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Live Radio In A Digital World.


There has been a shift in music streaming from analog to digital. It has helped operators to cut costs by replacing the traditional operational systems using stations or satellites with internet. Also, people are shifting towards streaming music services by using online subscriptions and ad-plans and free services. For instance, Beats 1 digital radio station was launched by Apple music. Spotify and Pandora are the other popular radio stations.

WEB CONTENT, SEARCH PORTALS AND SOCIAL MARKET TO GROW TO $217 BILLION BY 2020 ACCORDING TO THE BUSINESS RESEARCH COMPANY.

The Business Research Company expects the web content, search portals and social market to grow to $217 billion in 2020. The Americas was the largest region in the web content, search portals and social media market in 2016, accounting for $91 billion. The Americas is the largest market because of high internet penetration in the USA and Canada which are 84.2% and 85.8% respectively that mainly led the market

The chart below shows the year-on-year growth of the global web content, search portals and social market during 2016 - 2020.

According to The Business Research Company’s Media Consultant, Ramesh Yelugoila, mobiles, tablets and laptops sales are increasing rapidly. This leads to increasing number of people that own an internet accessible device and increasing access to digital platforms. For example, people in 16-24 age group in the UK were spending about 27 hours a week on the internet, giving companies the opportunity to generate more revenue per each user. Also, by 2017, tablets’ share of US retail m-commerce sales will rise to 71.5%, and 27% for smartphones ,thus rise in mobiles, tablets and laptops is expected to drive the web content, search portals and social media market.

Google was the largest company in the Web content, search portals and social media market with a revenue of $67.4 billion for the financial year 2015. Google’s growth strategy involves acquisition of emerging tech firms to diversify its business. It recently acquired Nest to expand itself into the Internet of Things market.

The web content, search portals and social media market comprises establishments mainly engaged in publishing and/or broadcasting content on the Internet exclusively and web search portals. This does not include non-internet versions of published or broadcasted data. The data may be in a textual, audio or video form.

Internet Publishing And Broadcasting Content

Publishing on the internet covers a broad range of content by advertisers and publishers like periodical advertising, educational content like journals and medical publishing, informative content like news, magazine, newsletter publishing and financial magazines. It also includes entertainment sites like social media, gaming, comic book, art and travel publishing exclusively on the internet. Internet publishing and broadcasting also includes broadcasting on the internet in the form of audio or video like internet radio stations.

Internet Search Portals

Internet search portals include operating web sites which provide a search engine to generate and maintain extensive databases of Internet addresses and content in an easily searchable format. It includes internet search web sites and covers other additional Internet services such as e-mail, connections to other web sites, auctions, news, other limited content and serves as a home base for Internet users.

Social Media

Social media portals enable customers to interact, create and share content and information. These portals enable users to share pictures, video and audio files.

Web Content, Search Portals And Social Media Market Briefing 2017 is a detailed report giving a unique insight into this market. The report is priced at $750 for an individual user. To use across your office the price is $1000 and $1350 if you wish to use across a multinational company.

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