2018, September 13-15 #ONA18
Key findings:
- Blockchain emerged as a significant driver of change in 2019 and beyond
- Mixed Reality is entering the mainstream
- Artificial Intelligence is not a tech trend—it is the third era of computing
Alphabet (the new name for Google’s holding company) has increased its lead as the world’s largest media owner in the new ranking published today by Zenith. The company’s media revenues total US$60bn, 166% more than its nearest rival’s, Walt Disney. Alphabet has steadily pulled away from Disney over the past few years; last year it was 136% larger than Disney, up 21% on the previous year.via / more at performics.com
The Top Thirty Global Media Owners report is a unique ranking of the world’s largest media companies by media revenue, as estimated by Zenith. The report was launched in 2007 and was last published by Zenith in 2015. Zenith defines media revenue as all revenue deriving from businesses that support advertising, to determine which companies are most important for the marketing industry.*
New York, NY June 30, 2014The first half of 2014 saw nine mega deals hitting the $1 billion+ mark
The media, information, marketing and technology sectors saw 752 transactions announced in the first half of 2014, at a total value of $64.4 billion. Deal volume increased by 6% from 1H 2013, but with the help of Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging application WhatsApp in February and several other large transactions, deal value more than doubled from 1H 2013’s $27.8 billion. Twenty four large transactions with $500+ million price tags accounted for 71% of total announced deal value but only 3% of deal volume. In contrast, small deals under $50 million drove 83% of deal volume in 1H 2014...
"The four internet media owners on our list (Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!) generated US$49.2 bn in revenue from internet advertising in 2011, out of the total US$77 bn spent on internet advertising around the world. Google alone accounted for 49% of the world’s internet ad expenditure, while Yahoo! (in 15th position) accounted for 6%, and Microsoft (26th) and Facebook (27th) accounted for 4% each." ...
"... this year consumer publishers are focused on implementing new strategies and trying to make them work (55 percent of larger consumer publishers and 40 percent of smaller consumer publishers said revenue diversification was a priority this year."Top Priorities in 2011