You Tube Users Are Watching Less Television

Harris Interactive have released a new poll gauging the online viewing habits of American adults. The survey was completed by 2,309 online Americans for Harris Interactive in December 2006. They found that nearly 16% of those surveyed were regular YouTube users and of these one in three stated that they are actually watching less traditional television because of the time they spend on YouTube.

The survey also found that 42% of the surveyed American adults had watched an online video at YouTube and that 14% would consider themselves regular users.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on February 12th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, Facts, News Comment

UK Podcast Downloads up 15% - its official…

The latest radio listener survey statistics collated by the Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR), the UK’s definitive radio audience survey make for some very encouraging reading indeed!

The findings revealed that radio listening is at an all time high with more than 45 million people tuning in every week. What was really positive is that this growth has been attributed to the fact that more and more people are listening to radio through the internet or via mobile phones or portable devices. The number of people listening via mobile phones was up by 24% and listening via the internet was up 10 per cent .

The figures also included statistics for podcasts and…. over the last 3 months the number of people downloading and listening to podcasts has significantly increased to 2.1 million people representing a significant increase of over 15% over the last quarter.

The fact that the internet and mobile devices are responsible for these increases means that its only a matter of time before listeners discover other, “on-demand” media on offer.

Shouldn’t you be Podcasting? Now is the time to get it out there and watch your audience figures snowball.

Posted by DJ Wayne on February 5th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, Facts, News Comment

IBM podcasts have revolutionised their business

Last year computing giant IBM decided that it was time to jump on board with podcasting to see what it could do for them. They began with a simple idea for a show called “IBM and the future of…..” featuring its scientists and staff gaining their soapboxes to discuss worldly topics from driving to urban planning.  Even with these early forays into podcasting, IBM managed to log 40,000 downloads during the first three months. The series now has six instalments available.

The success of the “Future” series has since lead IBM to look at other ways to harness the power of podcasting and released a tool for uploading audio files and syndicating them via RSS feeds on an internal system. By publishing a podcasting policy, IBM sat back and waited to see what its 7000 employees would create.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on February 1st, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, Facts, News Comment

Internet TV expected for 162 million households

There’s more compelling evidence of the rapid growth of online video announced on the back of the Apple TV launch at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week.

The Diffusion Group published their latest report on IP Media entitled Broadband Media: Redefining the Television Experience, where senior analyst and author Colin Dixon predicts that by 2011, 162 million households worldwide will have access to online video via their primary household TV. The report predicts that the future still lies with the distribution of online video content via setup simialar set-top boxes, broadband enabled games consoles and media centre like the Apple TV and Microsoft Windows Media Center.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on January 15th, 2007|Categories: News Comment

The Latest Way to Make Time for Podcasts

It’s a common miscomception amongst those new to the medium that podcasts can only be listened to on Apples iPod device. Indeed, the iPod is the namesake of podcasting and hugely popular but the majority of podcast subscribers still listen to most podcast content on their computers.

There are of course other ways too, there are other brands of mp3 players and of course mobile phones.

But now, thanks to a partnership between manufacturer Skullcandy McGyver and mypodder you can now listen to podcasts on your wristwatch!!!

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Posted by DJ Wayne on January 10th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, FAQ, Facts, News Comment

Online Video is where we will see most future growth

A recent article on Market Watch makes a number of predictions about online in 2007, two of which keep ringing a very loud bell in my head… Online Video Video Video…

We have already seen that sites like YouTube and Google Video have proved exceptionally popular. With bandwidth speeds getting quicker and quicker and new technologies like p2p and divx helping to deliver video quicker and easier than before, clearly the meeting of improved technology and faster downloads with make watching video online second nature by early 2008.

Watch out for new developments like the Venice Project from the guys that brought us Skype, I’ve played with the beta and its and amazing tool. Get on the beta programme if you can!

So here are the comments from Market Watch I mentioned. If you are not already looking at video as an integral part of your online activity, YOU SHOULD BE!

Video is king, plus other predictions

  1. Video will drive online advertising. It’s estimated that about 37% of all marketing dollars go toward commercials. On the Internet, about 2.6% of all advertising is spent on video advertisements. That number is expected to rise to 4% this year, according to eMarketer. Clearly, the gap will close.
  2. The video business will be bigger than print online. In the offline world, the business of video is far larger than the business of print. The market — advertising, cable subscriptions, VOD, pay-per-view, fees, etc. — for television networks/cable and television distribution is roughly $168 billion, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The market — subscriptions and advertising — for newspapers and magazines is roughly $100 billion.
Posted by Digital Andy on January 10th, 2007|Categories: News Comment

Commercial Radio In Talks Over Podcasting Music

Commercially available music could soon be legally appearing in podcasts if recent talks between Radio Centre and the music rights organisations prove successful.

The deal with the PPL who collect royalties for artists and labels, will allow radio stations to podcast 30 seconds of music (excluding voice-overs). It will be available to commercial radio stations as a one year blanket license and looks set to cost them around £100,000. On top of this, commercial radio will have to secure the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS) licenses. This is likely to bring the total cost to £210,000.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on January 8th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, Facts, News Comment

Podcasting is crowned!

St Edward's CrownThis year for the first time, Britains great Queen Elizabeth will podcast her annual Christmas message! Good work Liz!

Royal fans can now subscribe to have the Queen’s Speech automatically downloaded onto their MP3 players at 3pm on December 25, when it is traditionally broadcast across the Commonwealth.

If anyone tells me that Podcasting has not reached the main stream, I’m gunna stick this in their pipe and make them smoke it!

Posted by Digital Andy on December 22nd, 2006|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment

Radio Needs Podcasting to Increase Audiences

Last week media research group Arbitron held their conference panel in Columbia, USA to discuss the future of audience growth within the radio industry. Traditional radio, especially  in the United States is going through extreme changes.

Competition for listeners between stations is becoming more intense and podcasting is starting to steal listeners attention, as a result listening times and numbers have declined.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on December 20th, 2006|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment

Online Video Sales – A Billion $ Business

online videoBy the end of 2007 the market for online sales of TV shows, movies and other pre-recorded video will grow to $1.5 billion further  evidence of the amazing growth and potential of online, on-demand media, a prediction by Strategy Analytics.

Next year will be seen as the turning point where online sales of pre-recorded video finally become big business with online distribution emerging as a viable and important medium for content producers.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on December 20th, 2006|Categories: Chit Chat, Facts, News Comment