Commentary
Monetizing Massive Growth
- by Tyler Willis , June 10, 2009
There are many fascinating current trends in video, mobile and consumer vs. business Internet usage highlighted in this study. For example, here are some other fun facts taken from the report's executive summary:
-- The sum of all forms of video (TV, video on demand, Internet, and P2P) will account for over 91% of global consumer traffic by 2013.
·- It would take well over half a million years for one person to watch all the online video that will cross the network each month in 2013.
·- Video communications traffic (video chat and video calling) will increase tenfold from 2008 to 2013.
This massive growth raises the important issue of which business models will be poised to take advantage of this trend. While video advertising is predicted to increase steadily, especially as television dollars move online, it won't increase large enough to meet the new demand. According to eMarketer, online video advertising spending is projected to increase by less than 30% yearly into 2010.
There's an urgent need for new business models that will help the market monetize this massive increase in attention. In my last column, I discussed the subscription model, which works well with video communications and provides a potential way to monetize live video and video on demand, but may face serious pitfalls when it comes to other video products (although fellow Video Insider Steve Robinson has written an insightful article about how to change this).
There are many other monetization models out there. I'm guessing that you are likely engaged in crafting, testing, and refining the next models that will define how we pay for the consumption of video. I invite you to discuss your models in the comments. You tell us: What's our future going to look like?
All you need to do better is to connect all the pieces of information fragments that are lying across from video stories and static web stories. Guess how many static web pages are there by now? Google made a boat load of money from that only. Now its the time of dynamic and movable content. Story telling is now communicative in all senses and also through a medium that has proved its scalability in static presentation.
To get on the upcurve and devise a profitable model, one has to build that connectivity where video content is talking to static content and vice versa. Once you blend the boundaries between static delivery and dynamic delivery and make that conversation seamless, business models will develop by themselves.
Our business model at Me!Box is engagement based. Our comprehension is that humans love to engage, interact, explore, and delve deeper when they can relate things according to their needs, understanding and classification. Our model is a blend of several that are easily customizable by our clients. They demand how they want to engage their audience and how they would like to monetize. There is no and will be no FITS ALL SIZE business model in this theater!