The 2000-2002 Global Streaming Media Marketplace Trends Report are now available. Data for the report was derived from extensive surveys of broadcast, professional video/film production/post and streaming media facilities, worldwide.

All data is shown in total and by vertical market (broadcast, video production, video/film post; multimedia, streaming; corporate, institutional; other) and by region (North America; Europe; Rest of World). Report includes an extensive analysis by total, as well as by vertical market and region.

The report contains data and analysis covering the following section and questions:

INDUSTRY TRENDS

• By when do you expect to see broadcast video quality on the internet?
• By when do you expect to see long-format movies on the web?
• By when do you think streaming video will reach the 65%-70% threshold in the home?
• By when do you think the majority of web users will have access to higher-speed connecitons (higher than 56K)
• By when do you expect the majority of users will utlize wireless transmission?

  FACILITY USAGE TRENDS

• By when do you expect your facility to produce streaming audio content for the web?
• By when do you expect your facility to produce streaming video content for the web?
• By when do you expect your facility to stream audio to the web directly?
• By when do you expect your facility to encode video for the web?
• By when do you expect your facility to stream video to the web directly?
• By when do you expect facility to do original web video (vs. repurposed)?
• By when do you expect facility to purchase a dedicated streaming media server?
• By when do you expect facility to produce interactive web video?
• By when do you expect facility be using streaming video ad insertion?
• By when do you expect to have a need for real-time encoding?
• By when do you expect your facility to use a digital video editor?
• By when do you expect to chose a NLE system based on the degree of streaming media support and features?
• By when do you expect you facility to use a digital audio editor?
• By when do you expect your facility to use media storage for web video?
• By when do you expect your facility to have a PC with a soundcard that is connected to the internet?
• By when do you expect to your facility to provide streaming video hosting services on your site?
• By when do you expect your facility to produce 3D animation for the web?
• By when do you expect your facility to add e-commerce to web video?
• By when do you expect to your facility to be earning revenue from the web?
• By when do you expect your facility to be streaming on an intranet / corporate LAN?
• By when do you expect the web to be a viable extension of a video network or facility infrastructure?
• If and when you decide to transmit video on the Internet, will you be inclined to: suggest, recommend, implement, personally involved with production either building the system or turnkey.

  CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND REVENUE TRENDS

• What percentage of your streaming video is original content and what percentage is repurposed, currently?
• What do you expect to be doing by 2002?
• For content creation, do you do in-house, and/or outsource, currently?
• What do you expect to be doing by 2002?
• For encoding, do you do in-house, and/or outsource, currently?
• What do you expect to be doing by 2002?
• For streaming, do you do in-house, and/or outsource, currently?
• What do you expect to be doing by 2002?
• Which Internet streaming video applications service providers (ASP's) do you use / expect to use for Content creation?
• Which Internet streaming video applications service providers (ASP's) do you use / expect to use for Encoding?
• Which Internet streaming video applications service providers (ASP's) do you use / expect to use for Streaming?
• Which Internet streaming video applications service providers (ASP's) do you use / expect to use for Webcasting?
• Regarding revenue models, what percentage do you expect from each source (Advertising E-tail, Pay-per-view, Subscriptions), currently?
• Regarding revenue models, what percentage do you expect from each source, currently and by 2002?
• How do you currently obtain or sell content? (contract for production, portal approach, purchase through syndication model, other)
• What % of bandwidth within streaming media is used by your facility for each type (music, video, audio, other) currently?
• What do you expect by 2002?
• How often do you stream audio / video to the web?
• Do you truly stream your video content with dedicated streaming server software, or is it just posted for http downloading?
• How many minutes of audio do you currently / expect to stream per month?
• How many minutes of video do you currently / expect to stream per month?
• How many video streams do you currently / expect to stream per month?
• How many audio streams do you currently / expect to stream per month?
• How much revenue ($) do you currently / expect to stream to earn per month?

  STREAMING VIDEO APPLICATIONS

• Please check all of the streaming video applications which your facility engages in/ expects to engage in?
• commercials / promos
• company press releases
• direct email marketing
• distance learning
• entertainment
• fashion tv
• films
• game devlelopment
• interactive
• live events
• music videos
• news coverage
• product information
• real-time approvals from clients in remote locations
• real estate
• sales and marketing
• sports
• streaming email
• surveillance
• training
• tourism
• video conferencing
• video on demand
• virtual tours
• web video press kits
• other

  CODECS

• Which CODECS do you use to encode video for streaming?
• Which CODECS do you use for web video streaming to internet?
• Which CODECS offer the best flexibility in compression?
• Which CODECS offer the best sys. admin. integration for server streaming?

  PLATFORMS

• Which platforms do you use for video streaming for server platforms?
• Which platforms do you use for video streaming for client platforms?
• What type of computer network/protocol does you facility have currently?
• What type of computer network/protocol do you expect to have by 2002?
• Which air compressed audio files do you use?

  FORMATS / BANDWIDTH

• Which video format do you use for streaming currently?
• Which video format do you expect to use for streaming by 2002?
• Which camcorder format/s do you use for streaming currently?
• Which camcorder format/s do you expect to be using by 2002?
• Which interfaces do you use currently?
• Which interfaces do you expect to use by 2002?
• What is the range of bandwidth you require?

  BUDGETS

• Streaming Media Equipment (Hardware / Software) Budgets for 2000
• Streaming Media Services (Encoding, Hosting) Budgets for 2000

  PROBLEMS

• What obstacles do you see facing users of streaming video? (Bandwidth, plug-in-downloads, frame skipping, html/java, quality, technical, etc.)
• What problems do you face when managing content flow? (digital asset management, security / digital rights management, lack of good revenue model, lack of good content management / infrastructure, other).
• In preparing video for streaming, what degree of difficulty, if any, do you experience with each of the following aspects?
• Content creation tools
• Compression quality
• Encoding time
• Implementation
• Specify problems

  PRODUCT PURCHASING TRENDS

• Which source/s do you purchase/plan to purchase your streaming media software from?
• Which source/s do you purchase/plan to purchase your streaming media hardware from?
• Sources include: manufacturer direct; video dealer; video distibutor; pc dealer; pc distibutor
• How do you plan to purchase your streaming media software?
• How do you plan to purchase your streaming media hardware?
• Sources include: salesperson; telesales; internet; catalog; other.

  COST - WITH FULL WRITTEN ANALYSIS
  (Total, Vertical Market, and Region/Country)

• Full Report - All Sections $3,750
• Per Section - $750
• Per Question - $150

  COST - DATA, CHARTS ONLY
  (Total, Vertical Market, and Region/Country)

• Full Report - All Sections $2,125
• Per Section - $475
• Per Question - $95
  
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