"This whole principal of bought, earned and owned media is going to be a really powerful model for the future, and social is one big chunk of it," he
says. But the trick is how to get your message amplified through pass on. "The digital and social-media world is definitely the place to do that with scale," he notes.
As for TV, "there
will be a very significant place for traditional media channels, but media owners are talking more about their brand than just their channels. People are becoming more concerned about the content
and less about the distribution mechanism," Cass says. He thinks network TV and magazine brands will go through a "right-sizing like in the newspaper industry, but really good distributed content is
what it's all about."
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