2002 - 2004 Global Streaming Media Marketplace Trends Report

The 2002-2004 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? 2006+
• 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 stream video to the web directly?
• By when do you expect your facility to encode video for the web?
• By when do you expect facility to do original web video (vs. repurposed)?
• By when do you expect to see anti-piracy technology would prevent TV content from being redistributed?
• 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 will you use MPEG-4?
• By when do you expect your facility to use media storage for web video?
• 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?

• Do you expect to choose a NLE system based on the degree of streaming media support and features?
• For each of the following web video stages, do you do in-house, and/or outsource, currently and by 2004? (Content creation; Encoding; Streaming; Other – Specify)

• Which Internet streaming video service providers do you use / expect to use for:
  Content creation; Encoding; Streaming; Webcast; Other – Specify

• Regarding revenue models, which of the following sources do you use / expect to use?
  Advertising; E-tail; Pay-per-view/stream Subscriptions; None; Other – specify

• 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 – specify

• Where is streaming media being used in your facility?
  intranet (internal use only); corporate web site (public domain) DVD content; Interactive projects ; Other – specify

• Please rate each of the following buying criteria for streaming applications in terms of importance to you? (extremely, very, somewhat, not very, not at all )
  Ease of use (easy interface); Ease of installation in environment; Overall functionality; Codec support; Floating licenses; Platform support (Mac, Windows, etc.); Price; Brand; Other – specify

• By when do you foresee implementing more web streaming media into your environment?

• Please check all of the streaming video applications, which your facility engages in / expects to engage in.
  Commercials / promos; real-time approvals from clients in remote locations; Corporate communications (speeches, announcements, etc); real estate ; direct email marketing; sales and marketing ; distance learning; sports ; entertainment ; streaming email ; fashion TV ; surveillance ; film trailers, promos; training; game development; tourism; interactive ; video conferencing; live events ; video on demand; music videos; virtual tours ; news & information delivery (ex: multimedia news bulletins); web video press kits; product info, launches other – specify ;

• What obstacles do you see facing users of streaming video?
  Bandwidth; Plug-in downloads; Frame skipping HTML/Java issues; Quality; Technical ; Other – specify

• How often do you stream audio / video to the web?
  More than 1 per day; Every few days; 1 per week; Every couple of weeks; 1 per month; Less than 1 per month

• Do you truly stream your video content with dedicated streaming server software, or is it just posted for http downloading?
  Dedicated streaming; HTTP Downloading; Other – specify

• Which media player do you use currently – expect to use in ?
  Windows Media Player; RealOne; MusicMatch; WinAmp ; QuickTime; Divx Player; iTunes; Other – specify

• Which codecs/formats do you use/expect to use for streaming media?
  QuickTime; RealSystems (RealNetworks); Windows Media Player MPEG-2; MPEG-4; Sorenson ; Other – specify

• In preparing video for streaming, what degree of difficulty, if any, do you experience with each of the following aspects? (not at all, not very, somewhat, very, extremely, unsure)
  Content creation tools; Compression quality ; Encoding time ; Implementation ; Other – specify

• What applications are currently installed in your facility that would interface with streaming media?
  Adobe Illustrator; Adobe Photoshop; Macromedia Director; Other design applications – (List); Other infrastructure applications – (List); Macromedia Shockwave; Microsoft web packages; Microsoft SQL server;

• Did your facilitiy's budget for Streaming Media Equipment (Hardware / Software) increase, decrease or remain the same in 2001 compared to 2000?

• Do you expect this to increase, decrease or remain the same in 2002, compared to 2001?

• Did your facilitiy's budget for Streaming Media Services (Encoding, Hosting)increase, decrease or remain the same in 2001 compared to 2000?

• Do you expect this to increase, decrease or remain the same in 2002,compared to 2001?

• Please check your facility's approximate budget for the following:

• Streaming Media Equipment (Hardware / Software) Budgets for 2002.

• Streaming Media Services (Encoding, Hosting) Budgets for 2002.

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