Today I saw that the Georgia Straight launched an insiders club. And one of the perks, reminded me of an idea:
– Access to 55 years of iconic Straight stories and archives
A quick skim through my archive, and I’m not sure if I’ve succinctly shared my idea, so here we go.
Time & Information
It’s no longer just an information economy. It’s an Information & Time economy.
You want to see a new movie?
- pay big bucks for the whole theater experience
- or pay specifically for the streaming service that will exclusively pick it up
- or wait a little longer, not pay for any new streaming services and hope your primary streaming service you pay for will pick it up
Information and Immediacy are now intermingled. We juggle and mix and match to our own liking. But they are never independent. Like the classic design triangle.
Good – Fast – Cheap
(pick two)
Yet outside of watching publications purging their archives from the public, and then making it all or nothing access I I haven’t really seen much experimentation:
- You want access immediately when published ( aka the fire-hose )? 💲💲💲
- You want retroactive access to what we’ve released over last week or yesterday? 💲💲
- You want retroactive access to what we’ve released over last month? 💲
- You want access to anything we’ve released two months or older, sure… you can have that for free.
- Oh you want archival access? Last year? 💲
- For the last 5 years? 💲💲
- For the last 10 years? 💲💲💲
- The complete archive? 💲💲💲💲
Traditional Models
Business models are being inspired by the old models that worked.
For the streaming wars: old TV advertising models are back hard; weekly time releases; live streaming events and shows – all of which, for the most part, people were “OK” with it and it worked.
Now for publication cycles. Why isn’t there more. At one point there were daily/weekly/monthly releases. They could be again. It was fine by us at the time.
I think all the old will be “new” again. We’re seeing it creep every forward, daily.
BTW: I’m still waiting for an AI version the Talking Yellow Pages.
