think outside the screen
Out-of-home video should play well within its particular physical circumstances. More mobile apps should encourage users to look up.
Tagged: video
voice and video calling
Skype is moving aggressively into video telephony and real-time video sharing.
Tagged: telephones, video
communicating with photos
Photosharing is growing rapidly. It’s a highly popular activity on social networks like Facebook. Pursuing photosharing makes sense as a “thin edge of the wedge” strategy for web startups attempting to build a social platform. But why is social photosharing so popular? Some reasons: Sharing photos is an easier way to communicate than sharing written [...]
Tagged: images, video
the new movie business
The well-established movie business has high movie production costs, high movie promotion costs, and close relationships between movie studios and movie theaters. Online services such as Amazon Studios suggest possibilities for much lower movie production costs. The growth of social media and online advertising, as well as services such as Amazon’s Withoutabox, creates powerful means [...]
Tagged: video
movies and television shows are equal on Netflix
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently stated that Netflix subscribers watch about equal minutes of movies and television shows.[1] Those movies plausibly average 80 minutes in length, while the TV shows, perhaps 40 minutes. Hence Netflix subscribers watch roughly twice as many TV shows as movies. The secondary-market TV-show business developed largely as an adjunct to [...]
Tagged: video
time watching television continues to grow
Average television watching time per U.S. adult grew from 16 hours per week in 1995 to 20 hours per week in 2009. From 2003 to 2009, television watching time increased 9%.[1] Television watching time accounts for about half of total personal discretionary time and far exceed time spent on the web.[2] Not surprisingly, new [...]
Tagged: time use, video
video communication better with natural gestures
More than a third of all Skype calling minutes are in video calls. The share of Skype video in Skype calling minutes is higher in higher income countries. One interpretation of these statistics is that as income increases, users move from basic communication to richer, video communication.[1] Video calling with Skype suggests a bright future [...]
Tagged: video
moving pictures before television
From the 1920s through the 1950s, many persons earned a living performing stories (“kamishibai”) for free on the streets of Japan. The kamishibai performers moved image cards through a wooden picture frame to provide a visual complement to their verbal narratives. They sought to build a regular audience by performing stories that continued across days. [...]
Tagged: Japan, video
cheap physical distribution of video
Low-price rental of DVDs through kiosks is growing rapidly. Redstar, the industry leader, has grown from 6,700 video kiosks U.S-wide about January 2008 to more than 20,000 expected by year-end 2009. In early May of this year, Video Business reported that DVDPlay had 1,200 kiosks and NCR had 2,200 MovieCube kiosks, with plans to add [...]
Tagged: video
video distribution revenue
Video traffic accounts for a large and increasing share of global Internet-Protocol network traffic. Akamai, CDNetworks, Limelight, and other content delivery networks received an estimated $400 million in revenue worldwide in 2008 for distributing video. That revenue total is expected to grow 20% to 30% a year through 2013.[1] Telephone companies have long provided video [...]
Tagged: video