I've been slow this week to read my feeds, and Gens Johnson of my staff beat me to a post by Laurie Sullivan of Om Malik's great NewTeeVee blog. She writes:
... iSuppli, a market research firm, projects that professionally produced video will will bring in nearly $5.9 billion in revenues in 2011, up from $423 million in 2006. ¶ At present 3- to 10-minute videos are popular because they can be downloaded quickly over today’s broadband networks, running at typically 3 megabits per second in the U.S., and 8 megabits in other parts of the world. As speeds soar past 20 megabits per second, longer form videos could be downloaded quickly. Longer videos would mean more advertising opportunities. ¶ The professionally produced video business, including professionally produced and distributed advertising-supported news, sports and entertainment, will account for 79.3 billion streams worldwide by 2011 up from 3.7 billion streams in 2006, iSuppli projects. ...
Link: NewTeeVee. Thanks, Gens. --Dennis
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