Anthony DiClemente

Time to Stoke Those Kindle Fire Sales Estimates

Peter Kafka in Media on January 9 at 3:30 am PT

Some 5.5 million in Q4, says Barclays. By the way: Has anyone seen one of these in the wild?

If YouTube Is Doing $1.6 Billion a Year, Why Does It Need Hollywood?

Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

A new guesstimate gives Google’s video site a staggering 80 percent of the Web’s video revenue. So if that’s true, why chase “channels”?

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A More Modest Amazon Tablet Guess: Two Million in 2011

Peter Kafka in Mobile on September 13, 2011 at 3:34 am PT

Last month, Forrester started the bidding on Amazon tablet predictions and guessed that Jeff Bezos could move three to five million by the end of this year. Today Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente offers a more modest forecast: He thinks Amazon will sell two million seven-inch Android tablets this year. But he thinks that number will jump to 6.4 million in 2012, and that Amazon will also sell another 1.5 million units of a 10-inch model he predicts will show up next year. Context: Barclays predicts Apple will sell 48.7 million iPads in 2012.

Hey, Guess What Happens to Advertising if the Economy Tanks

Peter Kafka in Media on September 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Here’s some unpleasant deja vu: Summer’s over, the economy is wobbling, and analysts are starting to hack away at advertising forecasts.

Amazon Pulls a Netflix, Adds (Old) CBS Shows

Peter Kafka in Media on July 20, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

Just about a carbon copy of a deal the network struck with Netflix earlier this year: Old shows like “Medium,” and really old shows like “Cheers,” but nothing that’s on TV now.

Reed Hastings Doesn’t Want You To Pay More For Netflix. He Wants You To Stop Using DVDs.

Peter Kafka in Media on July 13, 2011 at 1:35 pm PT

The video service raised its prices by 60 percent yesterday. But it doesn’t expect most of you to pay up — it’s hoping you spend less, and stop using discs.

Murdoch: We're Not Giving Up on MySpace Yet

Peter Kafka in Media on August 4, 2010 at 2:54 pm PT

The company’s mobile unit, though, is formally for sale.

CBS' Comcast Deal Clears the Deck for Hulu. Maybe Apple, Too.

Peter Kafka in Media on August 2, 2010 at 3:15 pm PT

The 10-year carriage deal that CBS and Comcast announced today is all about good old fashioned TV, delivered via cable pipes, to be consumed on your 42-inch plasma. But the deal could also give Les Moonves and company the ability to move forward on less conventional Web TV deals, too.