The time is ripe for media businesses to assemble online media empires.
However, Sterling was ripe for media scrutiny.
Lately, those independent studios have become ripe for acquisition as media conglomerates look to expand their library of intellectual property and consumer products.
But those markets that are ripe for disruption — like media, education, health, and publishing — still have tremendous amounts of upside and will likely continue to attract talent.
The lag in response time left the online conversation to grow and fester, and the story continued to proliferate throughout social media channels, ripe with speculation about the authenticity of the video and the location of the Domino's store.
Weisberger said "If Federated Media keeps performing the way we've predicted in 2007, it would be a really ripe time for a media player who understands this space to buy us now rather than having to buy us for a whole lot more later".
With their business models under threat and shares in the doldrums, Electronic Arts and its rivals look ripe for the picking by media groups like Walt Disney.
Since then its shares have fallen by 76%, making it ripe for purchase by old media mainstay Primedia, publisher of New York, Modern Bride, Seventeen, and about 300 other consumer and business-to-business magazines.
Indeed, social media sites are ripe for cyberbullying, when kids (and adults!) feel liberated to post cruel messages and taunts online without the discomfort of having to say something to a peer's face.
The Assads were in many ways ripe for celebrity treatment by the news media.
