Executive Summary
Executive Summary
The media landscape has changed forever. For media consumers, digitalization has expanded the daily media usage options from traditional media including print, TV, and radio, to include a vast array of digital choices like Internet, podcasting, blogging, interactive TV, short messaging, instant messaging, video, digital radio, and much more.
For media companies, these seismic shifts in the media landscape have caused the definition of competition to change. No longer are local newspapers just competing against other local newspapers. They are now vying for advertising spend and subscriptions in an increasingly crowded media marketplace. In fact, they may be competing with companies that are not traditional media firms at all.
Now, local media companies are competing with international digital brands like Yahoo! and Google for local advertising. In these days of increasingly busy lifestyles, multitasking and multisensory overload, established media companies also are frequently losing the battle for mindshare, or time and attention.
In order to regain mindshare and market share, many media companies are launching new products on a variety of media channels. The research compiled for the World Digital Media Trends show clearly that each individual consumer demands these new channels in different ways and at different times. In the final analysis, it behooves media companies to take advantage of the emerging opportunities in their marketplace by investing in new methods of publishing and exploring revenue options for these new channels.
Of course, new digital trends emerge on a regular basis. Only ten years ago, the Internet and mobile phones carried text and voice data, respectively. Thanks to digitalization and technology advancements, each media has morphed into a multimedia channel. Media content has become interchangeable among digital media. New technologies allow for the rapid deployment of multimedia content across channels. For example, the same video used on television can be converted for publishing on smaller screens like computers, video iPods and mobile phones. Depending on the viewer, user, reader or listener’s preferences, video, graphics, text and sound can be accessed on almost any digital medium.
Digital media trends are not created equally, country by country. In order to make sense of the countrybycountry and regional trends in digital consumption and revenuemaking, the World Association of Newspapers has created the WDMT Index, which allows us to show digital “hotspots” around the world.
Some markets are more engaged than others when it comes to digital channel usage, broadband penetration and mobile telephony consumption. The WDMT Index ranks countries based on an equal weighting of mobile penetration and Internet penetration in each country.
WAN employs a methodology based on wellestablished, credible data provided by the CIA WorldFactbook 2007 and OECD statistics about broadband, mobile and Internet penetration. In all, 35 countries are profiled, encompassing every major region in the world.
By indexing the key digital media categories, WDMT has found that the Scandinavian countries, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, Korea and Japan, all rate as the World’s Hot Spots, with more than 60 percent Internet penetration and 70 percent mobile penetration.
In addition to the WDMT Index, this WDMT yearbook is filled with trends from a variety of reputable and established sources. Not only do the data showcase a variety of mobile consumption patterns, but also show the individual trend patterns for individual media elements, like blogging, video and visiting specific types of content, by country. In the U.S., for example, BIG Research shows the usage patterns of three age groups for all types of media, during the course of a week.
The research shows, for example, that more than 80 percent of the respondents accessed the Internet in a given week, and the percentage was higher as the age groups become younger. However, those using email during the space of a week were more likely to be in the older age categories.
Every year, segments of the digital channels emerge and quickly grow in popularity. Consider:
• In 2004,weblogs became a mainstream online media form, and as of mid2006, an estimated 50 million blogs existed. About 175,000 new blogs are created each day, with about 1.6 million postings per day, according to Technorati, a blog aggregation Web site. Blogs drive a tremendous amount of traffic to news Web sites. Items from blogs outside of news Web sites frequently reference and link to news blogs, thereby driving traffic to them. Among the most linkedto news Web sites with blogs are among the biggest names in newspapers online, including the New York Times, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Times of London, and Guardian Unlimited.
. • More than 1 trillion SMS messages were sent worldwide 2006. The mobile SMS market has become a multibillion dollar industry More than 90 percent of the nonvoice revenue from mobile industry come from SMS. More than 80 percent of all mobile phone usage worldwide is from voice transmissions.
. • In 2005,podcasting emerged on the media scene, and since, has become a popular medium for news reports and infotainment. Podcasting is emerging as a revenue channel for some of the world’s media through advertising and subscriptions such as iTunes.
. • In 2006 and 2007,video advertising emerged as the hot new channel for advertising online. Around the world, video advertising is growing at doubledigit rates, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Borrell Associates, in separate reports. Online advertising also is led by search advertising, classifieds and banner ads, according to these research houses.
. • The onceburgeoning Web population is starting to slow down in terms of new users. While Internet advertising continues to grow at
a quick clip, there are signs of a slowdown, especially in the West. Meanwhile, the outlook for mobile phone advertising sales, subscriptions and handset sales are robust, but new subscribers are projected to slow down significantly in 2011, according to Informa.
These are just some of the overarching themes that the World Digital Media Trends data show us. Around the world, the consumption of online video and audio is growing. From 2005 to 2006, upwards of half of the Internet populations in Spain, the UK, Australia, Brazil, France and Germany have accessed audio and video online. For example, news is a popular destination for Internet and mobile phone users. According to Nielsen NetRatings, the majority of the Internet population has regularly accessed news and information sites in the world’s most Internet savvy countries, led by the United States, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The world’s most popular news Web sites are led by the biggest brands online, including Yahoo!, MSNBC and CNN. Among the Top 10 are several newspaper companies, including the New York Times, Gannett and USA Today.
According to Pew Research Center, significantly more time is spent on traditional media on news in terms of frequency and length of time, compared with that of the Internet in the United States. An average of 40 minutes is spent per user on news with newspapers per session, compared with 32 minutes online. Only 23 percent reported getting their news online “yesterday,” while 40 percent got news in newspapers, and 57 percent got news from television yesterday.
News also is among the three most paidfor types of information in the countries with the highest penetrations of mobile usership across Asia and Europe.
Meanwhile, new forms of revenues are emerging online. Paid search and streaming video are the fastest growing forms of local online advertising in the U.S., according to Borrell Associates. Online commerce also has taken off around the world.
According to Nielsen NetRatings, a significant increase of purchases online was reported in the UK, Germany, Australia, France, Spain and Brazil between 2005 and 2006. Despite the new revenue channels of advertising and ecommerce, the growth of the Internet appears to have had a negative impact in some respects on traditional media.
According to Arbitron research, online users report spending less time with traditional media because of their time spent online. For example, 30 percent of online users report they spend less time with newspapers and magazines, while 33 percent of online users report spending less time with television because of their online usage.
Meanwhile, Internet advertising revenue continues to grow, seemingly at the expense of some established media. According to Zenith Optimedia, Internet advertising is set to grow an estimated 75 percent, from US$18.7 billion in 2005 to US$42.7 billion in 2009, while newspapers will grow 9.5 percent during the same period, from US$119.2 billion in 2005 to US$135.2 billion in 2009.
The everchanging dynamics among established and emerging media has kept media executives focused on plotting the future development of their existing media holdings, and the future investment in emerging media.
The World Association of Newspapers has created World Digital Media Trends in 2007 to provide a digital compass for the world’s media strategists, to assist them in tapping into the tremendous growth of the digital opportunity with a compilation of these important digital media studies. To see the latest releases of new research, go to www.FutureoftheNewspaper.com.
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