As many of you know, I recently left the Safran Digital Group for a position as Vice President of Digital Marketing at 20th Century Fox Films, a division of Fox Filmed Entertainment.

There were many factors that went into my decision, but the bottom line was that I was offered a chance to return home to the studio and work with some of the brightest executives in the business applying my experiences and learnings from SDG, from a digital innovation, distribution and monetization standpoint, to feature film campaigns.

In addition, Fox recently announced an aggressive reorganization which puts a new focus on developing digital business models and keeps my goal of helping to develop sustainable digital economics aligned with my professional responsibilites.

During this transition, and the negotiations that preceded it, my blogging and tweeting has suffered significantly. As much as I’d like to revive the volume of posts to both, the reality is that I don’t expect that to happen for a while.

I’ve turned off the comments for this post, so if you have any comments or questions, please direct message me on Twitter.
Proud of you guys,
JZ

My doctor says laughter is the best medicine.

He also gave me six months to live. When I told him I couldn’t pay his bill, he gave me another six months.

But seriously folks, is today’s announcement of FunnyorDie’s partnership with HBO a step towards treatment for the ailing web video economy or is it just another symptom of a distressed digital development system grasping for a cure from a declining distribution channel?

Say what you will about FOD’s, traffic, strategy or content, but all the noise about whether or not FunnyorDie has a real digital business, or as I argued, is irrelevant as a web property, is made moot by today’s announcement.

And that’s a good thing. Which we can all laugh about.

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They say that the path to wealth is through writing and I believe them.

It makes sense. If you can write put your thoughts on paper then the value of your ownership goes from something ethereal to something tangible.
They also say that being left-handed is an economic advantage. That makes less sense, but then I met Steve de Souza and I was convinced.

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