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Why the Great Indian Media Companies will Fail on the Internet…..
Since my move to India in 2004, I have worked with several of the Telecom and Media giants in India at a very strategic level and spent a year at Yahoo! India after the Zimbra acquisition. Over time my belief that the Online Media industry in India is in big trouble has been reinforced time and again. Every single meeting I have had with stalwarts in the Media space continue to reinforce my beliefs as I can see the “cluelessness” in their minds about the online space. The big three tend to believe that their brand will carry them through the digital era and they refuse to believe that powerhouses in the worldwide Print industry have fallen prey to the smaller, nimble highly technology savvy digital companies which is what will happen in India if they fail to wake up from their slumber. While these large media companies continue to invest in their digital businesses heavily the results are shoddy. Even the true Internet players from the early days of the Internet era in India like Rediff and Sify continue to underwhelm the market with poor product offerings and declining ad sales. Let us take a closer look at the digital industry in India: Read the rest of this entry »
Will the Indian Newspaper Industry follow its US counterparts?
Having worked very closely with one of India’s largest Media houses that owns the most distributed English daily and who operates an Internet Business, I can say with confidence that the Indian News Printing Business is headed in the same direction as the US newspaper business – down the deathward spiral 
Marc Andreesen has a very nice entry in his blog titled Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch
More reading on this topic at
- http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/
- The last newspaper generation
- Farewell to Print
- Let’s screw up the Entire Internet to save Newspapers
I am a straight shooter and my insights into this business is purely based on my real world experience working with companies in this line of business. The reasons I believe that the Indian Newspaper business will become irrelevant are:
