NextMEDIA 2015: It’s a new, Uberized, culture world

By Bill Roberts

TORONTO – It was another first, as in my first communications or cultural industries conference that was trending in the top five on Twitter – along with the audience getting regular Twitter metrics updates at bio breaks and lunch.Pretty cool for a Greybeard!And it sure as shootin' is a new world: 66% of us have Smartphones now, 46% of us watch TV on the Internet, video has a scant seconds or less to win a viewer, and we’re immersed, for better or worse, in a $22 billion digital economy.Walter Levitt, Chief Marketing Officer at Comedy Central in NYC – a...