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Mobile Video still a Ways to Go; Who’s Watching Online Video Revisited

In my digital media Projections for 2009 earlier this year, contrary to predictions from some others, I proposed that 2009 is not the year for mobile video to gain momentum.  Recent survey results from Accenture supports this thesis with research. (I have not seen the report, but key highlights are publicly available, including here.)  Before [...]

Traditional Media on the Move in Digital Media

 
There has been a longer gap in my post than usual on account of travel.  Last week I attended the Folio: Growth Summit in Chicago and the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in New York.  The Folio Growth Summit is a magazine publishing industry event, and a co-located event held at the same time is E-Media Summit [...]

Leaning and Linearity in Video and Other Trends

Do you think the Lean-Back / Lean-Forward metaphor for video is still valid given the sea changes we are seeing in the world of video?  I think not and I wrote about this in the recent issue of Streaming Media magazine (Streaming Media 2009 Sourcebook) titled:  ‘The New TV-Web-Mobile Mashup’.  Since I wrote the article, [...]

Projections for 2009 - Online Video

While 2009 is already underway, it is still early in the year.  Already much has happened within a few short weeks in 2009 for our industry.  CES concluded with a glimpse of things to come.  Important new products were demonstrated that are the first mass sighting portending Internet video coming to the TV.  We had [...]

As Broadband Video Grows, Television is not Standing Still

Just when we think that broadband video is delivering the fare that makes traditional television viewing passé, there appear signs that there may be more to come when it comes to plain old television service (maybe this is a new use of the mostly defunct telephone related acronym POTS).  The current Consumer Electronics Show recently [...]