Why BOXING Is OVER! | Must Market | Scoop.it

While Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao were duking it out on Saturday, another battle was going on in the background: Periscope versus illegal live-stream...

Marty Note
K, let me see if I have this right. I pay $100K to watch a mediocre fight and the venue is going to tell me I can't @Periscope it (real time video streaming). WHAT?

Boxing needs to learn the music business lesson - try to deny or sue the future out of existence and YOU lose long term not them. Periscope is on the side of the angels. We #contentcurators are GOING to create content with their very cool tool.

Whether we will keep watching BOXING is the question.


And NO would be my answer unless we can create a tribe as we watch. If boxing's promoters want to KILL their golden goose they won't be the first. Instead of being happy they created an event people felt compelled to share and embracing the share and helping (the share) boxing wants to put genie back in bottle.

Yeah, good luck with that. I love it when ostrich-like industries like this one wrongly believe their CONTENT is what creates the primary value. HUBRIS goes before a monster fall in our business - web marketing - and it doesn't get much more arrogant than believing we HAVE to have a fight.

NO, we HAVE TO HAVE the connections such an event creates, so if you don't like it then find a way to support it or MAKE LESS MONEY and watch your relevance slowly decay to the point where NO ONE CARES because we can't share the expression of that care or see that our friends do too.

Lesson to boxing AND ALL OTHERS - we WILL curate your content and the proper response is. "WOW, that's great how can we help". Any other response and YOU LOSE. Sue and YOU LOSE FASTER and WORSE.

I wanted to watch the fight, but I'm not paying 100 bucks and I'm not going to a smoky bar with a bunch of drunk a-holes I don't know. So boxing's message to me is F-Off. My message back to boxing is I love Periscope WAY MORE THAN YOU. If you force me to choose that decision is easy...and YOU LOSE.

Never ceases to amaze me how really STUPID people believe they are capable of turning back the tide. Yeah, not so much just ask the music industry that goes from your money for nothing and chicks for free to WHO CARES or if it isn't free WHO CARES.


Ask those bands trying to pay for the sins of previous greedy generations if they wished the industry "leaders" knew a little bit more about what I do for a living (web marketing) and a little less about being huge a-holes (lol). Bet they vote for more of one and a lot less of the other. M

PS. May seem strange to say boxing is dead on its biggest $$ night ever, but that is precisely when businesses die lately. When they are so full of themselves they don't see the train that has in fact already hit them.