Workplace” report, The Wall Street Journal ran (…)

By |September 30th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

NAB New York’s U.S. Election Tools

At the upcoming annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in New York City — to be held October 8-10, 2024, at its traditional Javits Center venue — the Washington (…)

By |September 26th, 2024|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments