Archive for the ‘Trends & Stats’ Category
Huge growth in video consumption
Posted by: David on: August 14, 2009
Just seen the latest Nielsen numbers for video consumption on Mashable. In the US alone, there were 11.2 billion video streams in July – that’s some 31% growth compared to the year before. Mashable dig further into the stats pointing out that “there were 135.9 million unique viewers of online video… that means that the [...]
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 [...]
Magazine brands need reinventing online
Posted by: David on: March 28, 2007
Magazines ruled the 80s and early 90s. High quality magazines were produced for almost every specialist subject, and until the Internet came along, they were frequently the only source of content and entertainment for specialist hobbies and subjects.
The Internet has changed all that. You can now find out more about any subject online than anywhere [...]
Web2.0 business models
Posted by: David on: March 20, 2007
Two things happened to me tonight: I went to an Internet People open mic session in London and when I got back home, I read Robert Scoble’s latest post – Web2.0 consolidation ahead?
And it made me think.
The Internet People open mic session was all about the lessons that the gathered London entrepreneurs had learnt. After [...]
So, I have joined Twitter… now what?
Posted by: David on: March 18, 2007
I got an email invitation from my friend Tim to join Twitter: “This site Twitter keeps getting mentioned on influential blogs and websites,” he said, “It’s a fast burner at the moment in the States. Sign up like I have, and let’s see if it’s any good.”
Ok, so I have done that… now what?
A few [...]
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Hi, I am David Maher Roberts - digital media expert and CEO of The Filter, a sophisticated recommendation and relevance engine backed by Peter Gabriel and Eden Ventures.
