Monday, January 26, 2009

How much dose it cost to deliver video over the net?



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With over 3.8 million simultaneous streams of the inauguration (just on Akamai) with very little paying advertising how much is streamlining video costing the broadcasters and will they last out the recession with much reduced ad spend.

NewTeeVee suggests that Web video viewing figures were in the order of 70 million views. This compares to traditional television viewing figures in the U.S. of around the 40 million mark.

Digital information just wonts to be free, and the is still a lot that dosent add up in the dot-com world.