[skunkworks] Re: Market Flux

[Wes Neithardt]

From our persepctive, part of this is due to the holidays (we have seen a drastic drop in our consulting and development areas with plenty of assurances that everything will be fine after 1/3/2001).  Maybe this is more of a business response to current market conditions - large companies laying off lots of employees, MS losing tons of people and money off stock... who knows.   We just got an investor day before yesterday that provided nearly 1 mm for streaming media development around various live action events - so the market isn't totally dead!   We expect our consulting area to pick up quickly again after the holidays - MS reporting poorly is practically an economic index in itself.   - W ----- Original Message ----- From: Bryon To: skunkworks talk Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:21 PM Subject: [skunkworks] Market Flux Hello, In light of the new market scares with dot com companies, is anyone being forced to renegotiate their advertising rates or options? I'm finding that alot of potential clients are hesitant to advertise with streaming media companies on a term contract basis. This is probably due to the recent crumbling of some big name streaming companies. anyone find a good way to rationalize ad sales to wary clients yet? ;) Bryon Taylor www.BanTv.com ============SPONSORED BY REALNETWORKS================ Better Sound + Better Use of Bandwidth = Better Business RealAudio 8: The New Internet Audio Standard ==> Hearing is believing visit: http://www.realnetworks.com/listen You are currently subscribed to skunkworks To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to digest mode, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Register for Streaming Media West 2000: http://www.streamingmedia.com/west/ ============SPONSORED BY REALNETWORKS================ Better Sound + Better Use of Bandwidth = Better Business RealAudio 8: The New Internet Audio Standard ==> Hearing is believing visit: http://www.realnetworks.com/listen You are currently subscribed to skunkworks To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to digest mode, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Register for Streaming Media West 2000: http://www.streamingmedia.com/west/