Web-based TV revenue to overtake digital terrestrial television revenue by 2012. 24 Jul, 2011By: Erik Gruenwedel Web-based TV revenue to overtake digital terrestrial television revenue by 2012 Worldwide revenue from video-on-demand movies and TV programs will reach $5.7 billion in 2016, up 58% from revenue of $3.6 billion in 2010, according to a new research report. The tally does not include pay-per-view sports events, adult entertainment or subscription-based VOD services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Google, among others, according to London-based Direct TV Research Ltd.
The United States will more than triple runner-up Italy with more than $1.8 billion compared to $592 million. China, the world’s most-populated country, is ranked third with $509 million in VOD revenue. By region, North America and Western Europe will continue to supply two-thirds of global VOD revenue by 2016, though this is down from 80% in 2010. By platform, digital cable will generate $2.6 billion globally – double what it generated in 2010. Facebook Analysis: KOMU-TV in Columbia, MO.
In this week’s TV news Facebook Fan Page analysis, I look at the Fan Page for KOMU-TV in Columbia, MO. Some may recognize the call letters from a post published last week on this blog that discussed how KOMU-TV used Google+ to interview Norwegians about the terrorist attack in Norway. Since the station is already finding ways of using Google+ for new-gathering, it wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that they’re probably making Facebook for them, too. You would be right in thinking that. While this station has the smallest community, in terms of Likes, of the three stations that I’ve looked at so far (13,000 Likes, versus 30,000 and 40,000, that isn’t an indication of failure.
One of my favorite things about this page is the tab they’ve dedicated to their “team” of anchors and other news reporters. Unlike the two previous stations, KOMU does not use a Custom Landing Tab/Welcome Tab/Like Gate on their page. First impressions are everything. Shazam Raises Funds to Pursue Interactive Television Deals - Liz Gannes. Shazam, the popular mobile music look-up service, has raised $32 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and Institutional Venture Partners.
The company has more than 140 million users (people who have downloaded one of its apps and tagged at least one song) and is adding 1.2 million more per week. It has millions of paying users for its subscription iPhone apps, as well as significant revenue from advertising and affiliate purchases. The company sells at least 300,000 songs per day. And its fellow mobile music breakthrough star, Pandora, just went public. But what Shazam is really excited about is television, which it sees as a bigger opportunity than music, executives said.
The company has embarked on a flurry of deals with networks like MTV and Syfy and advertisers like Old Navy (see screenshot above). Select TV programs and ads now encourage viewers to “Shazam” them, using the audio recognition features of Shazam apps in order to receive bonus content and discounts. Social TV Startup BeeTV Raises $1.5 Million, Releases iPad App. It’s been two years almost to the day when Israeli startup BeeTV raised $8 million in funding for a – really impressive – personal TV suggestion engine they’d been building. Fast forward to today, and the company has shifted its focus squarely on offering social tools for sharing the TV viewing experience with online friends. The company’s co-founder and former CTO, Yaniv Solnik, is leading the pivot as the startup’s chief executive officer, backed with $1.5 million in additional funding from Italian investment firm Innogest, a previous investor in BeeTV.
BeeTV lets users share ‘TV moments’ with friends and others in real-time, via an iPad app (iTunes link) that hits the App Store today. The app, which leverages the company’s existing recommendation technology, comes free of charge. The idea is to start with the iPad and the website and then expand to social networking sites and mobile apps for iOS, Android and other smartphone and tablet platforms.
Some screenshots of the iPad application: Interview With TV Ad Startup Simulmedia's Dave Morgan (Video) | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD. The TV networks are spending the week telling advertisers to keep buying TV ads. Great idea, says Dave Morgan. If you pay attention to Web advertising but haven’t kept track of Morgan recently, his position might strike you as a bit odd, coming from a well-known Web entrepreneur who built and sold two big digital ad companies.
But Simulmedia, Morgan’s newest effort, has nothing to do with Web ads. Instead he’s helping TV advertisers buy the same TV ads they’ve always bought. He just says he can help them spend their money efficiently, using data from cable companies’ set-top boxes. Simulmedia has been working on this for a couple of years, and originally focused on a relatively narrow slice of the TV ad market: TV networks advertising their own shows on other networks.
But earlier this year the company changed strategies–you can go ahead and call it a pivot without being embarrassed–and is now targeting the entire $70 billion TV ad market. The four enemies of indie Internet TV. Trying to assess the prospects for independent online video entertainment—video that doesn't come from one of the established outlets—is a day-to-day process. On some days the future looks bright; on others, less so. On the exciting side, Google just launched an experiment in live broadcasting, including a real time safari in South Africa's Djuma Game Reserve, a cricket match between the Delhi Daredevils and the Mumbai Indians, and a Mortal Kombat tournament. Most of the participants in this beta test look decidedly indie. We'll reserve judgement on how the Wing Girls Answer Your Dating Questions show will work out.
On a less hopeful page of the prospectus, Netflix has announced that it is downgrading the quality of video streaming for Canadian consumers. The movie distributor notes that "there is some lessening of picture quality with these new settings," but assures Canadians that the experience will continue to be "great" (albeit less filling, data-wise). Data caps Priority access. L'actu media web - Le JT de 20 heures est-il un anachronisme journalistique ?
Le JT, grand messe de l'information télévisuelle, a fêté le 30 juin dernier son 62è anniversaire. Fêterai-t-il son 70è ? Pas sûr, si l'on regarde la courbe des audiences de ce sacro-saint rendez-vous qui ne cesse de baisser sur les grandes chaînes généralistes. Et pour cause. Le modèle du JT est-il à bout de souffle ? Si l'heure de la retraite n'a sans doute pas encore sonné pour lui, ce format éditorial donne de plus en plus l'impression d'être un véritable anachronisme journalistique.
Depuis quelques temps, c'est par exemple la grande mode est au direct. JT F2 par CMC Il ne s'agit là que d'un exemple, que l'on pourrait multiplier à l'envie, mais représentatif. A l'image de ces micro-trott' qui doivent obligatoirement être présents certains journaux papier, quel que soit le sujet, l'important est ici de montrer. JT F2 par CMC Soit une fenêtre offerte à Anne Lauvergeon pour faire passer son message de communication selon son désir, ou presque. Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera 'Real News,' Criticizes U.S. Media.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Al Jazeera is gaining more prominence in the U.S. because it offers "real news" -- something she said American media were falling far short of doing. Clinton was speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and she said the U.S. is losing the "information war" in the world. Other countries and global news outlets, she said, were making inroads into places like the Middle East more effectively than the United States has. One of the reasons she cited for this was the quality of channels like Al Jazeera.
The channel, she said, was "changing peoples' minds and attitudes. And like it or hate it, it is really effective. " U.S. news, she added, was not keeping up. "Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," Clinton said. During the height of the crisis in Egypt, The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim wrote about Al Jazeera English's near-total invisibility on U.S. television. Ben Silverman, Advertainer. On his recent honeymoon in India, Ben Silverman sold an idea to his wife. Any tourist could go sightseeing, the former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and current content dealmaker argued to his new bride, a 24-year-old real estate agent named Jennifer Cuoco.
An even more exciting way to immerse oneself in a foreign culture is to...sit through some business meetings! In New Delhi, the newlyweds met with a few Microsoft (MSFT) representatives. Other sit-downs with media executives followed, all of them related in one way or another to Silverman's plan to blur the lines between advertising and entertainment. "My wife was like, 'O.K., great honeymoon! ' Anyone who can convince his spouse of the cultural advantage of a working honeymoon can probably sell anything, and over the past two decades, Silverman, 40, pretty much has. Selling content has made Silverman rich. Silverman's vision with Electus is to drive advertising deeper into the entertainment creation process. The Rise of TV Check-Ins. InShare115 Platforms like GetGlue, Philo, and Miso let networks reward loyalty and live viewing. It’s no secret Americans watch a lot of television – 35.6 hours a week on average, by Nielsen's estimate.
So it should come as no surprise that a handful of start-ups have emerged to channel TV viewing behavior. Platforms like GetGlue, Philo, and Miso give users enhanced interaction with their favorite shows, enabling networks to reward loyal viewers and encourage live viewing. After a series of fundings and partnerships, the space appears poised for a big year. Social TV is a more nuanced version of broad-based social networks: Users check in to TV shows (or other forms of entertainment) and are rewarded with badges or points. GetGlue is arguably the 800-pound gorilla in this burgeoning space. But there are Davids to its Goliath. Executives and investors say TV-focused status updates are a natural evolution that began with broad-based social networks. Networks are taking notice.
Do People Really Want Apps on TVs? - Digits. Do People Really Want Apps on TVs? - Digits. CES: Pay TV industry moves to adapt to Internet age - latimes.com. Reporting from Las Vegas — The pay television industry, under growing threat from the Internet, disclosed plans to prevent technology companies from luring away its customers. Cisco Systems Inc. showcased a new cable TV set-top box at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that would marry Web video with traditional TV programming. The device, unveiled Wednesday, would help cable operators maintain their lock on the living room amid mounting competition from companies whose devices or Internet-based services would allow consumers to "cut the cord" on their cable subscriptions in favor of watching TV online.
Meanwhile, Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, said it planned to stream TV programming to Apple Inc.'s iPad and other tablet computers powered by Google Inc.'s Android software in a bid to maintain ties with subscribers as they migrate to viewing on tablets and mobile phones. For now, Comcast's offering will be available only in the home. Internet Gains on Television as Public's Main News Source: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. More Young People Cite Internet than TV Overview The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet, which is little changed over the past two years but up 17 points since 2007.
Television remains the most widely used source for national and international news – 66% of Americans say it is their main source of news – but that is down from 74% three years ago and 82% as recently as 2002. The national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Dec. 1-5, 2010 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, finds that more people continue to cite the internet than newspapers as their main source of news, reflecting both the growth of the internet, and the gradual decline in newspaper readership (from 34% in 2007 to 31% now).
TV News Still Dominates Among Less Educated. Starz Launches TV Series with Facebook Game. Catering to fans' growing belief that a TV show should live on in other forms of media, cable network Starz is launching the series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, a Facebook game and an iPad app. The former, which launches January 6 to the first 10,000 Spartacus fans who register on the network's Facebook Page, is one of the first social media games based on a TV show.
The game lets you run your own Ludus (gladiator school) in the role of Lanista (manager of gladiators) and assemble your team to be fighting champions and do battle in the top arenas of the Roman Empire. The full launch is set for January 21. Starz Digital Media, the network's digital and online unit, worked with social media gaming publisher 6waves on the launch. Starz is also planning to introduce an iPad app based on Spartacus on January 22 that provides a screenplay of the show augmented by exclusive multimedia video segments, directors' notes and cast photos, among other extras. Starz Launches TV Series with Facebook Game. Online Video in 2011: Ready for Drama? Friends, online-video is going to be a fun storm in 2011 as the drama has just begun. It’s the first official business day of 2011, and that prompted me to awaken at 3:00 a.m. with great curiosity. I spent 4-plus hours diving into dozens of articles and blogs, and have wrapped it all up nicely for you.
It’s my late Christmas gift. Here are “things to watch” in early 2011, including some recent articles. See also my 2011 predictions, which is a mandatory scan. This will be on the exam. Can WebTV tame the "Big Media" Tiger? 1. Click image to read more of Fortune's "What the HELL is Going on With TV" 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Finally take note of NewTeeVee’s Liz Shannon Miller’s poll about what force will really impact the space. Like this: Like Loading... Online Video in 2011: Ready for Drama? 10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011. In many ways, 2010 was finally the year of mobile for news media, and especially so if you consider the iPad a mobile device. Many news organizations like The Washington Post and CNN included heavy social media integrations into their apps, opening the devices beyond news consumption. In 2011, the focus on mobile will continue to grow with the launch of mobile- and iPad-only news products, but the greater focus for news media in 2011 will be on re-imagining its approach to the open social web.
The focus will shift from searchable news to social and share-able news, as social media referrals close the gap on search traffic for more news organizations. In the coming year, news media's focus will be affected by the personalization of news consumption and social media's influence on journalism. 1. Leaks and Journalism: A New Kind of Media Entity In 2010, we saw the rise of WikiLeaks through its many controversial leaks. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Syndication models will be disrupted in 2011. 8. 9. 10 Predictions for the News Media in 2011. Facebook Friends Recommend Movies, Music, Food & Now T.V. with Clicker. How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television. How Social Media is Changing the Business of Television. 10 Trends That Are Shaping Global Media Consumption - Global News. What television will look like in 10 years.
Why check in to TV shows? Miso’s new answer: For the deals | @VentureBeat. Why check in to TV shows? Miso’s new answer: For the deals | @VentureBeat. The Newsonomics of news anywhere » @Niemanlab. The Newsonomics of news anywhere » @Niemanlab. Twitter Drives Crowds Back to Must-See, Live, Appointment TV. Twitter Plus TV Creates “Social Viewing” Twitter Plus TV Creates “Social Viewing” The Value of Your Time and How it Impacts the Internet Video vs Traditional TV battle. The Value of Your Time and How it Impacts the Internet Video vs Traditional TV battle. The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room | by @msuster. The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room | by @msuster.
Short Attention Spans for Web Videos. Internet dope et rajeunit l'audience de la télé. Fait sa télé avec du France24 dedans! Aufeminin.TV #pollinisation #winwin , via @mikiane. Fait sa télé avec du France24 dedans! Aufeminin.TV #pollinisation #winwin , via @mikiane. “Digivision”: la télévision du futur » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. “Digivision”: la télévision du futur » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Google prépare-t-il une GoogleBox pour téléviseurs ? - Numerama. Interactive Pre-Roll Ads Increase Consumer Engagement, ScanScout Finds. My students don't have TVs ...