{"id":1348,"date":"2008-01-16T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T18:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2008\/01\/16\/should-we-like-make-some-money-now-on-fb-ms-and-emi\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T18:32:27","slug":"should-we-like-make-some-money-now-on-fb-ms-and-emi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/should-we-like-make-some-money-now-on-fb-ms-and-emi\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we, like, make some money now? On FB, MS and EMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\/deadairspace\/index.php?a=292\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\/deadairspace\/dastitle.jpg\" alt=\"radiohead\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By far the coolest thing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/advertising.microsoft.com\/research\/facebookdeal\">press release<\/a> regarding the Microsoft investment in Facebook recently was the job title of the quoted executive. I am surprised I haven&#8217;t noticed anyone else noticing it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are pleased to take our Microsoft partnership to the next level,\u201d said Owen Van Natta, <strong>Chief Revenue Officer<\/strong>, Facebook. \u201cWe think this expanded relationship will allow Facebook to continue to innovate and grow as a technology leader and major player in social computing, as well as bring relevant advertising to nearly 50 million active users of Facebook.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jerakeen.org\/\">Tom Insam aka jerakeen<\/a>, one of dopplr&#8217;s development team said that the he liked the role because it made it clear that making money is somehow a sideline of what Facebook does. <\/p>\n<p>I left it at that until I heard about a new role at one of our clients- which was looking for a revenues officer. These &#8220;revenues officers&#8221; are fairly commonplace in the consumer web space, but we&#8217;re just beginning to see them in more enterprisey contexts. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in 2008. Do you know any ad-supported enterprise businesses hiring people in this kind of role? Arguably the music business just began a substantive move into ad-supported business models with the news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/28639840-c2e1-11dc-b617-0000779fd2ac.html\">EMI plans to look for band sponsors<\/a>&#8230; well sometimes listening to band does make you want an aspirin. will we even see competition for talent between music and IT businesses?<\/p>\n<p>Evidently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inrainbows.com\/\">Radiohead<\/a> didn&#8217;t want to be sponsored by Prozac or something&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far the coolest thing about the press release regarding the Microsoft investment in Facebook recently was the job title of the quoted executive. I am surprised I haven&#8217;t noticed anyone else noticing it. \u201cWe are pleased to take our Microsoft partnership to the next level,\u201d said Owen Van Natta, Chief Revenue Officer, Facebook. \u201cWe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-lK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}