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  • CNN.com announces broadband service

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN has announced that its website cnn.com has made a significant investment in broadband. This includes free video and a premium product that places the site at the control of the online user     
    CNN.com will make the free video available from 20 June. It will unveil its complete premium product later this year with more options and features than any other online news and information site. As part of the June launch of free video, the CNN.com home page will prominently feature video as part of a restyling of the site. In addition, ad-supported video packaged specifically for CNN.com will be woven throughout the site on section fronts, story pages and special reports complementary to the content.

    CNN News Services executive VP Susan Grant says, “Online users have begun to expect high-quality, up-to-the-minute news video as part of their news-browsing experience. With free video drawing from the extensive resources of CNN, our users get quick, reliable and accurate multimedia information, thus connecting them with CNN in a deeper, richer and more satisfying way.”

    With the free video, online users each day can view various distinct on-demand videos across several topic areas, including politics, world news, business, sports, entertainment, science and technology and more. A specially designed video player enables users to search and organise videos so they can quickly focus on the content they wish to see. As part of the free offering, CNN.com staff will also produce two-minute newscasts every hour called Now in the News delivering the latest updates and breaking news.

    Later this year CNN.com will offer a subscription-based service delivering multiple live video streams, access to CNN’s video archives and user-customized options. This new premium product will enable CNN.com users to get the full impact of watching the news with as much choice and control as watching television or using a web site.

    CNN.com claims to be attracting an average of 23 million unique users each month. Launched in 1995, CNN.com draws from the worldwide resources of the CNN News Group to provide relevant, up-to-the minute news and information. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information.

  • Video streams up by over 100 per cent: Accustream Research

    Video streams up by over 100 per cent: Accustream Research

    MUMBAI: The constraint on broadband means that video streaming over the Internet is still limited in its scope in India. Globally however, the picture is the reverse.

    Last year, streaming media registered strong growth with total video streams up by 104 per cent to 7.8 billion and aggregate tuning hours for Internet music radio were 53 per cent higher compared to 2002.

    Around 78 per cent of video streams served were viewed at broadband rates, according to the annual market report published by AccuStream iMedia Research. The report titled Streaming Media 2003: Brand, User and Audience Share Analysis provides a detailed market analysis of the year in streaming media, with extensive data by audience type, daypart, content category, bit rate, site, network, aggregator. It also includes media consumption patterns of high-speed users, forecasts and historical comparisons.

    A company release informs that broadband streams viewed by unique user per month rose to 10.2 in 2003 compared to 6.9 in 2002. This represented a 47.8 per cent increase. The report has noted that the increase in residential broadband users, combined with an already media savvy group of high-speed users at work, plus better premium content and more sophisticated media players helped power robust growth.

    In terms of content popularity, music videos captured a 33 per cent viewing share, followed by news at 28 per cent and sports 17 per cent. The top ten streaming video sites averaged over 400 million streams per month alone last year.

    Most of the streaming growth took place on a few selected big aggregator platforms such as Real Networks, ESPN, AOL and Yahoo.