Dienstag
Jul182006
TV vs. YouTube
18.Jul.2006 | 14:13
Jeff Jarvis makes an interesting observation:
At the same time that Nielsen announces that the TV networks had their lowest ratings in recorded history — averaging 20 million viewers at a time — YouTube announces that it’s serving 100 million videos a day.
Insert apocalyptic punchline here.
Reader Comments (2)
Just read (in an ordinary paperbased newspaper), that in 1903 there were a climax of 1.16 billion picture postcards sent a year - today there are 1 billion emails sent a day only by Germany largest carrier T-Online.
We had the same with digital music and digital photography. This year global player Minolta announced the closing of its photography department after more than 100 years....
It's only a question of time till TV stations of old fashion are going down and professional on demand IPTV will rise to a common standard.
Oliver Wünsche wrote:
"Mass culture isn't so mass anymore. Instead, culture is evolving into a "mass of niches"".
Quote from the article: "The extinction of mass culture" from Marc Gunther, where he writes about the new book from Chris Anderson: "The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more.
Article: http://tinyurl.com/ldve6
Book at amazon:http://tinyurl.com/o3s6o
Personally, I do not believe that mass culture will vanish. I think it is diversity and variety within the main stream. Whatever, it is freaking interesting.