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The Piracy Pivot – A new heading for copyright enforcement? 7 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
Pretty much seven years ago to the month, Zeitgeist was putting the finishing touches to his Master’s dissertation. It centered on intellectual property rights, and the infringement of those rights by...
The next ‘Ishtar’: Is the film industry nearing “implosion”? 5 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
“A legendary disaster… a cascade of dysfunction”; can the film industry avoid future Ishtars? This post serves as a companion piece and extended update to our previous article on rethinking film indu...
The jaws of death – Rethinking film industry strategy 14 Jul 2013 | 10:17 pm
Steven Spielberg on-set for “Jaws”. The Leviathan gave birth to the summer blockbuster This past week, Zeitgeist had the pleasure of enjoying a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing...
Selling Luxury in 2013 – Does brand education lead to monetisation? 20 Jun 2013 | 10:50 am
At Cannes Lions tomorrow, Burberry’s Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey will ask “What if ads didn’t have to look or feel like ads?”. In a guest post, Chloé Hajnal-Corob writes about how luxury...
Before and after PRISM – On liberty in a digital age 16 Jun 2013 | 03:50 pm
First aired on PBS in 1985, filmmaker Ken Burns’ documentary on the Statue of Liberty was on Zeitgeist’s TiVo watch list this weekend. It’s really quite staggering to note how issues being discussed t...
The New News – Monetising Journalism in 2013 27 May 2013 | 08:23 pm
“What the Internet has done is made a million sources of information available. It’s only a click away… The Internet has disrupted many industries. The newspaper business has been destroyed. It’s begi...
The Big Data Fallacy 18 May 2013 | 02:35 pm
The latest issue of Foreign Affairs features the cover article “The Rise of Big Data” by Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenburger, which mostly details some of the incredible ways companies like U...
The Power of Quid Pro Quo 13 May 2013 | 09:07 pm
Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived about two and a half thousand years ago. His teachings on subjects like respect, honesty, education and the importance of strong family bonds...
Microsoft’s ‘New Coke’ moment – On knowing when your customer is dissatisfied 9 May 2013 | 01:26 am
Microsoft has been trying its hand at a bit of innovation of late in an attempt to raise some of its lost brand equity, and stem the larger market decline in PC sales, which has recently started accel...
How the Obama 2012 campaign harnessed tech to win votes 1 May 2013 | 08:19 pm
Last night, at the Royal Automobile Club on London’s Pall Mall, Zeitgeist was fortunate enough to hear Harper Reed, the Chief Technology Officer of the Obama 2012 US presidential campaign speak candid...
