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Rob Salkowitz

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  • Senior Contributor, Media and Entertainment, Forbes
  • Contributor, ICv2
Seattle
As seen in: Forbes, ICv2, Medium, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Australia, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News UK, Yahoo Singapore, WIRED Magazine, Yahoo Finance, Fast Company and
Covers:  business of pop culture/media/entertainment including events, content, merchandise, campaigns; comic or fandom-related stories; social media metrics/analytics; new technology for storytelling
2023-4 Eisner Award nominated journalist @Forbes & @ICv2; consultant & strategist; author of Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture; Faculty UW @commlead

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Are We in a New Speculator Market, or Is It an ‘Absolute’ Outlier?

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By Rob Salkowitz Verified
| ICv2 Verified
Absolute Batman and the rest of the Absolute line has been one of the best comics retail stories of the decade, bringing customers back into the shops and driving sales to levels rarely seen since the 1990s. But is it also bringing back some of the less savory behaviors associated with that era: speculation at scale, without regard to actual matters of supply and demand? Boom or Bubble?
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Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）

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By Rob Salkowitz Verified
| Forbes Japan Verified
ウェブトゥーン・エンターテインメント（NASDAQ：WBTN）の第2四半期株主への手紙の見出しは、為替影響調整後の売上高が5.2%増加、調整後EBITDAが550万ドル（約8億7300万円）となり、従来の業績予想の上限を上回る「堅調な」四半期決算を強調している。同社はまた、マーベルとの提携やAIを活用した新たなイノベーションなど、多くの新しい取り組みの成功について楽観的な見解を示している。しかし、報告書を詳しく読み解くと、韓国を拠点とするこのモバイル・ストーリー・プラットフォームのより複雑な状況が見えてくる。 一言で言えば、ウェブトゥーンだけでなく、このセグメント全体にとって、急速かつ容易な成長の時代は終わりを告げようとしているのかもしれない。同社は全体としては前進しているものの、コストの上昇、主要市場での課題、そして業界のダイナミクスの変化に直面している。これらの逆風に立ち向かうため、ウェブトゥーンはIP（知的財産）のマネタイズ、成長への投資、およびAIを中心とした新たな戦略に大きく賭けている。 吉報と凶報...
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Artists Built A Site To Escape AI. Scrapers Are Coming For It Anyway

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By Rob Salkowitz Verified
| Yahoo Canada Verified
Cara, an image sharing social network built specifically for artists who do not consent to have their work used to train generative AI models, suffered a third security breach in the past ten days, with copyrighted images and metadata from the site appearing on the open source data network Academic Torrents on August 22. This follows previous scrapes of the dataset posted on Reddit (since taken down by the original poster) and the AI model clearinghouse Hugging Face.
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