Interactive TV - and far beyond

Belly up to the TV?

2008-08-19T04:54:00.000-07:00

This research shows that bar patrons are more likely than average Americans age 21 or older to watch TV shows online (streaming), through Internet downloads, using cable provider Video On Demand (VOD) services, or on DVD. All of these new ways of consuming TV programming, combined with DVR usage, significantly limit the viewer's exposure to traditional TV commercials.

Inside the Cable Giant�s Plan to Marry Television and the Internet

2008-08-19T01:57:00.001-07:00

Can Comcast Make TV 2.0 A Reality?
Inside the Cable Giant�s Plan to Marry Television and the Internet
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 8/17/2008 5:07:00 AM
The vision Comcast has for the future of TV isn’t locked up somewhere inside its brand-new, glass-encased headquarters in downtown Philadelphia. The rough cut of the cable company’s ideas are already playing out on the Internet, at Fancast.com.

Fancast, launched in January after two years of development, is supposed to be the first step toward totally personalized television. It’s TV that knows precisely what you want to watch and instantly serves it up anywhere at any time.

At first glance, Fancast looks like an attempt to compete with other online video aggregation sites — think MSN or Yahoo Video. That’s because Fancast hosts a buffet of more than 4,000 full episodes of shows and movies, from NBC, Fox, Viacom, CBS, FX, Warner Bros., Bravo, Sci Fi Channel, AMC and others, many provided through a deal with Hulu, owned by NBC Universal and News Corp.

But Comcast Interactive Media, which the operator formed in December 2005 to establish new online ventures, hopes to evolve Fancast into the last program guide a viewer would ever need.

Fancast is built to navigate a universe of TV and movie content to find that special show no matter where it lives: online, on a cable network or broadcast TV station, on video-on-demand, on a mobile phone, or even in movie theaters. This single comprehensive, intelligent source will let you discover and manage content choices, and share them with your buddies.

Comcast Interactive Media president Amy Banse expects Fancast to be the means through which you program your DVR, arrange your video-on-demand selections, watch past episodes of TV shows on an office computer, or read reviews of various programming.

“If you’re a Comcast customer and you buy a package of content from us, you should be able to consume and manage that content across screens,” she said. “We very much believe that the Internet and the PC should be a tool to manage and consume that content.”

Internet-only players like Google aren’t in the same position to tackle the multiscreen phenomenon, in part because they lack the wire to the home. And so far, Comcast is ahead of other cable and video distributors in settling this new frontier between the Internet and the TV.

Fancast, then, is the test case for the hypothesis behind the formation of Comcast Interactive Media: that the operator can extend its position as the country’s leading pay TV and residential broadband provider with a powerful Internet-content brand rivaling Google.

After two years and spending what is estimated to be more than $600 million for various Internet properties, Comcast Interactive Media — called CIM (“simm”) internally — has swelled to about 540 employees. Banse and her lieutenant, Sam Schwartz — CIM’s executive vice president of strategy and development, as well as president of Comcast Interactive Capital — have built a good portion of the division through acquisitions.

Those include thePlatform, a Seattle-based provider of video-management services which has more than 100 customers, for which Comcast reportedly paid between $80 million and $100 million in 2006. Another is movie-ticketing site Fandango, for which the MSO is said to have spent in the neighborhood of $200 million last year. Fandango, based in Los Angeles, sells tickets for more than 15,000 screens across the U.S. and has since been linked into Fancast.

And earlier this month, CIM picked up DailyCandy, a 55-person Web content publisher with 2.5 million subscribers to its fashion- and lifestyle-oriented newsletters, for what was widely reported to be about $125 million. The idea behind that deal was to acquire an audience of loyal and avid Internet consumers, and find ways to migrate them to the Fancast and Fandango sites as well.

“One of the luxuries we have as part of Comcast is the scale to pursue our huge ambitions for CIM,” Schwartz said.

A top goal for the unit is to establish standalone businesses that generate sizable sales, besides serving the traditional goal of enhancing the traditional TV and broadband services. CIM already does the latter with video and other content on Comcast.net, which has 15 million unique monthly visitors.

“We want to capture a share of what everybody believes will be an increasingly ad-supported revenue stream online,” Banse said.

Comcast’s ambitions reach farther than just catering to consumers — it wants to also serve other operators and video sites. In July, thePlatform announced a deal with Time Warner Cable to power the video player on RoadRunner.com. In addition, thePlatform provides services for broadband portals operated by Comcast, Cox Communications and Cablevision Systems — giving it four of the top five MSOs — as well as Hulu, BBC, CNBC, PBS, Verizon Wireless and others.

“We’re providing the ecosystem to have a low-friction way of moving from the content owners and the distributors,” said thePlatform CEO Ian Blaine.

For now, CIM represents a fraction of Comcast’s business. The company reports CIM’s revenues as part of the “corporate and other” category, which includes the Comcast Spectacor arena and sports group. For the second quarter of 2008, that segment generated $87 million, or 1% of the company’s overall revenues.

But as the biggest traditional video distributor in the country, with 24.6 million cable video subscribers as of the end of June, Comcast wants to gain a foothold now in the online video-entertainment space before Google or someone else establishes an insurmountable lead.

According to some analysts, Comcast is staking out ground that all video distributors will need to claim for their survival. “Not only is it the right strategy, it’s the essential strategy,” said Will Richmond, president of consulting firm Broadband Directions. “Consumers are showing companies what needs to be done by shifting their consumption away from linear video … Any company that doesn’t give customers what they’re looking for is going to be disadvantaged.”

Cable operators have had broadband portals for years, which would seem to have been logical places to establish a beachhead in online video, Richmond noted. Now, however, those sites are being eclipsed by Google’s YouTube, Veoh Networks, Metacafe and countless others.

In that sense, Fancast, and the rest of CIM’s properties, may be viewed as a hedge against a future in which the Internet is the predominant distribution mechanism for video.

Cable operators “are worried that if they give you online video, you’ll drop your premium cable subscription,” Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey said. “They’re right in that fear, by the way. But only Comcast seems to have the money and the commitment to getting there first rather than watching someone else come in and walk away with their business.”

Comcast urgently wants to make Fancast a world-class Web contender.

Last month, Banse recruited Karin Gilford, who built up Yahoo’s entertainment properties in her eight years there, to run Fancast and other online properties. Gilford has a “proven track record of developing and growing multiple online entertainment businesses,” Banse said in announcing her hiring.

A central idea behind Fancast, Banse explained, is to deliver a “windowless” experience for video viewers, meaning they don’t have to worry about the time restrictions associated with content.

If a show or movie isn’t available free online, the site tries to find it somewhere else, whether that’s on a linear cable network, Comcast video-on-demand, in a movie theater, or on DVD. Or even on the linear services from DirecTV, Verizon’s FiOS TV, or any other provider you specify.

“We’re not there yet,” Banse said. “But by stitching the windows together in that fashion, we believe that consumers will get an on-demand experience when they want it, where they want it.”

Fancast also offers a myriad of ways to find stuff you might like, including a “Six Degrees” feature that shows related actors, directors and titles — pulled from a database of some 80,000 movies and 50,000 TV shows — and providing recommendations based on your ratings.

One of the next steps for Fancast will be programming Internet video for living-room TV sets, letting Comcast subscribers find it and play it back in a simple, seamless fashion.

“What you’ll see over the next 12 months is, if what you’re looking for is online but you want to watch it on your living room TV, we’ll be able to say, 'Here’s how you get it from the Internet to the television,’ ” Banse said.

With this particular feature, Comcast isn’t alone. Time Warner Cable is plotting a similar Internet-to-TV service, and Verizon is testing a service for FiOS TV that will deliver Internet video from sites including YouTube, Veoh Networks, Blip.tv and Break.com to customers’ television sets. Consumer-electronics manufacturers like TiVo, Sony Electronics and Apple are already slinging Web clips to living-room sets.

The trick will be to stitch it all together in a way that’s useful and interesting. “We think consumers really are going to respond to what we can offer,” Banse said.

Comcast won’t divulge viewer metrics for Fancast.com, but early estimates put it at around 2 million unique monthly visitors.

As it grows, the site will increasingly compete for eyeballs with Comcast’s traditional programming suppliers, which for now are drawing bigger crowds than the nascent Fancast. In May News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media division — which includes MySpace — had 60.8 million unique video viewers, while Time Warner sites (excluding AOL) collectively had 24.6 million, according to Internet measurement firm ComScore.

In Banse’s view, Comcast remains a powerful partner on any platform: “We have 30-year relationships with these content guys. It’s a synergistic relationship with them. There’s no reason why that relationship shouldn’t extend online.”

Cable-network executives agree that ventures like Fancast ultimately should fuel viewing of traditional TV programs. “Fancast reinforces linear, by helping people find new and complementary content,” said MTV Networks senior vice president of partner marketing Juliette Morris. What’s more, Morris noted, as Fancast grows into a serious revenue generator, MTVN shares in that bigger slice of online ad revenue.

David Preschlack, executive vice president of Disney & ESPN Networks affiliate sales, similarly believes broadband outlets can augment viewership rather than cannibalize it. For example, the programmer offers ESPN360, an online-only service with live sports events, to cable and telco operators.

“I think it’s nothing but good news for us to figure out ways of working with Comcast — and other distributors — to extend to as many platforms and as many devices as possible,” he said.

Banse was negotiating with programmers before she was tapped to run CIM. As executive vice president of content development, she previously oversaw Comcast’s investments in and development of cable networks, including E! and PBS Kids Sprout. A lawyer by training, Banse joined Comcast in 1991.

Comcast and other MSOs may have an inherent advantage in negotiating online content-distribution terms over startups, with their broad existing relationships with programmers and advertisers.

Cable companies “can bring scale and distribution,” said Steve Mitgang, CEO of video-aggregation site Veoh. “They can experiment. And they can come in later, and buy and integrate if they need to take advantage of a market trend.”

To Banse, though, time is precious. If Comcast and other cable operators don’t act now to redefine — and reaffirm — their roles on the Internet, they risk interlopers coming in and aggregating the same content.

“Tying the screens together” — the Web, the TV and mobile devices — “takes time,” she said. “So we actually look at it from the perspective that we don’t have a moment to lose.”

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More Hulu, Less YouTube

2008-08-18T05:27:00.001-07:00

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USD 505m internet video advertising in 2008

2008-08-18T05:23:00.000-07:00

USD 505m internet video advertising in 2008

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Home Networking: 168 m HH worldwide

2008-08-15T03:15:00.000-07:00

My point: Home networks are in the vast majority of homes, and become a commodity. Thus, not only is an internet connection into the home a utility, much like water and electricity, but is increasingly available throughout the home, again much like water and electricity. A strong case for the connected-device argument.

Article:
Rapid growth in home networking, approaching 168 million households worldwide in 2008, is laying the foundation for expansion of multimedia services internationally and especially in the European markets, according to Parks Associates. The market research firm will host CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit on August 29, 2008, at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin, to discuss the implications of this market growth.

Europe is in the midst of a home networking boom thanks to an increasingly competitive market for broadband services. France and the U.K. have been at the forefront so far, and Germany, Spain, and

Italy

have been bringing up the rear. The latter three markets could keep the boom going, however, provided that regulators foster greater competition.

“Broadband growth pushed Europe ahead of North America in terms of home network adoption,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. “With the network in place, providers will tie in high-demand entertainment services. By 2012, over one-third of networked nodes worldwide will have entertainment or multimedia functionality, with particularly strong growth in IPTV services.”

Competition among incumbent and upstart telephone operators inEurope has been fostered by regulators’ aggressive stance on local loop unbundling. Since the late 1990s, regulators in Europe have allowed alternative carriers to have access to last-mile connections that were initially built by the incumbents. Regulators established rules regarding the fees that could be charged to the competitive players, ensuring that these upstarts would only pay for the facilities and equipment that they actually used. This move has put the competitive players on equal footing with the entrenched players, resulting in a dramatic shift in the availability of operators from whom customers can choose. Where there was just one PTT (Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone provider) per country, now there are many.

In the case of Italy, the entry of FASTWEB has spurred broadband adoption, but the country lacks the variety of players seen in theU.K. and

France

. Similarly in Spain, Telefónica’s dominance is only now seeing a significant challenge thanks to the consolidation of the country’s main cable TV providers (ONO & Auna) and the growing presence of Orange.

Germany

presents another interesting case. Regulatory provisions there have been less friendly toward new entrants than in France and the U.K. Deutsche Telekom, the incumbent telco, controlled the country’s main cable provider until recently, and the German government is resisting pressure from the European Union to enact additional unbundling measures.

All of these data point to the fact that home networking still has room to grow in Europe. Spain, Italy, and

Germany

remain laggards by international standards, but they will not be so indefinitely. Once competition heats up, adoption levels should quickly rise as they have in the U.K. and

France

. Home network providers would benefit from keeping an eye on the changing competitive dynamics in these countries and positioning themselves to exploit demand once competition unlocks it.

CONNECTIONS™ Europe will provide attendees with international consumer research and feature interactive discussions on advanced television services, new media and digital content, and value-added services. Advisory sponsors for CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Cisco, Enure Networks, F-Secure Corporation, Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), Neotion, support.com, Toshiba Electronics Europe, WirelessHD, and Zilog, Inc.

For information on registering or attending, please visitwww.connectionseurope.com.

Broadcast TV will surpass newspapers as the largest ad medium in 2008, while total Internet ad spend will surpass broadcast TV in 2011

2008-08-13T08:42:00.000-07:00

tv more important still....

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35% of adults has watched a TV program via internet

2008-08-12T02:07:00.000-07:00

very interesting industry data

TV/WEB STATS

According to a study conducted for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) by Nielsen:

35% of adult broadband users surveyed had watched at least one television program via the internet.
82% said they went online to find a specific television program that they had missed when it first aired on TV.
87% of those who were seeking out video content online watched television programs directly from a TV network website.
Online Video watchers typically prefer shorter form clips. 53% like movie trailer. 37% general news. 31% watch comedy. 31% watch sports. 45% dabble with user-generated videos.
A little more than half of the survey’s participants (51%) said they were online for at least three hours a week in 2007. In 2005,onle 41% spent that much time online.
Standard TV viewing practices are growing too. Free on-demand programs and movies have risen in usage from 49% in 2005 to 71% in 2007. Paid on-demand usage increased from 46% to 55%.

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Americans viewed 12bn videos in May 08

2008-07-17T16:30:00.001-07:00

surprise surprise, top video destinations on the web are... media companies! (after google/youtube off course) . full story here

People watch online.... yes indeed: TV

2008-07-17T15:38:00.001-07:00

full story here

numbers speak for themselves:

-94% of folks with cable or satellite prefer to watch TV on TV above watching TV online

Of those that go online:

- 87% watched content from a TV network web site (interesting) and

- 82% said that they went online to find TV content!

So online is a distribution medium for TV - consumers apparently like online, but the also like to watch it on TV.

So Solocoo is not so loco, I say.

Daily Video Entertainment in 2013 Will Be Less Than 50% Traditional TV

2008-07-17T15:34:00.000-07:00

Need I say more?

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YouTube - Tivo: less than 750k potential users

2008-07-17T15:26:00.000-07:00

Dan Rayburn, EVP of Streaming Media (www. streamingmedia.com) in his blog today mentions that only 750k of the 4m Tivo subs have a Series 3 that can yield YouTube. And then, how many have connected to broadband? Most still are only connected via the phone jack apparently

BT invests GBP 1.5bn in fast internet

2008-07-17T15:18:00.000-07:00

(article in Dutch) Who said internet capacity is limited. It may be so a bit today, but very unlikely tomorrow. BT invests GBP 1.5 billion (!) to provide 10m UK homes with superfast internet. So, what will they use this bandwith for...

I hope for services like solocoo: video delivered via internet in a highly personalised experience.

Please stop talking..

2008-07-17T15:07:00.000-07:00

David Koretz of MediaPost argues in his blog that social networking, blackberries and bleutooth headsets make our world a mile wide and an inch deep. He continues to argue for an integrated approach towards more depth of the advertising approach, using APIs and widgets.

yes, we believe that tapping into a person's deep interest has value for advertisers (I like mountaineering and can't get enough of mountain hardware's gear. so yes, I don't mind them sending me nice climbing movies with their ads in it. I will even forward these to my climbing buddies). Very targetted. inch wide, miles deep?

YouTube on TV.. big deal!

2008-07-17T15:01:00.000-07:00

Intersting piece of news re YouTube deal with LionsGate and YouTube.

Frankly, how integrated is YouTube into Tivo? not that much, only the TV input switching problem is addressed, but how to send to friends? or how to market one's YouTube channels (or video) to viewer? Not with Tivo.

Solocoo can do YouTube, fully integrated with TV. Send-a-friend, and allow publishers to market their YouTube content to TV viewers.

interactiviteit

2008-02-19T01:12:00.001-08:00

INTERACTIVEIT BEGINT TE KOMEN

Iedereen is bezig: Hyves met tele2, Rabobank... allemaal interactivieit. Maar: hoe werkt die interactiviteit, hoe schaalbaar, en wat is het businessmodel?

rabobank

hypotheken

Heavy Viewers Watch Eleven Times As Much Online Video as Moderate Viewers

2008-02-14T10:44:00.001-08:00

comScore and Media Contacts Study Highlights Behavioral Differences Among Online Video Viewer Segments

Heavy Viewers Watch Eleven Times As Much Online Video as Moderate Viewers;
140 Times as Much as Light Viewers

RESTON, VA, February 14, 2008 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, and Media Contacts, the global interactive media network of Havas Media, showcased the results of a proprietary study of the online video audience at a Video Symposium in New York yesterday. The research was designed to understand the consumption habits and mindsets of Internet video users as they relate to online video, TV, and advertising and content across both media. The results revealed differences in orders of magnitude: the heaviest viewers (top 20 percent of viewers) averaged 841 minutes of online viewing per month, while moderate viewers (next 30 percent) averaged 77 minutes, and the lightest viewers (bottom 50 percent) watched just 6 minutes each.
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Time Spent Watching Online Video by Viewer Segment
October 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore/Media Contacts Custom Study

Online Video Viewer Segments             Average Minutes per Month
Heavy Viewers (Top 20%)                           841
Moderate Viewers (Next 30%)                        77
Light Viewers (Bottom 50%)                          6
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“The difference in consumption levels was astounding. The usage differences are reminiscent of the early days of the Internet,” said Jarvis Mak, VP of Research and Insight at Media Contacts. “However, the networks’ online distribution of first-run content will go a long way to bridging the gaps between heavy, moderate, and light viewers.”

Heavy Viewers Spend Time on Niche Video Sites
YouTube is the common thread among the heavy, moderate, and light segments – it is the top video site for all three and reaches the most overall video viewers (54 percent reach). Distinctive behavior for heavy video viewers is found by looking at the top indexing sites for this audience, revealing mostly niche video-sharing sites, each reaching less than 1 percent of the total U.S. Web population.
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Top Indexing Sites Among Heavy Viewers
October 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore/Media Contacts Custom Study

Online Video Site             Composition Index*
Ouou.com                             460
MegaVideo.com                        457
Youku.com                            449
zSHARE                               448
Tudou.com                            447
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*Composition Index = Site Reach of Heavy Video Viewer/Site Reach of Typical Video Viewer x 100; Index of 100 represents parity

Moderate Viewers Enjoy Specific Online TV Content
By contrast, moderate viewers show a high propensity to view specific video content on broadcast TV sites, including WorldNow (ABC), CBS TV Local, ABC Daytime, Scripps TV, and CMT, rather than frequenting more general video-sharing sites.
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Top Indexing Sites Among Moderate Viewers
October 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore/Media Contacts Custom Study

Online Video Site           Composition Index*
ManiacWorld                        201
Glumbert                           175
WorldNow (ABC)                     173
CBS TV Local                       172
ABC Daytime                        170
Scripps TV Station Group           169
CMT                                168
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*Composition Index = Site Reach of Moderate Video Viewer/Site Reach of Typical Video Viewer x 100; Index of 100 represents parity

Light Online Video Viewers are Heavy TV Viewers
The conventional wisdom says that the heaviest users of the digital channel are likely to be the heaviest consumers of media in general. However, the study found that light online video viewers are actually heavier TV consumers, with 46 percent of this group indicating they watch more than 13 hours of TV per week. By comparison, just 39 percent of moderate video viewers and 30 percent of heavy video viewers watched the same amount of TV.

“To discover how best to reach and message online different kinds of video viewers, we used the comScore data to further develop proprietary segments: ‘Content Explorers,’ ‘On Demanders,’ ‘Sight & Sounders,’ and ‘ Television Devotees,’ ” Mak continued. “Capitalizing on the explosive growth of online video, especially as consumers have started exploring media and entertainment options due to the recent writers’ strike, requires a deep understanding of the viewing audience driving the demand.”

What do we watch online?

2008-02-14T10:39:00.001-08:00

This is interesting: people are watching much of the same stuff they now watch on tellie or DVD. So: time- and placeshifting more important than long tail? or is the long-tail the same as time- and place shifting. Partly yes, off coures. Ah, why is this all so obvious!

iPhone Flash Player

2008-02-13T03:53:00.001-08:00

Dan says that iPhone will include flash in the coming months:

"Some folks who work closely with the iPhone product line are telling me that iPhones will support Flash video playback very shortly. While I know there has been a lot of speculation about Flash video on the iPhone not being possible due to battery constraints and other technical rumors, the only real thing stopping it from working is an agreement between Apple and Adobe.

While I don't personally have an iPhone, getting Flash video adoption on the handset will go a long way in helping to make video a lot more portable for handsets. Yes, many phones already do video, but iPhone users amongst all others are always very adamant about showing what the phone can do and the moment it does Flash video, you'll see a lot of iPhone users showcasing that to anyone who wants to watch.

UPDATE: I am already getting a lot of questions about what "very shortly" means and it's a valid question. The answer is I don't know for sure, but based upon who told me the info to being with, I took it to mean this quarter"

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Uitgesteld tv kijken wordt de norm

2008-02-10T17:04:00.001-08:00

Kijkonderzoek: kijkgedrag verandert fundamenteel

16 januari 2008 - Door Erwin Boogert

Nederlanders zijn in 2007 significant minder televisie gaan kijken dan het jaar ervoor en veel meer on demand gaan kijken. Met de opkomst van digitale tv en bijbehorende videorecorders verdwijnt de noodzaak live te moeten kijken.

Dat zijn enkele conclusies die spreken uit het jaaroverzicht dat Stichting Kijk Onderzoek (Sko) vorige week uitgaf. Het rapport is te downloaden bij weblog Mediaonderzoek.nl, dat gespecialiseerd is in onderzoekscijfers naar Nederlandse media.

In 2006 keek een Nederlander gemiddeld 197 minuten per dag naar de televisiebuis. In het jaar 2007 daalde het aantal dagelijkse tv-minuten met 10,7 minuten tot 186,3. Omgerekend verloren alle zenders 5,7 procent van de aandacht van een consument, in 13 maanden tijd.

Het enige medium dat beduidend veel aandacht wón van Nederlandse kijkers was niet een commerciële of publieke tv-zender, maar een plastic kastjes met een harde schijf dat in steeds meer huishoudens staat: de video recorder die met digitale tv en EPG is verbonden. In 2006 keek men per dag 0,7 minuut naar de video recorder, in 2007 was dat 1,9 minuut. Omgerekend is dat een stijging van 256 procent.

Per dag werd er in 2006 7 minuten naar dvd's gekeken. Afgelopen jaar steeg dat met circa 2 procentspunten tot 7,1 minuut.

Marktonderzoeker GfK opende eind november 2006 het congres TV en Internet met de opmerking: "In 2007 en 2008 zal de hard disk recorder, in of naast de tv, doorbreken en het kijkgedrag van Nederlandse huishoudens massaal veranderen. Uitgesteld tv kijken wordt de norm."

Internet TV = TV!!

2008-02-10T17:00:00.000-08:00

Ik bedoel, 2.7 MILJOEN KEER BEKEKEN VIA INTERNET

Boer zoekt Vrouw ook hit op Uitzending Gemist
Uitgegeven: 1 februari 2008 17:41
Laatst gewijzigd: 1 februari 2008 17:55

HILVERSUM - Boer zoekt Vrouw is ook op internet populair. De afleveringen en extra video's van het KRO-programma werden in januari circa 2,7 miljoen keer bekeken via Uitzending Gemist.

Dat is een nieuw record, aldus een woordvoerster van Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) vrijdag. In de top 3 best bekeken programma's op Uitzending Gemist staan in januari naast Boer zoekt Vrouw, ONM (522.000) en Wie is... de Mol (451.000). De programma's van de publieke omroepen werden in de afgelopen maand in totaal circa 13,4 miljoen keer via internet bekeken. Een jaar geleden bleef de teller in januari nog staan op 5,9 miljoen.

Uitgesteld

Het bereik van televisieprogramma's op internet gaat vanaf mei 2008 door Stichting KijkOnderzoek gerapporteerd worden naast de reguliere kijkcijfers. Het uitgestelde kijkgedrag, bijvoorbeeld via een harddisk- of videorecorder, wordt sinds 1 januari dit jaar al meegenomen in de kijkcijfers.

Where is My EPG...

2008-02-10T16:51:00.000-08:00

publieke omroep

tvgids

vanavond.tv

of liever echte user generated content... op (regionale) tv:

ikoptv

2690 online TV stations listed.. of 5000.. of...

2008-02-10T16:45:00.000-08:00

wiitv has an extensive overview of TV stations per country - 2690 in total at this point in time.

and watchtvonpc.net has about 5000 channels

U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Record-Breaking Month of December

2008-02-10T16:40:00.002-08:00

U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Record-Breaking Month of December, According to comScore Video Metrix

Writer’s Strike May be Contributing to Surge in Online Video Viewing Activity

RESTON, VA, February 08, 2008 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released December 2007 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, which reaches beyond simple site visitation to measure actual online video viewing behavior. The December 2007 report revealed that U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online during the month, representing the single heaviest month for online video consumption since comScore initiated its tracking service. Top-ranked video property Google Sites saw substantial growth and extended its video market share gains, now accounting for nearly one out of every three videos viewed online.

“December represented a considerably strong month for online video viewing,” said Erin Hunter, comScore executive vice president of media and entertainment. “With the writer’s strike keeping new TV episodes from reaching the airwaves, viewers have been seeking alternatives for fresh content. It appears that online video is stepping in to help fill that void.”

Google Extends Lead in Online Video Market Share
Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property in December with 3.3 billion videos viewed (32.6 percent share of videos), gaining 1.3 share points versus the previous month. YouTube.com accounted for more than 97 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 358 million (3.5 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 340 million (3.4 percent) and Viacom Digital with 238 million (2.3 percent).
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Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Videos Viewed
December 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property                        Videos        Share (%) of
                                 (000)           Videos
Total Internet                10,156,199          100.0
Google Sites                   3,314,962           32.6
Fox Interactive Media            358,353            3.5
Yahoo! Sites                     340,409            3.4
Viacom Digital                   237,689            2.3
Microsoft Sites                  180,443            1.8
Time Warner Network              174,079            1.7
Disney Online                    123,009            1.2
ESPN                              84,839            0.8
Apple Inc.                        50,316            0.5
ABC.COM                           47,259            0.5
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*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

In total, nearly 141 million Americans viewed online video in December. Google Sites also captured the largest online video audience with 79 million unique viewers, followed by Fox Interactive Media with 43.9 million and Yahoo! Sites with 38.2 million.

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Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Unique Video Viewers
December 2007
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property                Unique Viewers           Percent of all
                            (000)              U.S. Internet Users
Total Internet             140,926                    76.7
Google Sites                 79,041                   43.0
Fox Interactive Media        43,915                   23.9
Yahoo! Sites                 38,214                   20.8
Time Warner Network          27,168                   14.8
Viacom Digital               24,504                   13.3
Microsoft Sites              20,096                   10.9
Disney Online                12,256                    6.7
ESPN                         10,004                    5.4
Apple Inc.                    9,455                    5.1
Amazon Sites                  7,734                    4.2
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*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Other notable findings from December 2007 include:

77.6 million viewers watched 3.2 billion videos on YouTube.com (41.6 videos per viewer).
40.5 million viewers watched 334 million videos on MySpace.com (8.2 videos per viewer).
Online viewers watched an average of 3.4 hours (203 minutes) of online video during the month, representing a 34-percent gain since the beginning of 2007.
The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes.
The average online video viewer consumed 72 videos.

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2008-02-10T16:40:00.001-08:00

TV kijken voor de TV... met de PC!

2008-02-10T16:38:00.001-08:00

Veoh zei dat van 23m kijkers, 40% naar TV shows kijkt op de PC, tijdens prime time... pretty damn interesting

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MSFT denkt als een kabelaar

2008-02-07T03:44:00.000-08:00

MSFT GAAT VOOR CONTENT

was het vroeger de kabelaar die de tollgate beheerde, nu proberen partijen als msft dat te worden. Met mediaroom op de STB, en ownership van key content wordt het net een kabelaar model: beheer de sleutel tot het scherm thuis en beheer een sleutel tot de content, en subs worden naar je toe gedreven...

of is dit een community-driven world waar we zelf bepalen wat we kijken, betalen voor de aansluiting en meedoen aan onze eigen reclame? Ik bedoel: Hyves TV, who needs MSFT?

HyvesTV

2008-02-06T13:38:00.001-08:00

zie ook: Frankwatching

Hyves op TV & TV op Hyves

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KPN all-IP

2008-02-06T13:35:00.000-08:00

Zie emerce bericht

Logisch: de IP capaciteit van kabelaars is hoger, maar kabelaars beginnen nu langzamerhand te ontdekken dat MHP en OCAP ingehaald gaan worden door IP en IP gerelateerde technieken. Dus: KPN moet opschieten anders doet de kabelaar het wel en is IPTV ineens ook een product van de kabelaars.... Time will tell.

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