In a world of time shifting, on-demand content and audience empowerment, they misread the ratings and believed that Jay's audience was loyal to him and his show.
Hyr, a "marketplace that connects traditional businesses with workers to fill hourly paid shifts, on demand," recently closed a $1.3 million seed round.
Today, manufacturing is being shaped by the paradigm shift from mass production to on demand dictated, personalized, customer-driven and knowledge-based proactive production.
Homejoy and its competitors all make the same basic point: the cleaning services industry is one of the last areas untouched by the shift towards on-demand ordering, and as a growing industry, it's ripe for disruption.
The technical, organizational and strategic challenges of the shift to on-demand computing power.
At a point in the very near future, the expectation will shift from on-demand to predictive commerce.
A shift to on-demand courses, taken as students need them throughout their careers, could put further pressure on the traditional business-school model.
Linear TV still rules – witness the outcry over the looming closure of the BBC3 TV channel – but the shift to on-demand gains pace, with a record 3bn TV and radio programmes requested on the BBC's iPlayer, led by the reassuringly old-school, BBC2's Top Gear.
From where I stand — with a history in creating content for an ever-increasing variety of platforms — I believe the shift to on-demand content that works across all browsers is happening right now.
That speaks to why apps like Spotify have seen greater adoption in recent years, forcing older music streaming services like Pandora to shift into on-demand listening in order to catch up with where the market is headed.
