AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

At his old jobs — running Paramount, and then Disney — Michael Eisner was paid to pick winners, and he did a very good job. But that track record doesn’t mean much in the world of Web video. Eisner started out on the Web with a hit: With a push from MySpace, and then Veoh [...]

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Silicon Alley Insider
A funny but uncomfortable exchange today between Michael Eisner and Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro. Shapiro was supposed to be interviewing Eisner at Digitas’ “Newfront,” a showcase of Web video for potential advertisers held in New York.
But since Eisner is an investor in Veoh, and well, because he’s Michael Eisner, he felt he had [...]

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The Very Model of a Modern Media Mogul - The New York Times
When Michael D. Eisner left the Walt Disney Company in 2005 and set about remaking himself in new media, investing in a video-sharing Web site and starting a digital studio, some people in Hollywood snickered. Here we go, the whispers went, another fading [...]

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Questions for Michael Eisner–The Media Mogul — NY Times Sunday Magazine
As the former C.E.O. of Disney and the founder of a privately held company that invests in the digital future, you were recently speaking at a conference when you used the words “stupid” and “insanity” to describe the Writers Guild strike. Can you explain? What [...]

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