Digital Media - Online Video Media

Synopsis

Video applications over broadband have emerged over the last couple years as Internet media companies and content producers seek to exploit the added speed and capacity of broadband infrastructure. The killer application on these networks is video based communication, mainly produced by users themselves. Online video consumption is already producing promising statistics with Google’s YouTube becoming a worldwide leader. New business models continue to emerge around the world as the players competing in the digital media space begin to seriously take note. This report provides an introduction to online Video Media entertainment and includes analyses, trends and statistics. For information on DVRs and IPTV, see separate reports.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Introduction: the power of online video media
  
• 3. Rapidly changing video comms market
  
• 4. Online video media versus IPTV
  
  • 4.1 Advantages of online video media
    
• 5. Key trends and business models
  
  • 5.1 Killer applications: personal video
    
  • 5.2 Telepresence
    
  • 5.3 Video iPods
    
  • 5.4 Video-On-Demand
    
  • 5.5 Streaming content into the home
    
  • 5.6 TV shows on the Internet
    
    • 5.6.1 Hulu
      
    • 5.6.2 BBC iPlayer
      
    • 5.6.3 ABC iView
      
  • 5.7 TiVo and YouTube set to make waves
    
  • 5.8 Joost and Bablegum beyond the hype
    
  • 5.9 Long-tail services from JumpTV and Jalipo
    
  • 5.10 Fabchannel
    
  • 5.11 Of The World TV
    
  • 5.12 Geo-blocking
    
• 6. Video media statistics and forecasts
  
• 7. Backgrounder: video streaming/online video
  
  • 7.1 What is streaming video?
    
  • 7.2 Other forms of VoD
    
  • 7.3 Streaming media standards by 1999
    
  • 7.4 Broadband networks key to breakthrough
    
  • 7.5 Narrowband videostreaming didn’t quite make it
    
  • 7.6 Streaming HD video
    
  • 7.7 The International Webcasting Association (IWA)
    
• 8. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks
  
  • 8.1 File sharing networks
    
  • 8.2 Bittorrent combines P2P technology
    
  • 8.3 Influence on Internet resources
    
  • 8.4 Commercialisation of P2P services
    
• 9. Conclusion: The future of video in telecoms
  
• 10. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Worldwide revenue from online video – 2008; 2012
• Table 2 – Online video streams – top 6 online video properties in US – 2007; 2009

• Exhibit 1 – Equivalence between access modes and traditional audiovisual use
• Exhibit 2 – All broadcaster video portal - Australia