Facebook has spent years struggling to get people to share more unique personal content on the app instead of generic news article links that audiences can find elsewhere, like on Twitter.
@jamesseddon: "Will paywall mean moving away from mass appeal topics like pop culture towards more niche, unique content?" @TomWhitwell: "We'll continue to promote quality journalism".
To compensate, publishers are investing more in creating unique content for advertisers that can command higher prices.
The idea is that this will mean more unique and clever content on the web, which will ultimately lead to bigger online ad revenues.
Target customers for this version are established bands and musicians that want to provide their existing audiences a more unique and engaging content experience than currently at their disposal.
"I do not expect the console companies to implement strategies that fragment their audience in any way - the rumours of a new, more powerful PS4 with unique content I think are wide of the mark," says Harding-Rolls.
By working closely with journalists and editors, we've focussed on what they can action to provide a better experience for our existing readers and enable more people discover our unique content.
SublimeVideo got its beginnings as a service that could work with videos hosted in sites like YouTube — its customization service, in fact, was partly created out of the idea that many people hosting videos there may want a more unique look to the content when it appeared on their own site.
On the M&A front, he says AOL will continue to make "smaller acquisitions" to pick up key technology, engineering talent, unique content, or more advertising scale.
Since the launch of the Roku Channel Store, all Roku customers now have access to over 150 channels from 85 unique content services, with more added all the time.
