![]() ![]() Further live plans and details of the ‘Tusk Vegas’ EP will be announced shortly.īoth warmly familiar and a breath of fresh air, ‘Ads’ earned South London trio MOVIE comparisons with the post-punk precision of Orange Juice, the urbane lyricism of Blur, or the glory days, noughties-Indie of Mystery Jets. Following packed-out headline shows at Club NME and the Old Blue Last, the band will support Flyte across the UK in November (with a London show at Oslo on November 4). MOVIE have premiered the title track from their forthcoming EP, ‘Tusk Vegas’, following acclaimed debut single ‘Ads’ – which picked up support across Radio 1 (Zane Lowe’s Next Hype, Huw Stephens, Phil & Alice), 6Music (Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq) and XFM. “MOVIE are packing some seriously ravenous hooks. “Short, sharp, smart…step this way for intelligent indie-funk” Guardian “MOVIE are here to save indie…perfection” Noisey “Big and bold…a sit-up-and-listen debut” NME Still, even though the firm doesn't compare Amazon's new Instant Video service directly against iTunes, Amazon still saw a small bump from 4 percent in the first half of 2010 to 4.2 percent a year later, showing that users are still sticking by Amazon's "old" service.UK tour w/ Flyte (Oslo, November 4) || ‘Tusk Vegas’ EP released early 2015 But at only 5.3 percent, it's still going to take a while to chip away at iTunes' dominance.Īnd where is Amazon in all of this? IHS notes that Amazon spent the first half of 2011 shifting its strategy over to streaming video on demand (SVOD), which it ranks in a separate space from iVOD (Amazon Video on Demand, which allows users to pay on a per-movie basis, would fall under this latter category). The firm says Vudu's success was due to the company's "shrewd device strategy," as well as a good customer experience and user interface. The only thing IHS sees as a threat to iTunes right now is Vudu, which helped Wal-Mart expand its own market share significantly year-over-year. ![]() Amel also said that an increase in the installed iPad user base has helped to boost iTunes market share. "This has expanded the reach of iTunes to new platforms, boosting sales of movies from the system."īasically, IHS believes that the ability to stream media from Macs or iOS devices to an Apple TV or third-party AirPlay receiver has prompted users to buy more movies from iTunes-presumably so they can AirPlay them to somewhere else. "Much of iTunes’ success can be traced to the rising usage of Apple’s AirPlay system, which allows wireless video streaming to consumer electronic devices including televisions," Amel said. ![]() Between 20, the service lost a whopping 11.9 percentage points in market share, which IHS credits to "intensifying competition from a slew of aggressive rivals."īecause of this, the fact that iTunes has managed to expand even a little in 2011 was "remarkable," according to IHS research director Arash Amel, who says it's Apple's latest efforts outside of iTunes that has helped boost the iTunes market share. That one-percent increase doesn't seem like much, but it's apparently the first increase that iTunes has seen since 2009. Year over year, iTunes gained almost one full percentage point in market share the Zune Video Marketplace declined by almost two percentage points and Wal-Mart VUDU increased by more than four. The Zune Video Marketplace ranks second at 16.2 percent, while Wal-Mart's Vudu offering comes in third at 5.3 percent. The data comes via the IHS Screen Digest Media Research report (hat tip to iSuppli), which puts Apple and iTunes in the number one spot-65.8 percent of the market in the first half of 2011-when it comes to movie electronic sell-through (EST) and Internet video on demand (iVOD). Market analysis firm IHS says that iTunes' share of consumer spending on online movies went up during the first half of 2011, reflecting the first increase for iTunes since 2009. The iPad and AirPlay are being credited for reversing a decline in iTunes' online movie share by getting more people experimenting with media.
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