Article in the New Yorker 2/3/2014 on evolution of mass delivery systems for video, and present trends and visions of tomorrow. Thought provoking take on aspects of the “video production and distribution” disruption we are in the midst of.
During peak hours, Netflix accounts for more than thirty per cent of all Internet down-streaming traffic in North America, nearly twice that of YouTube, its closest competitor.
The busiest “television” platform in the world is YouTube, which is owned by Google and has a billion unique visitors watching six billion hours of video every month. Y non Kreiz, the executive chairman ofMaker Studios, the world’s largest provider of online content, noted that its series “Epic Rap Battles of History,” broadcast on YouTube, and which offers comical faceoffs benveen, say, a faux Miley Cyrus and Joan of Arc, attracts on average forty million viewers– almost four times the viewership of the finale of AMC’s “Breaking Bad.”
YouTube claims that forty per cent of its views are on mobile devices, a leap from just six per cent in 2011.