Online TV & Video: “social revolution” No Longer an Exaggeration
Sighting a pressing TV industry need to monetize the “massive interest in online (video) content,” eMarketer.com summarized an Informa Telecoms & Media research report (which I could not find on their site) including numbers that would make almost any venture investor salivate. For example, “In the US alone, revenues are forecast to rise from $538 million in 2006 to nearly $4 billion in 2012.”
“These trends are now so pronounced, that the term ‘social revolution’ no longer seems too much of an exaggeration,” said Adam Thomas of Informa.
Personally, today, I was checking out VideoEgg.com which boasts an easy to use video upload, Flash compress, and, yes, video editing platform as well as a pretty impressive online video ad network that’s focused on social networking sites.
Does anyone have a good comparison of all these new Web 2.0 video platforms?
TechCruch seems to think that SplashCast may have the ultimate player platform.
I wish it was like the Videography days when I could get paid to research and write about this stuff. Who knows, if I can find a way to monetize it, maybe I’ll be doing some video clips soon. Potential channels would include internet marketing, online video, and the joy of golf. But should I do SplashCast channels, distribute via the VideoEggNetwork, BrightCove, all of the above, or what?!?
Jon,
A lot of these companies were at AlwaysOn Hollywood last year, and are at the onhollywood.goingon.com site.
I’ve been and will be blogging more on social video. If you want to trade insights, i’m here: http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/
cheers,
adrian
Thanks for stopping by, Adrian. Nice blog site! I downloaded your new white paper and will give it a read. I’ve also added your blog to my RSS reader (Bloglines) but who can keep up with them all? Just the same, let’s keep the conversation going.
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