Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
While that must be regarded as an improvement - sitting through a pre-roll ad only to find the content you requested is not offered to users in your geography or that it isn't as interesting as you'd expected - displaying ads "no more than once every three minutes" is hardly viewer-friendly. After all, people get annoyed by TV ads appearing every 10-15 minutes.
Yes, we know content has to be paid for, and that online videos are generally shorter than TV shows, but still...
Other changes include the option of sharing playlists with friends, the integration of professional and user-created content, and the ability to search for videos while a clip is playing.
"By increasing the discoverability of our deep catalog, making it easier to share videos with friends, and improving the advertising model, we are continuing in our mission to make video an integral part of the MSN experience," said Rob Bennett, general manager, entertainment, video and sports at MSN.
The new version has gone live in the US, and is in beta in selected countries including the UK.
Microsoft claims MSN Video attracts an audience of over 12 million unique users per month.
David Bass
| For the fourth year in a row, IDC has placed content security provider Websense (NASDAQ: WBSN) at the top of the IDC Worldwide Web Security 2011 –…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
LATEST HEADLINES FROM YOUR IT
