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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz used her fourth quarter earnings call to say that her ‘”competition is television”. She meant this on two levels – firstly Yahoo’s display advertising business competes with television for advertisers budgets and secondly Yahoo’s video products compete with television for audience – read more on GigaOM. Simon Fuller, the creator of the most watched show in the US for the past eight years American Idol, will premiere his new show on Hulu. It is then expected to air on a traditional television network several months later. Brian Steinberg has a piece up on Adage on the Future of TV – it has some interesting stats showing how fast old TV is declining and some useful thoughts on the future. Total viewership across the top four networks in the US is off 42% since 1994 – note this is at least in [...] Image via CrunchBase The news today that Hulu is looking to partner with cable companies highlights the fact that there are getting to be too many players in the internet television value chain. Om Malik has a great post up today on GigaOM reporting on Joost’s announcement that it will now offer a white-label video hosting platform whilst at the same time letting some people go and closing its Netherlands office. The reason for this shift in strategy is clear in the chart below – they haven’t got [...] Last week I wrote that the latest online video stats show that longform content is doing well, and in response Alan Patrick pointed me to a presentation on his blog entitled The Future of Online Video – Emerging Hypotheses which contained the following chart: It is a great presentation overall (if you like this brief version [...] Last week I wrote about the success that long form content is enjoying online and posited that as this market starts to go mainstream there will be a requirement for new search and discovery tools. Yesterday Skype announced the release of a lite version of Skype that will run on Android phone and java-enabled phones. Right now to use the Skype service you need to have a calling plan, so the carriers are OK. But over time you have to think that will change – it is only a matter [...] Novermber 2008 data just out from Comscore and reported by NewTeeVee and Broadstuff, amongst others, shows that in the US online video consumption was up 34% from Nov 07-Nov 08 at 12.7bn video views. The number of unique viewers grew at only 6% to 98m – roughly flat as a percentage of the US internet [...] SlingMedia, creators of hardware/software service which allows you to stream your home television signal to an internet conncected device anywhere – e.g. you could watch your Sky Premiership matches on your laptop when you are on holiday, are now moving into the video streaming portal game. I.e. they will be competing directly with Hulu, [...] |
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