Gates sees accelerated decline of traditional media’s ad model

February 29th, 2008

Microsoft thinks the advertising business model for traditional media those venues where advertisers still channel most of their spending will fall apart faster in the coming five years as the kind of interactive, targeted advertising that is defining the Web comes to the fore.

We’re saying newspapers will go online, and there will be massive innovation that comes out of that. We’re saying that TV, the biggest ad market in the world, will completely go online and have the kind of targeting interaction that you only get out on the Web today. As dramatic as things happening on the Web are, that’s actually what all advertising … will be in the future.

Though it will be the mobileweb

You can make of this as you will – but I think that the infrastructure of the mass media is unravelling which will accelerate. we will go from CPM’s to Cost Per Relevant Audience

Good night and good luck or as Walter Cronkite used to say