Archive for the ‘Media & New Economy’ Category
Friday, January 9th, 2009
It is already one year since Sony signed with the four big movie studios and knocked out Toshiba in the war for the high-definition video format. Seagate's CEO said then "Blue-ray won the battle but lost the war", referring to hard-drives as the end winners that will store HD movie ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
In 2019, while Music downloads are mostly free, people is ready to pay for Movie downloads.
The Music industry has changed in the past ten years and artists make their work known by distributing it for free. Their revenues come from fans fees, live performances, merchandising, ad endorsements and downloads of ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
An interesting analysis from Telco 2.0 compares the business of YouTube versus Hulu in 2008. The table summarizes the key data used in the analysis:
YouTube
Hulu
No of videos/day
1000+ million
3-4 million
Average duration
2.75 min
27.5 min
% clips with ads
3-4%
80%
Average CPM
$10
$15-20
2008 Revenues
$118 m
$52 m
2008 Loss
$91 m
$9 m
According to Telco 2.0, YouTube ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Some facts about Online video:
Online TV is growing. The number of people watching online video will grow from 563 million in 2007 to 941 million in 2013 according to ABI research, echoed by NewTeeVee.
People watch far more hours of TV from the couch than on the PC. According to Nielsen ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
As usual in bad times, the debate on whether progress creates or destroys value comes back, as questioned in Martin Varsavsky blog, this time referring to how RSS destroys affects to blogs reducing the amount of displayed advertisement.
As Martin writes:
"I once debated Michael Porter at Davos on the overall ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Internet TV has definitively arrived and it is here to stay. YouTube crossed the chasm for video on the Internet, and Internet TV is now steadily going mainstream. Here is some piece of evidence:
Lean-forward TV gets traction. Mainstream users now feel comfortable watching videos on the PC. First it was ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 4 Comments »
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Google is re-investing the revenues they get from ads on projects to improve our world. Following google.org initiatives (RE<C, RechargeIT and others) Google is now calling for ideas from outside to make them happen in Project 10 to the 100.
Googlers are brilliant people and you can notice that from the great ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The news of the day is that SanDisk has just launched SlotMusic. The memory chip maker will distribute music from the four major labels on microSD cards. Music tracks will be encoded in MP3 at 320Kbps, DRM-free and pre-loaded on a 1GB microSD card that will sell for $7-$10.
Blogs unanimously ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Internet is the paradigm of next generation communications. One of the wonders of Internet is that it allows to de-couple Services/Applications from the access network. e.g. Anyone still uses the email or hosting services from your broadband access supplier? Most people prefer these Services independent from the broadband provider. One ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
