Goodbye Internet Golden Age…It Was Fun
Posted by Rey
Let me break down some numbers for you that I gathered from both the Barna Group and the US Census site. As of 2005 84% of all US adults own a DVD player. About 30% of Americans own a laptop. Two-thirds of US households have Internet access. 19% owned an ipod or an mp3 player.
This was Three years ago.
Over this period of three years we’ve seen Ppods get the ability to play movies, we’ve seen the iTunes store go to an online movie purchasing portal and we’ve seen the likes of Netflix influence every single TV network and start offering streaming video directly to your computer. More college students are catching up on their shows online instead of on TV and the amount of video traffic has increased exponentially with the likes of YouTube thrown into the picture.
All this free content…who is making the money? No one…yet…
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