Digital Media - Online Video Streaming, iVoD and Mobile TV Insights

Digital Media - Online Video Streaming, iVoD and Mobile TV Insights

Online video streaming and is one of the fastest growing digital formats and marketers are certainly recognising it's potential. Online video streaming/web TV over the Internet is being used by many different industries for advertising, marketing, demonstration, entertainment and communication purposes. The success of Google's YouTube has been well documented and YouTube continues to dominate in terms of viewers and streaming. Netflix, initially operating in the iVOD sector alone has also entered the streaming video market and is gaining prominence and expanding internationally. Improvements in mobile technology and the introduction of smart phones have also assisted the development of mobile TV/video and we can now see it has a bright future ahead.

This report provides an insight into the key trends taking place in online and mobile video media. For information on IPTV and home networking systems, see separate report: Global IPTV, Smart TV and Digital TV Insights.

Latest developments:

Adding further competition to the already highly contested online Video-On-Demand sector; Walt Disney and Apple announced in 2014 the launch of a cloud-based service called Disney Movies Anywhere; Around a couple of billion online videos are watched worldwide each month; Online Video-On-Demand has gained the attention of Internet heavyweights Google and Facebook; the US is an interesting market to watch for VoD developments with Hulu, Netflix and Walmart Vudu just some of the players vying for position; there is a movement towards creating online video channels over the Internet aimed at target audiences and YouTube has established a number of popular channels of its own.

Companies mentioned in this report:

Google YouTube; Facebook; Netflix; Amazon; Hulu; Microsoft Zune; Walmart Vudu; Playstation; Apple; Blockbuster (Dish Network); Blinkx; Barnes and Noble; Walt Disney.