what is the current state of the digital media market?
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digital media is anything that uses digital technology to create media. whether it be photography, video, interactive (video games), etc. \n\nMajor movie companies are now slowly moving more towards digital media and moving away from FILM.  Digital media allows editing to be much easier and faster.  Video game companies only use digital media to create their products.\n\nPeople that work in digital media are film-makers, film editors, game programmers, etc.\n\nThe only challenges that exist are probably the changes in technology as over time, new technology becomes old and there is a need to either update, or learn new ways of using the programs.\n\nFuture prospects are motion pictures, video games, and so on.
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Hi there.  This link might be a bit more useful for ya since it not only covers accurate web usage details but also "Trends" and other statistics that might be useful for your report such as where people are spending their most money, who are the biggest advertisers, Active home Web Usage as of Feb 2006.  And the best part is, its not just numerical stats but full reports and opinions describing those numbers. Enjoy! =)
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Pretty much everywhere.  If there is no video content there yet, there will be within the next 5-10 years.  The newest thing I know of is using windows- anywhere and everywhere.  For example, Accenture has developed their "interactive wall" for use in marketing (as well as other application).  This is basically a projection onto frosted glass that has an ability to be interactive and even allows for multiple users to view individual content with personal sound using direction sound systems above the person.  You touch the screen and it responds immediately, even though you are only touching a window, basically.  This is going to be test marketed at a Virgin music store in either Chicago or New York.  Check out their website (below).  Their interactive network is the first thing that will pop up on their homepage.  It's so cool to play with and will be an amazing way to bring people into a store by using the windows as custom advertising, personalized to the individual viewing it.
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Is your subscription current?
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Well - look at popular culture and whats the hottest selling things on the market today\n\nIts always easier to talk on something thats selling great.\n\nFigure out all the positive points on them - all the advantages. Leave out any information that could possibly hurt it.\n\nTopics to sell? iPods is the only thing that comes to mind for me really. do research on hot stuff - they are your best bet
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Digital Goods/Info-products
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Yes there have been huge changes in marketing since the appearance of the Internet.  In the field of advertising the ads that used to be on radio, TV and the print media have migrated to Internet sites.\n\nWhole new types of marketing have developed such as affiliate marketing, email marketing and SEO or search engine optimization.\n\nI have included resources for these topics for you.
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As a Singularity enthusiast, I understand where Google is going with this, business models should be focused on 5-10 years in the future…HOWEVER,  are we a little EARLY. There is no EPaper yet. If I look at these mags, I am not going to get the the AdSense magiv ad serving technology. I am probably going to receive look at a 1and1.com advertisement. Not sure Google is owning that attention the same way they do on-line. \n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley
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After a complete polishing of the crystal ball, opening a new deck of Tarot cards, and putting a new coat of varnish on the magic wand I discovered the following:\n\nAutomobiles will continue to operate on gasoline and the Internet will continue to operate on Ethernet. The U.S. automobile manufacturer - General Motors - will continue to be the best selling vehicles in the world, and Yahoo! will continue to be the best Searchable Directory on the Internet.
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not many, there is a theory that the internet has hit full penetration at the minute\n\nthats about right below 30 ish %, but broadband is much lower - about 13% i think\n\nsome uk areas cant get internet very well either
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Digital economy = information age --> lots of technology.\n\nRule #1 for investing:  If you don't know what it is, you shouldn't be investing in it!\n\nRule #2 for investing:  If you don't know what it is, but know enough to ask what it is, you're too late to the game, and still shouldn't be investing in it.  The pros can spot trends and good stocks before normal guys like you or I even suspect a stock might be good.  Tech stocks were "in" a decade ago.  Then the internet bubble burst.
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The whole industry is going through some big changes right now so what's hot is pretty hard to pick. My list would be:\n\n1. Web programming with Python, PHP, Ruby. Java and ASP.NET are good web frameworks, but the 4GL languages are so much faster to develop in and seem to be the core of most new web 2.0 sites.\n\n2. IT infrastructure consolidation using commodity hardware, open source software, and virtualization using VMware, XEN, etc.\n\n3. Web Services-based middleware. Yahoo, Amazon, Google, etc. are exposing business services via web services that all generating all kinds of new business models. Mashups are leveraging UI and backend API interfaces to create new web applications like Zillow, etc.\n\n4. Business Process Modeling is getting a new breath of life as the Java application servers and .NET framwork mature and there's a demand for good business analysts who can document business processes using UML, BPMN, or BPEL.\n\n5. Mobile device applications is still a hot area, but very challenging due to the short lifespan of the equipement and myriad of connection protocols: EDGE, EV-DO, UMTS, etc.\n\n6. VOIP using the Asterix open source PBX. Later versions with SIP support for CTI is really going to be cool and there's a big demand for cost savings to rip out old phone systems and go to wireless.\n\n7. Jonathan Schwartz pointed out that more money will be spent on storage than on software for the next couple years. How companies deal with rapidly increasing amounts of data is going to generate demand for database and storage infrastructure skills.\n\n8. Software as a service. Even the big players are starting to realize that selling software as a right-to-use license is a dead-end and the future is in the monthly service charge model.\n\nBasically, people looking to get into the I.T. field should steer clear of commoditized areas like application programming, customer support, embedded systems, etc. \n\nHope that helps!
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VERY GOOD\n\nIn fact, advertisers in the U.S. and Canada alone spent $5.75 billion on Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in 2005, a 44 percent increase over 2004 spending, according to a report by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO).  http://www.sempo.org/news/releases/Search_Engine_Marketers \n\nThe report, “The State of Search Engine Marketing 2005,” also projects “that SEM spending in North America will reach $11 billion in 2010. The annual totals include payments to search engines and search-related media companies, search engine marketing agencies and in-house expenditures in support of such programs. The programs include paid placement, paid inclusion, organic search engine optimization and search engine marketing technology platforms.”\n\n"The survey found the bulk of the SEM spending was spent in 2005 on paid placement, accounting for 83 percent or $4.7 billion. While four out of five advertisers report they engage in organic search engine optimization (SEO), organic SEO accounted for approximately 11 percent of overall spending; paid inclusion accounted for just 4 percent of overall spending; and SEM technologies, including leasing, agency solutions and in-house development, accounted for less than 2 percent of overall spending."\n\nThe report is available for members only of the  Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) but you can read the news release for free.
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Consider graphic arts also.  There is much going on in the world of digital photog for advertising, print, brochures also.
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Well, here we are with our pervasive communication.  There's the Internet.  There's cell phones in every ear as you walk down the street or ride on the bus.  There's TV in all its forms.  There are more books, magazines, newspapers and other print materials than ever before.  Ever since we've gotten word processing and ink jet printers, and photocopiers, there have been more flyers, posters, advertising handouts and other privately printed materials than ever before.  Then there are movies, DVDs, CDs and all the more esoteric forms of communication disguised as and doing business as entertainment.\n\nWe are in an information age, which means an information overload age.  Everyone I know has at least one phone number, probably two or three (home, office and cell).  Almost everyone I know has one or more email addresses.  They have their own web pages, or at least their own blog pages, like Yahoo! 360.  There are more types of communications that go through the Internet than I've even had a chance to explore yet.\n\nYes; pervasive is definitely the word.
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Wired News Report \n2002-07-02 02:15:00.0 \n\nThe collapse of the Internet bubble claimed its latest victim when Ziff Davis Media said it was closing down Yahoo Internet Life magazine. \n\nThe magazine had a fairly large circulation of 1.1 million, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, but its advertising has plummeted. \n\n\nThe magazine's paid advertising pages, a key measure of a magazine's health, were off 52 percent in the year to date through May, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. \n\nIn a note to employees, Ziff Davis Media CEO Bob Callahan said the magazine "did not generate enough marketplace support" following the end of the Internet bubble and technology market declines.
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Now:\nBlog Standard Format (yucky)\nForums, forums, forums\nY!A answers \nThings like youtube\nWikipedia\n\nSoon:\nRIAA, MPAA and major TelCos force internet to become a 1960's style medium with a handful of content providers (a.k.a. Broadcasters in pre-2000 lingo), no more blogs or file sharing, total control and monitoring. Only mainstream content providers will be able to afford to pay Telcos downlink bandwidth charges, probably through paid subscription services. Certain aspects will be enshrined in law to make sure it works like this.\n\nNow how to make some money off this?