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.
Web video company Guba.com and reformed video file sharer BitTorrent are leading a pack of video download sites proliferating throughout the US, with both sites signing deals with movie studios and film production companies.
Guba.com has now stitched up rental and purchase video deals with both
Warner and Sony, while BiTorrent also has a deal with Warner. Apple has
already entered the TV shows download market through iTunes and is
trying to stitch up a Hollywood deal, with the only real sticking point
being price.
The major internet players Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are expecting to
be shoe-ins to enter the market, while social networking sites such as
myspace and YouTube are possible entrants because of their huge traffic.
Microsoft is already part owner of movie site CinemaNow, together with
Cisco, Lions Gate and video chain Blockbuster. However, it could well
compete with iTunes on video downloads using an expanded collaboration
with MTV on their joint Urge music download service.
There also a plethora of smaller sites are starting to offer downloads.
Movie studios appear to be losing their fear of piracy, realising there
is a potential bonanza to be made from a potential audience of hundreds
of millions who are growing increasingly used to buying their
entertainment online.
The potential to move far greater quantities of product online than at
physical locations makes video downloads an inevitable go to market
proposition for movie companies in the digital age.
David Bass
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