Video streams served increased 38.8 percent in 2006 to 24.92 billion across all entertainment media sites, including free ad supported and subscription services, according to Accustream Media’s Streaming Media Growth report, released March 6.
The largest streaming video networks included portals such as Yahoo and MSN, while traditional media brands including Disney/ABC, CBS, Viacom, TimeWarner/AOL and NBC Universal also showed a significant streaming share. Video platforms Brightcove and Roo Media also performed well.
Reflecting an increasingly competitive content environment, broadband streams per unique user per site declined 10.9 percent in 2006 to 10.6 streams, excluding video advertising streams.
Music videos commanded the largest share of streaming video, 35.5 percent of total streams, followed by news with 23.6 percent. Total news streams were up 90 percent and viewing share by 38 percent over 2005.
“Media and entertainment brands fully embraced broadband publishing in 2006,” said Accustream’s research director Paul Palumbo. “They made more premium content available and fashioned syndication relationships with aggregators who can deliver audiences. More growing base high speed users and the adoption of Flash propelled the market.”
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More