By: E&P Staff In a presentation to the Online Publishers Association yesterday, an investment banker predicted that in coming months most online newspapers would adopt some sort of system to charge for content (using the New York Times' "TimesSelect" as a model), reports Frank Barnako on his Marketwatch media blog.
In his presentation, Tolman Geffs, managing director of Jordan, Edmiston Group, also named Gawker, YouTube, and eHarmony as possible new media buyout candidates, noting that the number of deals of online consumer media companies has increased dramatically in the past quarter, Barnako writes.
Geffs noted that nearly half of the recent deals for online consumer media companies were completed by existing media companies, Barnako writes. He also reportedly suggested that Amazon.com was one major company that could be looking to make purchase those types of properties.
Additionally, Geffs is quoted as predicting that television networks will become more valuable as they learn to leverage the Web to distribute and monetize their video content online, and that financial analysts at brokerage firms are likely to become the first highly-paid bloggers (via a subscription model) if they are able to break news in specific sectors that could be valuable to investors.
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