Netflix, Hulu, Youtube and Amazon, companies at the forefront of web delivered TV are increasingly resembling the traditional TV companies they seek to displace. They are now all complementing aggressive licensing strategies with large budgets for developing original content in recognition of the age old truism of TV – content drives subscribers. This leaves [...]
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Leading US TV streaming site Hulu has been trying to sell itself for much of this year, but is no longer for sale. The company announced yesterday that the sale process was terminated and now the owners, which crucially include content owners News Corp, Disney and Comcast, will keep the site independent. According to [...] Over the weekend I read a post by Ed Bott about the the decline of TiVo and Windows Media Center which had the following Google Trends chart: I think this shows conclusively that since around 2008 consumer interest in media services based around local storage – Media Center and Tivo have waned whilst [...] Netflix is at what might be looked back on as a watershed moment in the company’s history. On Monday they announced a $7.99 all you can eat download service for movies and television and according to the New York Times they are expecting that the cost of streaming movies will pass the cost of [...] Anyone in the UK will know about the popularity of the BBC’s iPlayer streaming service, and now data out from North America shows that consumers are taking to Netflix’s streaming movie service in the same way. In North America Netflix accounts for 20% of downstream internet traffic at peak times and 10% of Canadian [...] It is common in the tech industry for a new technology to be hyped up by industry insiders who hope it will transform their business. The mobile industry’s attempt to push “WAP” to the mainstream back in 2000 is perhaps the example that stands out most clearly in my mind, and I think the [...] Last week I asked whether the TV and movie industry is ahead of the music industry in the race to build profitable streaming services. Today there is more news that suggests it is: Bloomberg reports that Apple is Said to plan Netflix service on new TV product – that would be a c$10 per [...] Netflix, the US DVD rental cum video streaming business is out cutting $1bn deals with movie studios for streaming rights and Hulu is contemplating an IPO – both developments which suggest the premium video streaming business is starting to reach maturity. The music streaming business, by contrast, is still finding its way, and is [...] |
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