OK, it’s a provocative headline, and while I don’t for a minute think Avid are deliberately setting out to sell out editors, it may be an inevitable result of inevitable technological innovation.
Category: Business
Web Original News Video Get Twice the Views as TV Clips http://t.co/MHcBBP3o
An interesting data point from Stokes Young, and Executive Producer at MSNBC:
Video news created exclusively for the Web gets about twice as many streams online as videos clips from broadcast programming, says Stokes Young, Executive Producer of MSNBC.com in this interview with Beet.TV
Note how important transcripts have been to improving the findability of the clips.
More Movies Will Be Streamed Than Watched On Disc In 2012 http://t.co/6oOvgKnG And that’s the legal viewings!
Legal online viewings of films will more than double to 3.4 billion this year from 1.4 billion in 2011, IHS said today in a statement. Physical viewings of DVDs and Blu-ray discs will shrink to 2.4 billion from 2.6 billion, according to the forecast.
Unlimited-streaming subscription plans, including those offered by Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN)’s Prime service, accounted for 94 percent of all paid online movie consumption in the U.S. last year, Englewood, Colorado-based IHS said. Streamed movies have been replacing video discs, much as streamed music is overtaking compact audio discs.
Of course, that’s little solace if your client(s) still demand shiny discs!
Glenn Beck Says Walking Away From Fox Will Get Him $40 Million A Year http://t.co/qmonMcw3
Although the audience is much smaller – 300,000 subscribers vs 2.5 million viewers on Fox – the revenue is dramatically larger. Â I think this, along with the recent Louis CK experience, supports the theme that direct connection with an audience and giving them something to pay for they want (in this case access to Beck) is a viable option for future funding of production.
Personally, I loath Beck and what he stands for, but I support his First Amendment Right to be a what he is.
GBTV, which jumped on the scene in September, is expected to bring in at least $40 million in revenue this year, supported by advertising and more than 300,000 subscribers paying as much as $9.95 a month for full access to GBTV, according to a person close to the company.
Rumblefish’s Friendly Music relaunches with 750k licensed songs http://t.co/Eh05ehpr $1.99 per track for YouTube videos. All licensed, apparently only for YouTube, though.
One tool Friendly Music has added is a MoodMap, which lets users search for a soundtrack based on the feeling of the video they’ve created. By clicking within a rainbow-like circle, they can find songs that match a certain mood, which refines things a bit. There’s also a “What’s the Occasion†tab for finding soundtracks relevant to certain holidays and occasions. And finally, Friendly Music has an editorially curated Editor’s Picks, with songs focusing specifically on current events, pop culture or upcoming holidays.
Would be nice to get this level of simplicity (and cost) in licensing music for other applications. Until then, there’s Smartsound!
Update: On Twitter Chad Haberstroh @haberchad pointed out that jewelbeat.com has 35,000 tracks licensed for commercial use for 99c each.
The RIAA & MPAA Say That A Copy Is Just As Valuable As The Original, Send Them A Copy Of Money http://t.co/2mQuXN8C
OK, it’s totally tongue-in-cheek but it’s fun!
A guy by the name of Jake Gold set up SendThemYourMoney.com, which is a site encouraging you to send “money” to the RIAA/MPAA. But… by “money” he means “copies” of money, since the RIAA/MPAA’s whole argument is based on the idea that a copy is no different than the original.
The war on H.264 is over: “We lost,” says Mozilla at Apple Insider
Thank Goodness, sanity finally prevails! In fact Mozilla’s previous approach – holding out for Ogg or WebM codecs – had the unfortunate side effect of driving even more people to the very closed Flash for distribution of H.264 in FireFox. Exactly the opposite of what the Mozilla folk wanted.
I’ve long said that H.264 is “one codec to rule them all” (because it scales so well) and it’s about time Mozilla realized that the world really only wants one codec. Well, really users just don’t want to care about codecs at all!
Amazon takes the lead in TV Streaming? http://t.co/EgmogLR8
Interesting statistic that Amazon Prime now has over 17,000 shows (movies and TV) with the addition of more titles from Discovery’s networks.
Amazon also notes that there are now over 17,000 titles now available for streaming, and more than 120,000 available for rent or purchase through Amazon Instant Video. Last month, when Amazonsigned a similar deal with Viacom, the number of streaming titles was brought up to 15,000, so this is a notable boost in content. For what it’s worth, in December, the count was 13,000. If Amazon keeps up this pace, Amazon Instant will look a lot different by the end of 2012.
I think it’s time to sign up for Amazon Prime (finally).
20th Century Fox joins rush to produce made-for-the-Web shows http://t.co/frqh0NEi We’ll see more of this.
20th Century Fox’s small Fox Digital Entertainment produces this web-only series, but we see all sorts of money being invested in programming destined to stay outside the traditional distribution channels.
The series brings feature film production values to the Internet, a medium that a few years ago was dominated by grainy user-generated videos of skateboarding dogs and kids singing karaoke.
The series’ release underscores two of the biggest trends in media: a rush by established companies, including Sony Pictures, Netflix, Hulu and now Fox, to produce high-quality video for the Internet, and major advertisers’ demand for Hollywood-produced Internet content to promote products to young consumers who are more likely to be tethered to their laptops, tablets and smartphones than the television set.
Episode 41: The fallout from Bunim Murray’s NLE choice http://t.co/df0Yr4Am A new Terence and Philip Show
Starting with the decision to go to Media Composer at Bunim Murray, Terence and Philip discuss the state of NLEs today and the business behind them. Its a long show and it covers a lot.
Not surprisingly, Terry and I agree that Media Composer was Bunim Murray’s best choice, but from there…