Economic Scope Analysis on Online Media: The Case
of Okezone.com
A M Putra
1
, K Jaya
2
, D Andika
3
, M Rosit
4
1,2,3
Universitas Mercu Buana, Jakarta,
4
Universitas Pancasila-Jakarta
1
afdal.makkuraga@mercubuana.ac.id,
2
kusuma.jaya@mercubuana.ac.id,
3
dicky.andika@mercubuana.ac.id,
4
muhammadrosit@univpancasila.ac.id
ABSTRACT
Okezone is one of MNC Media's business units which engaged in online media
news portals. This business unite first operated on March 1, 2007. Okezone.com
has a variety of content from general news, politics, events, international,
economy, lifestyle, celebrity, sports, auto, technology, food, travel, pilgrimage,
Muslims, coffee shops and rubric. Okezone.com also collaborates with other
MNC media business units such as TV Free to air, pay tv and e-commerce. The
cooperation is in the form of distribution of Okezone content to promotion of
Okezone activities posted both through the official website and social media of
each unit. This research will focus more on three long tail forces, namely
production democratization, distribution democratization and supply and
demand democratization. These three forces are a set of new opportunities that
arise in the long tail market. The methodology used in this research is a case
study with data collection methods through interviews and direct observation.
The results of this study explain that Okezone.com to run a business on digital
media, has applied the concept of economic of scope, it is seen in hyperlinks of
some content with fellow MNC groups.
Keyword: Media Economic, Economic of scope, Long tail
1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years the development of digital media business is growing fast, one of the
causes is the growth of internet users in Indonesia. AC Nielson issued a press release explaining
that internet growth penetration in Indonesia continues to increase, currently around one third
of the population in big cities have had access to the internet in the last 3 months. The
government's internet entry village program from the Ministry of Communication and
Information also contributed greatly to the increase in internet users in Indonesia. [1]
In 2017, We Are Social, a social marketing agency, issued an annual report on data on
the number of website, mobile and social media users from around the world. As many as 3,773
billion in total population worldwide, Indonesia is one of the countries that experienced a very
fast growth of 51% and as many as 3,448 billion are active users (Wearesocial, 2017). [2]
Internet technology has one capability that is not possessed by other technologies, one
of which is to erase the boundary between space and time, between one person and another,
better known as the "Global Village", where the world can be analogous to a very large and vast
village that can connecting all humans in the world. The concept of Global Village not only has
an impact on the ease of communicating with other communities without having to think about
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DOI 10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295174