Archive for July 2009
Young adults watching online video at “near-universal levels”
Posted by: David on: July 30, 2009
The rise of online video services has been fascinating to watch. Especially over the last 6 months. Even though video sharing sites like YouTube have lead video consumption online, it is actually the “quality” end of the market (dominated by Hulu in the US and BBC iPlayer in the UK) that has further fueled this [...]
Online video to dominate our living rooms?
Posted by: David on: July 21, 2009
I was reading NewTeeVee’s quarterly review – it highlights two main facts: (i) we are buying more and more “living room” devices that are capable of playing online video (e.g. set top boxes, games consoles) – projections are for 57 million devices to be sold in 2009 in the US, and (ii) cable operators are [...]
Movies and music to my games console
Posted by: David on: July 17, 2009
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he battle for the living room is growing in intensity. The latest announcement from Warners on delivering movies to the Wii (in Japan) is not the first or last of its kind, but it did make me stop to think about video games consoles and which one makes the best living room hub.
So, the PS3 [...]
Music streaming services – I can count them on 4 hands…
Posted by: David on: July 15, 2009
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ReadWriteWeb just posted a list of 18 music streaming services. Good list, though it is missing a few subscription based services (like Rhapsody) and services that are well known within certain territories (like We7 in the UK). It also doesn’t make a differentiation between the licensed services (legal) and the more questionable services.
ITV looking to charge viewers for clips
Posted by: David on: July 13, 2009
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My jaw dropped when Brand Republic posted a story about Michael Grade, Chairman of ITV talking about charging for video clips of shows like Britain’s Got Talent.
This a classic example of a highly experienced ‘traditional’ media guy struggling with the world of digital. The embarrassment of having missed out on millions of pounds of advertising [...]
Microsoft to launch music service to rival Spotify?
Posted by: David on: July 13, 2009
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The Telegraph have just put out a story about Microsoft launching its own music streaming/download service by end of July! Differentiating itself by using the Xbox as the entertainment hub to the home.
This is getting interesting – what with Virgin Media about to launch a music service in the UK, Nokia building up a head [...]
Web Awards single out entertainment services
Posted by: David on: July 11, 2009
Last week saw the inaugural TechCrunch Europe Awards – baptised the Europas – announce its shortlist and winners. Judging by all the tweets on the day, it sounded like a great bash. I really need to go next year!
The thing that struck me most was the success of entertainment-based services (Spotify, Songkick, Songcloud are just [...]
Glasto hits online maturity
Posted by: David on: July 9, 2009
Glastonbury was four times bigger in 2009 than in 2008… well, in digital terms, anyway.
The BBC festival website managed a record of 7.2 million video streams and the red button coverage on digital TV attracted over 6.1 million viewers over the weekend. Lady Gaga was by far the biggest act online – attracting 1.3 million [...]
Music streaming services growing fast in the UK
Posted by: David on: July 9, 2009
Every week there’s a news alert about ‘ad funded music services’ Spotify or We7 reaching new milestones for user numbers. Last week Spotify announced 2 million UK users, this week it’s We7’s turn to announce 2 million unique users.
I am chuffed to bits to see two European-based music businesses growing so rapidly. These guys [...]
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