LoveFilm

1. LoveFilm is currently owned by Amazon.com who bought it in 2011 for £200 million.
2. It was founded in 2002. It originally started off as a DVD rental/mail business.
3. LoveFilm is available in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
4. LoveFilm is not so much banned from other countries but it hasn't spread very wide; it is only available in some parts of Europe too.
5. Members can watch films and TV shows off many different platforms. The conventional ones such as on the TV or on your mobile phone, but also on the Xbox, iPad, Wii and PlayStation.
6. Have online DVD rental and video-on-demand
7. The service has reached 2 million subscribers

Internet Access Figures

Internet Access Figures

3 billion internet users worldwide and 48% of this is in Asia. 

UK - 2014 figures

 

 

• In 2014. 38 million adults (76%) in Great Britain accessed the internet everyday. That is 21 million more than in 2006.
• Access to the internet using a mobile phone has doubled between 2010 and 2014, from 24% to 58%. 
• In 2014, 74% of all adults bought goods or services online. This is up from 53% in 2008. 49% of the population purchased their clothing online.
• 67% of adults in Britain are aware of internet storage spaces, but only 35% of people actually use these services.
• 22 million households (84%) had access to the internet, which rose from 57% in 2006.
• Fixed broadband internet connections were used by 91% of households.
• Has a 1.95% share of the worlds internet

 

USA - 2014 figures

 

• There were 279,834,232 internet users in 2014. This has grown by 7% since 2013.

 

 

 

• The image shows that North America had the highest number of internet users with a total of 310.3 million.
• Central America had the lowest number of internet users with a sum of 72.4 million.
• Hispanics represent 47 million traditional TV viewers in the US.
• In 2013, 74.4 % of all households reported Internet use - Information provided by the United States Census

 



European Union - 2013 figures 

 

 

 

• 391,395,602 million internet users on the 31st December 2013
• The countries in the EU account for 14% of the worlds internet users.

France:

•  France has 55,429,382 million internet users  - (internet usage figures in 2014)
• It has grown by 1,521,369 since 2013
• France has 1.90% share of the worlds internet 

Switzerland:

• Has 7,180,749 thousand internet users - (internet access figures in 2014)
• This has grown by 227,983 thousand since 2013
• Switzerland accounts for 0.25% of the world internet usage 

China

 

•  China has the highest internet usage in the world, with a total of 641,601,070 million internet users - (internet usage figures in 2014)
• This has grown by 24,021,070 million since 2013
• China accounts for 21.97% of the worlds internet usage 

 

Russia 

 

• Russia has 84,437,793 million internet users. Russia falls at number 6 in the list of highest interne users
• Russia's internet usage has grown by 7,494,536 since 2013
• Accounts for 2.89% of the worlds internet users

Zimbabwe:

• Has 2,852,757 million internet users - (internet usage figures 2014)
• This has grown by 406,610 thousand since 2013
• Accounts for 0.10% of the worlds internet users

Sierra Leone:

• Has 92,232 thousand internet users - (internet usage figures 2014)
• Has grown by 12,123 since 2013
• Only 1.49% of the population of Sierra Leone has access to the internet

Liberia:

• 190,731 thousand people have access to the internet - (internet access figures 2014)
• The number of users has grown by 25,933 since 2013
• Account for 0.01% of the worlds internet usage
• 0.06% of the population of Liberia have access to the internet



 



 

YouTube Research

YouTube

1.     Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in 2006.

2.     It was founded in February 14, 2005 by three former PayPal employees. I was an independent company for a year and a bit before being bought by Google.

3.     Regulation policies include; not allowed to post copyrighted footage. Bullying is not allowed or any offensive content.

4.     Every country except those shown below.

5.     China, Turkey, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea, Entrea and parts of Germany.

6.     The default length allowed for videos is 15 minutes but it can be extended to a maximum of 11 hour.

7.     “300 hours of new videos were uploaded to the site every minute…. the site has 800 million unique user per month”

8.     29 of the 30 most viewed videos on YouTube are music videos, which are owned by record labels; the other one video is made by a normal person. This suggests that the media is still dominated by huge companies and also suggests were not actually prosumers the way we believe we are, rather were just consumers.

9.     Alternatives to YouTube are Vevo, Vimeo, Daily Motion and Vine.