[lit-ideas] Hollywood vs. MySpace
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:43:35 -0800
Interesting essay in the LA Times about Hollywood vs. the web and computer
games.
"Already, video games generate more income than movies by centralizing the user and turning
him into the protagonist. Popular websites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, in which
the user is effectively made into a star and in which content is democratized, get far more
hits than movies get audiences. MySpace has more than 100 million users worldwide, and
Fortune magazine reported that 54 million of them spend, on average, 124 minutes on the site
for each visit, while 11.6 million users spend 72 minutes a visit on Facebook. YouTube's
most popular videos attract more than 40 million hits, which is substantially larger than
the audience for all but a very, very few movies."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-gabler25feb25,0,4482096.story
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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