vice president of Amazon Prime told Bloomberg Businessweek magazine
2009, Amazon had 2 million Prime member
selection is not as large as Netflix's, it can p
rime members would get to read a limited number of books for free every month from a library of older titles as part of their annual $79 Prime membership fee
Spanish court said it was the responsibility of the copyright owner to identify and tell Google when material that infringes intellectual property is on YouTube
In June this year Google won a similar case against US media conglomerate Viacom,
Google could not be held liable for having a "general awareness" that copyrighted videos might be posted to the site.
Middle East and Africa will have the strongest growth
United Kingdom-based O2 reported that its mobile data traffic
Telecom Italia
AT&T has re
Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast,
.6 exabytes per month by 2014, and over 2.3 of those are due to mobile video traffic.
3.6 Exabytes per Month of Mobile Data Traffic by 2014
Video Will Account for 66 Percent of Global Mobile Data Traffic by 2014
Figure 3 shows the devices responsible for mobile data traffic growth.
Smartphones and portables will account for 91 percent of all mobile data traffic by 2014
rimarily due to the much higher usage profile of laptops and the suitability of mobile broadband handsets
Laptops and Smartphones Drive Traffic Growth
ercentage of Install Base of Smartphones over all Mobile Handsets
igh-End Handsets and Laptops Can Multiply Traffic
Much mobile data activity takes place within the user's home. A
Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group
45.6%
36.6%
United Kingdom
Mobile Internet Time at Home, at Work and On The Move
Cisco IBSG Connected Life Market Watch
Cisco has estimated the amount of smartphone traffic that can be offloaded through dual-mode devices or femtocells
Traffic Offload
. Mobile-Only Data Users by Country, 2009-2014
social augmented reality
next five years are projected to provide unabated mobile video adoption despite the recen
Global Mobile Data Traffic 2009-2014
Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic
nforma Telecoms and Media, Infonetics, Cahners In-Stat, Datamonitor, Gartner, IDC, Dell'Oro, Synergy, Nielsen, comScore, and the International Telecommunications Union
Some analysts question whether VoD can be as profitable as broadcast TV. The dual costs of piping internet video into the home and licensing content from producers - both paid out on a per-view basis - "may call into question the level of profits that can be made in the long term" from VoD, says David Cockram of Oliver & Ohlbaum, a media consultancy. "More people are taking more of the pie."
Broadcasters already have to pay companies providing "content delivery networks" to ensure their on-demand programming reaches viewers in good quality and without loading-time delays mid-video. Every time a programme is viewed online through their VoD services, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other broadcasters pay a CDN provider such as Akamai, Level 3 or, soon, BT.
Today, one half-hour programme costs between 2p and 5p to stream through a CDN every time it is viewed. That may not sound much, but with the BBC iPlayer serving up almost 60m TV shows in November, a broadcaster's CDN costs could already exceed £1m a month.
iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
Actual Availability,
scaling to 1.5 million users,
15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
"As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
platform capable
the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
largely theoretical problem
iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
addition of course to any external activity.
solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
expandable Favourites zone
designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
Personalised iPlayer home page
default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
Featured and Most Popular
For You and Friends:
iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
My Categories
he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
new Live Viewing page
fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
sync your iPlayer with theirs
Shout button - a
shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
adaptive bitrate system
ch automatically adjusts
Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
New iPlayer Desktop
Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Investment in new mobile networks in North America helped
lift the overall mobile network equipment market 25 percent
above the year-ago level, showing the fastest growth since 2004,
Dell'Oro said.
tween four and five members and sent 650 messages in the two months or so of the campaign. Plus, 38 percent of the groups continue to be active after the season ended.