Streaming media on the rise

Streaming media on the rise. The streaming media market rose 104 percent in 2003 to 7.87 billion streams — mostly from a few big aggregator platforms such as RealNetworks, ESPN, AOL and Yahoo, says a new study by Research and Markets. ¶ The analysis finds the spurt in 2003 follows two consecutive years of streaming video growth. Broadband streams made up 78 percent of total streams accessed/served in 2003, up from 63.8 percent in 2002. [Broadcast Engineering]