Monthly Archives: August 2016

Sorry, Uber. Social Data Validates The Lyft Growth Story And Valuation Demands

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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen a lot of media coverage of Uber and Lyft – more than usual.  Uber announced it is rolling out self-driving cars in Boston, and we learned that the State of Massachusetts is imposing a “taxi-tax”, giving the revenue to cab companies on the defensive.   Lyft decided to shop itself around, but apparently had trouble finding a buyer for the company at the price they wanted.

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Increase Focus On Alternative Streaming Media For MTV?

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Viacom‘s MTV is facing a significant decline in its TV viewership. Its erstwhile popular MTV Video Music Awards broadcast saw a 34% drop in viewership this year, drawing an audience of 6.5 million viewers on television. However, online viewership of the program increased significantly from 4.4 million streams on Facebook last year to 45.8 million streams this year. Viacom earns a significant amount of its revenues from advertisements on traditional TV and while the increase in streaming views indicates that the popularity of video music awards is still high, users preference for alternative modes of viewership will impact Viacom’s revenues negatively. We believe as viewing preferences of consumers change, a strategy to monetize MTV’s content differently can help Viacom to drive revenues in the long term.

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‘Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV’ Is A Beautiful Mess

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Kingslaive Final Fantasy XV is arguably one of the most stunning films you might ever see. The art direction and the quality of CG are second to none. The director Tekeshi Nozue and writer Kazushige Nojima are clearly skilled at world building, taking you into a world that seems completely alien from our own, but feels genuinely real. It is difficult to get used to just how beautiful every frame of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV is, in fact it is a bit distracting because there are genuine moments that look completely real. Kingsglaive is unique and a achievement, but it stumbles in three key ways that detract from the over all film. The first is that the acting is all over the place, seeing Sean Bean and Lena Hedley act is worth the price of admission, they both ground you in the world immediately, however the rest of the cast has a great deal of difficulty reaching these same standards in acting. The female characters in the film are portrayed as largely, if not entirely helpless during the entire story which is a bit of problem because it renders them as uninteresting set pieces.

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