The label to watch We might be able to be very bold, after a mere two days, to call Arielle Mermin the break-out, one-to-watch label at New Zealand Fashion Week. She’s totally on-trend. Photograph from her autumn–winter 2013 collection by Matthew Beveridge; article by Sopheak Seng from day two’s festivities here.
Arielle Mermin You know when some designers have “it”? Arielle Mermin has it in spades. This is one of the best Kiwi collections I’ve seen. More at Lucire today, in Sopheak Seng’s comprehensive review of day two at New Zealand Fashion Week.
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TV networks’ dominance of the delivery of TV content is rapidly collapsing, as alternatives expand and people build up their libraries:
Primetime Mystery: Where Did All the TV Viewers Go? - Derek Thompson via The Atlantic
The networks’ share of primetime TV audience (dark blue in the graph below [above in this post]) has declined from 45% in 1985 to 25% in 2009. Basic cable ate the networks’ lunch post-dinner audience, and now it’s technology’s turn gobble up what’s left.
Even with this long trend line (and despite the fact that viewers often unplug in the spring), there is a sense that we’ve reached a tipping point thanks to what Gaspin calls “built-up libraries.” There is more good stuff to watch not-on-live-TV than on live-TV, and even the head of entertainment at NBC knows it. Television technologies are dragging us away from live television, to a world of smaller screens, shifting “windows,” and no more ads. In 2000, a company called Netflix was experimenting with movie rentals. Now they have more than 20 million streaming customers. In 2005, about 1% of households owned DVRs. Today, it’s more than 40%. In 2006, Hulu didn’t exist. Today it has just under 30 million monthly uniques, with more than 1 million paying subscribers. In 2009, there were no iPads. Today, there are 60 million, and most of them are in the United States. That’s a Cambrian explosion of options for “watching TV” without literally watching an actual TV.
So people are ‘watching TV’ but not watching network programming in real time: they have defected from the ‘appointment TV’ model, or defected from broadcast and networks as the delivery mechanism for TV media.
PS DVR is a strange intermediary technology, one that foreshadowed keeping your TV shows in the cloud. (Apple’s iTunes in the cloud is poised to destroy the market for DVR devices.)
(h/t emergent futures)
The end of network TV This hardly surprises me, especially as someone who listens to more radio per week than watches television. I wonder if New Zealand has a similar trend—since I cannot see the point of pay TV, or forking out money for a medium I use less and less of. But, all the times I have stayed at hotels, I have found precious little on pay TV that I want to see.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3509nPzOP1qcz5rmo1_500.gif)
TV networks’ dominance of the delivery of TV content is rapidly collapsing, as alternatives expand and people build up their libraries:
Primetime Mystery: Where Did All the TV Viewers Go? - Derek Thompson via The Atlantic
The networks’ share of primetime TV audience (dark blue in the graph below [above in this post]) has declined from 45% in 1985 to 25% in 2009. Basic cable ate the networks’
lunchpost-dinner audience, and now it’s technology’s turn gobble up what’s left.Even with this long trend line (and despite the fact that viewers often unplug in the spring), there is a sense that we’ve reached a tipping point thanks to what Gaspin calls “built-up libraries.” There is more good stuff to watch not-on-live-TV than on live-TV, and even the head of entertainment at NBC knows it. Television technologies are dragging us away from live television, to a world of smaller screens, shifting “windows,” and no more ads. In 2000, a company called Netflix was experimenting with movie rentals. Now they have more than 20 million streaming customers. In 2005, about 1% of households owned DVRs. Today, it’s more than 40%. In 2006, Hulu didn’t exist. Today it has just under 30 million monthly uniques, with more than 1 million paying subscribers. In 2009, there were no iPads. Today, there are 60 million, and most of them are in the United States. That’s a Cambrian explosion of options for “watching TV” without literally watching an actual TV.
So people are ‘watching TV’ but not watching network programming in real time: they have defected from the ‘appointment TV’ model, or defected from broadcast and networks as the delivery mechanism for TV media.
PS DVR is a strange intermediary technology, one that foreshadowed keeping your TV shows in the cloud. (Apple’s iTunes in the cloud is poised to destroy the market for DVR devices.)
(h/t emergent futures)
The end of network TV This hardly surprises me, especially as someone who listens to more radio per week than watches television. I wonder if New Zealand has a similar trend—since I cannot see the point of pay TV, or forking out money for a medium I use less and less of. But, all the times I have stayed at hotels, I have found precious little on pay TV that I want to see.
Web 3.0 : les nouvelles tendances 2010 via www.lefigaro.fr
Web 3·0: mobile and real-time Some interesting incremental trends emerge for 2010.
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, It loses all of its meaning.
The ’70s are back There’s something wrong with me. ITC Serif Gothic actually looks good to me tonight.
Source: weheartit.com
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