Welcome to Googlewood November 30, 2005
The Great Internet Giants Battle for Hollywood is upon us, pitting interactive media colossus (and Gawker content bodysnatcher) Yahoo! against the indomitable, ubiquitous search-entity Google. Yahoo! struck first, hiring former co-chairman and co-chief executive of Warner Bros. Terry Semel to guide the company through the murky jungles of show business dealings.
But with news that Google has now hired a former entertainment executive to its board of directors, albeit from the very computer-friendly PIXAR, media watchers are saying the struggle for multimedia control of our lovingly crafted product could get bloody:
Ann Mather, 45, a former executive at Walt Disney and Pixar, becomes the first Google board member to come from the entertainment world. Mather, who was Pixar”s chief financial officer from 1999 to 2004, will chair Google”s audit committee.
Mather”s appointment is a “potential harbinger” of things to come, as the major entertainment and Internet companies warily begin to embrace each other, said UBS Internet analyst Benjamin Schachter.
“Mather”s appointment gives Google”s board a media perspective that it currently lacks,” said Schachter. “This is the first person on the board without a purely technological or academic background.”
While the payoff potential is great, one must also consider what of ourselves we may lose in the exchange–it could be less than a decade before the fanciful illustration above becomes a daily eyesore reality. And yet, LIGHTS! CAMERA! GOOGLE? [NY Post]
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