Newsline at The Future of Media conference in New York

Newsline is currently attending the Ignition: Future of Media conference in New York. The theme is “The Money is Back”.

We are living in a time of massive media disruption and opportunity. The business models and companies that have ruled the media world for the past half century are under attack and new companies have come out of nowhere to capture the time and attention of global media consumers.

Simultaneously, the definition of “media” is expanding to include social, local, mobile, games, real-time communication and sharing, and data. The line between information, entertainment, advice, and business is blurring.

In the past year, major new media companies such as Facebook, Pandora, Linkedin, Zynga, Twitter and Groupon have hit meteoric numbers in users, revenue, or both, by linking their core offering to media platforms or products. Angel and private equity investors are funding start-ups that promise to curate, produce, predict, and customize media. The IPO market is hot again. Meanwhile, media-intensive hardware is galloping ahead, led by the iPad, tablets, and ever sophisticated mobile devices.

Read Newsline’s views next week.