Friday, March 8, 2013

Invest And Digital Media Companies

The Internet global growing trend is continuing to expand exponentially and at an alert pace with no signs of  slowing down for the next few years. The trends noticed on the online content market are showing a strong global growth in the number of the Internet and digital media users, a growing number of the mobile (smart phones) Internet users, a strong growth in using broadband, a fast worldwide implementation of the desktop and mobile Web 2.0 standard and a strong growth in using  social networking. This strong global growth of the Internet creates great opportunities for companies active in fields such as technology and media.

 Directly connected with the digital material growth are the gains in the online advertising industry. If only considering the US online advertising numbers, we notice a continuing growing trend, from 4% in 2002, to 10% in 2007 and 17% in 2012. Digital media companies and online news companies are catching the opportunity and they are developing fast. For example, an online news company such as such as Business Insider generated $4.8 million in revenue in 2010, mostly from advertising. Also, according to Google Analytics, Business Insider has gained an impressive rise in traffic, generating around 8 million visitors in February 2011.
The e-commerce sector is another field showing strong grow trends. This includes all the online stores in general, but among them the fast growth is seen for the providers of digital products, such music or e-books. These digital items can be easily downloaded online and they don't involve managing an inventory or shipping costs.

Known also under the name of digital media, the digital content may take many forms, such as text, audio files, video files, animations, graphics (i.e. Coral Draw) and images. Usually the term digital content includes any information available for downloading or distribution on electronic media such as e-books, videos and movies, iTunes songs. Many professionals in the industry are considering that in general terms, digital content is anything that can be published.

The future of the digital content market seems bright. The era of the stand alone desktop PC is history already. The next generation applications are focusing more and more on the mobile Internet segment of the market. The rising in popularity of Smart phones, Tablet PCs and e-Readers screens makes that the consumer of media products is having now a wide choice of selection to look for digital content, beside the classical computer. To reach success in this field, the content creators have to design better ways to present content to the consumers, based on the audience target.

In this context, according to the investment strategists and the financial advisers, for people with capital to put in the financial markets investing in digital content is a smart choice at the moment. The most important investment opportunities in the digital content market are those connected with social networks' infrastructures, the special interest and ethnically oriented digital content, the interactive digital content and the digital content specialized on entertainment and socialization for the mobile Internet. New entry of 3G Communication and advance relation and connected people business and get to gather.

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