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Online Video Market Evolves, Begins Morphing Into New ‘Storytelling’ Device
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Current TV usage landscape is still dominated
by linear TV viewing—about 389 billion hours per year in 2008,
compared with only 7 billion viewing hours for online video.”
“If you look at how many people are viewing
videos online, the industry is monetizing only a small fraction of
that,” Adam Kasper, senior vice president-U.S. director of digital at
Havas’ Media Contacts unit asserted during panel of top digital media
buyers. “Right now, we’re kind of behind the adoption curve, and we’re
not taking advantage of everything that’s out there.”
“I think that’s for a good reason,” Tsai
said, “given the complexity and all the issues, and the fact that
TV—although in a little bit of a transition state—in the short-term
is still a very, very powerful medium. I think we are about where we
should be in terms of the adoption of online video as an advertising
medium.”
“Reiterating the multitude of challenges
confronting the nascent online video marketplace, Tsai implied that the
reason why Madison Avenue’s coffers have not sprung open is more a
function of the fact that the medium still is immature, and not because
“there’s some super-stodgy person holding the money somewhere.” ““Among the challenges cited by fellow panelist Jason Steinberg, director
of Publicis’ Spark Communications unit, are the fact that buyers and
sellers have not been able to strike a balance on the appropriate
cost/value relationship between online video CPMs and traditional TV
advertising costs; the lack of consistent, comparable “metrics;” and
the overall “management issue” for agencies dealing with a complex
array of professionally produced and emerging micro marketplace online
video advertising options.”
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By 2010, he projected, linear TV viewing will
decline to 342 billion viewing annual viewing hours, while online video
will expand to 14 billion.”
”He described this new
genre of online video programming as “part of another digital
storytelling process” and suggested that it is part of a bigger trend
in non-linear programming that has begun to evolve.
“This is the first time since Guttenberg that we’ve created a new
storytelling device,” Kramer declared, referring to the invention of
the moveable-type printing press.”
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