UGC Streaming Vs TV

Taken from Business Insider's Chart of the Day
YouTube's Revenue Is Catching Up With TV Networks
By Dave Smith, Dec. 8, 2014

Speaking at Business Insider’s IGNITION Conference last week, IAC chairman Barry Diller predicted a major shakeup in the cable and satellite TV model within the next five to 10 years. It looks like digital streaming is already beginning to catch up to traditional TV networks, at least in terms of revenue.

YouTube’s annual ad revenue has been rapidly catching up to that of CBS, one of the biggest and most lucrative TV networks, and has more than twice as much revenue as AMC, which owns several popular shows including “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead.” But CBS hopes to maintain and increase its lead over YouTube by embracing a new model: the company recently announced it’ll have a streaming subscription service available next year that’ll let you watch shows for a monthly fee, similar to Netflix.

Number of Internet user in Indonesia will reach the top five

Taken from eMarketer's article

Internet to Hit 3 Billion Users in 2015
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India Rivals US as No. 2 Internet Audience

Nearly half the world's population will have regular access to the web by 2018

The number of internet users worldwide will surpass 3 billion in 2015, according to new figures from eMarketer, increasing 6.2% next year to reach 42.4% of the entire world's population.

This year, the internet will reach more than two in five people in the world for the first time as online audience hits 2.89 billion users globally. By 2018, eMarketer estimates, nearly half the world's population, or 3.6 billion people, will access the internet at least once each month.

"Inexpensive mobile phones and mobile broadband connections are driving internet access and usage in countries where fixed internet has been out of reach for consumers, whether that's due to lack of infrastructure or affordability," said Monica Peart, senior forecasting analyst at eMarketer. "While highly developed markets are nearly saturated in terms of internet users, there's significant room for growth in emerging ones; for example, India and Indonesia will both see double-digit growth in each year between now and 2018." (Later eMarketer updated the Indonesia annual growth year 2017 and 2018)

On a country-by-country basis, here are year-by-year other milestones eMarketer anticipates during our forecast period:

2014: Brazil will supplant Japan as fourth-largest internet user population

2015: Mexico will settle firmly into the eighth spot, eclipsing Germany

2016: India will jump the US as the second-largest internet user population

2017: Indonesia will reach the top five, overtaking Japan

2018: China will eclipse three-quarters of a billion users, after showing accelerating growth in each year in our forecast

Indonesia will surpass Japan but remain behind Brazil

In Indonesia, eMarketer already estimates penetration is higher than it will be in India by the end of forecast period. But that also means slower growth in the country, which has the fourth-largest overall population and the sixth-largest internet population this year.

Destined to outpace Japan, but not Brazil, in internet market size by 2017, Indonesia will continue to grow its internet penetration until reaching nearly 47% in 2018. Double-digit growth will be over, however, by 2016, when about two in five residents is online.

While substantial compared to most other countries in the world, the Indian and Indonesian internet markets will continue to be dwarfed by China’s for the foreseeable future.

Regulation does matter

Taken from The Economic Times's article

This business case remind us that Business Model need to be ensured with the Legal aspect and Regulation Compliance, though sometimes the regulatory issue is possible to be revised for the sake of consumer benefit.

Internet TV startup Aereo Inc files for bankruptcy

Reuters Nov 23, 2014

NEW YORK: Aereo Inc, the online video streaming company backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

The Chapter 11 filing on Thursday night came five months after the US Supreme Court said Aereo violated broadcasters' copyrights by capturing live and recorded programmes on miniature antennas and transmitting them to subscribers who paid $8 to $12 a month. That decision effectively forbade New York-based Aereo's business model, an attempt to offer a less-expensive alternative to cable television.

Chief executive officer Chet Kanojia said the court decision created "regulatory and legal uncertainty" that proved insurmountable. "A little over three years ago, the team at Aereo set out to build a better television experience for the consumer," Kanojia said in a blog post. "We knew we had touched a nerve, had created something special, and had a built something meaningful for consumers." Ultimately, he said, "the challenges have proven too difficult to overcome." In a filing with the US Bankruptcy Court in New York, chief financial officer Ramon Rivera said getting protection from creditors should provide "necessary breathing room" for Aereo to sell its assets, recapitalize or restructure.

The privately held company had been trying to persuade regulators to declare it eligible for a licence available to cable systems, but Rivera said the timing was "uncertain."

Broadband's Equal access

CommunicAsia2011

Fixed broadband household penetration in developing markets is on track to pass the 50% mark by the end of the decade.
 
But the region is home to a mix of mature, emerging and youth markets. In Asia at the country level, it is clear that the international digital divide will remain a fact of life to the end of the decade and beyond. If you look more closely at the differences between cities and rural areas the divides are even greater. The national challenges are not so much how to deliver ever-faster broadband services but how to provide them across whole countries.
  
A year ago the ITU called on governments of the world to push for 50% global broadband penetration by 2015. The number of internet users doubled between 2004 and 2009, with global internet penetration hitting 26% – but only one in ten homes in developing countries had access to the internet.

The deployment of next-generation networks, using a combination of technologies across the region, is allowing service providers to deliver innovative offerings to their users who have pent-up demand for services such as multi-play packages, IPTV, fixed-mobile convergence and sophisticated enterprise solutions.
 
Factors that shaping this dynamic market include gross national income, the growth of urban populations, national regulatory environments and the spending plans and policies of governments in the region. For fixed broadband to be competitive and affordable to the masses, it’s essential that competition in broadband markets is free and fair.

Next Generation Broadband Tracks | CommunicAsia2011

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