Sunday, January 27, 2008

Ads vs. content

So I was watching a CNET video on my Tivo courtesy of TivoCast. The video was counting down the top 10 products at CES.

Out of the blue, Katie asked, "is this a commercial?" I said, "no, it's daddy's TV show about products."

She says, "so why are they trying to get you to buy something?"

Wow: my 4-year old zooms right in on the central dilemma of a media outlet like CNET: how do you dish out news and product reviews while raking in ad dollars to do it?

Sometimes Katie scares me with how innocently savvy she is about the world.

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