It’s that time of the season when the cherry blossoms are in bloom; the cardinals are frolicking with the robins; when the morning dew mingles with the morning showers; and where presidential hopefuls start putting their foot forward. Ah, can you smell feel it?
That’s right, we’re past the mid-term mark and political muscles are flexing while Presidential hopefuls aim at glomming onto any issue.
I have a problem. An addiction, even. It started off slow, tentatively with slight trepidation, and then it became a habit. It was so easy to get into and since everybody is doing it, it just felt right. I’m an emoticon addict and I’m trying to quit.
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…