This chart (originally in the UK Times and I found it on Hypebot) shows two things. Firstly, and unsurprisingly, recorded music revenues are shrinking both for labels and artists, and revenues from live performances are rising. Secondly, and this is the surprising bit, for artists the growth in income from live music is [...]
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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 [...] 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. I have always thought that future search and discovery services will take one of two forms – [...] 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 [...] Tim Bradshaw has a good article in the FT today describing the regulators ruling that Project Kangaroo as currently envisaged will restrict competition in the provision of TV online in the UK. The issue is that ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, the owners of the Kangaroo joint venture, control too much of the [...] Last week I wrote that the action in online video is in professionally produced content. In a comment Alan Patrick of Broadstuff pointed me to the chart below which he had posted a little earlier. It rams home the same point; that the ad dollars will be with long form pro content rather than [...] At the Library House Mediatech conference yesterday there was a presentation from a company called Slingshot Studios which could be described as a ‘Film2.0 business’. They described how Hollywood has chased up film budgets to an average of $70m on production and a further $50m for distribution by focusing on the very limited strategy [...] Ashley Highfield, recruited four months ago from the BBC to run Project Kangaroo announced yesterday he was leaving to join Microsoft. For those that don’t know Kangaroo is a collaboration between the UK terrestrial broadcasters to bring an online video service to market – a UK Hulu if you like. Microsoft are doing some [...] On the day of YouTube’s deal with MGM to show some full-length television shows and films it is interesting to note that all the online video sites are adopting the same broad strategy of focusing on professionally produced content. From the UGC side DailyMotion has for a long time been encouraging small film makers [...] Music, movies and books are all digital goods and to me it is obvious that ultimately they will all be delivered in digital form. Music has got there first because the technological requirements are lowest – movies have been more difficult due to file size and books more difficult still because no one [...] |
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