[opendtv] Re: Analysis: Time to Screen Out Unloved Channels
- From: Kon Wilms <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:10 -0700
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Manfredi, Albert
E<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll bet a huge percentage of content on the web makes virtually no
> income. It just sits in a server somewhere, costs little to keep there,
> but generates hardly a drop of revenue. That is where ther niche content
> providers will end up.
You're looking at this from the wrong angle. Large content providers
go to CDNs, who bill per gigabyte delivered. Some will bill a very
nominal fee for actual storage; most will not. The money is made
delivering the content to viewers. Hence it is in the content
distributor's interests to have as much customer content online as
possible.
On the other hand, a niche provider's content gets few hits and most
times a CDN is out of reach because the setup and monthly fees are too
high for them - hence they serve from VPS, EC2 or other
single-instance zero-redundancy service (often straight HTTP). That is
where most will remain.
Cheers
Kon
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