ITV to launch female-focused channel

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/12/itv-new-channel-itvbe-the-only-way-is-essex

ITV have introduced a new show, a show which is female focused, free to air channel, which is called ITVBE, which will become the home of shows including The Only Way is Essex. The New channel, which has focus on the lifestyle and the reality TV programming, will launch towards the end of the year and will be available on Freeview, Sky and Virgin. The show will be targeted at a younger, female audience and will feature acquired programming such as the US Real Housewives. ITV 2 is to tighten it focus onto entertainment programming aimed at aimed 16 -34 years olds including comedy and drama series, panels shows and formats.

"We identified an opportunity to develop what is currently part of the ITV2 schedule – reality and non-scripted shows, which are very popular with young women and housewives with kids - into a distinct channel proposition, aimed more squarely at that audience’’

"ITV2 will continue to be the youngest channel in our portfolio, outside of CITV, and the strategy of bringing more scripted series, both acquired and commissioned, will continue apace, alongside panel shows, formats and other young-skewing commissions."

"ITVBe reinforces our plan to maximise audiences and revenues from our broadcasting business," said Adam Crozier, chief executive of ITV. "Alongside our recently announced new pay channel ITV Encore, this is another important step forward in our strategy to become the most watched, most loved and most talked about family of free and pay channels for every household and every advertiser in the UK."

I think that these shows we be very effective and good for the female group, as they’ll have a show discussing and talking about these well-known and popular shows which are important in our society nowadays, as these girls are basic like role models and leaders on these shows, as they want to live this life style and scenes. 

Netflix to spend $3bn on TV and film content in 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/05/netflix-spend-3-billion-tv-film-content-2014

Netflix is committed to spending $3 billion on TV and film content in 2014 and more than $6 billion pound s over the next three year, for the cost of the securing international rights and commissioning news shows. The US Company has announced this week that it is to raise $400 million to help fund this investment in original programming. The company said it has to pay $2.97 billion of that by the end of 2014, with a total of $6.2 billion due within three years. Netflix made $4.3 billion in total revenues last year, a healthy 19% year on year. Netflix has grown over the last year, in term of their shares, with its share price surging from $92 to $367 across 2013. The license cost are the major factor, also rose 17% from $2.6 billion to $3.1 billion The company's international subscriber base grew by 1.7 million to 10.93 million in the final quarter last year. Across 2013, Netflix put on 4.8 million new international subscribers in total, an 80% year-on-year increase.

• Its annual report, published this week, shows that at the end of 2013, Netflix had run up $7.3 illiobn in "streaming content obligations", which are incurred when the company signs a licence agreement for programming, up 30% from the $5.6 billion owed at the end of 2012.

• The US movie and TV streaming giant, which is expected to expand into Germany and France later this year, said that it expects to "substantially increase" investment in shows that it makes itself, such as House Of Cards and Orange is the New Black.

• With another $500m ploughed into marketing, $378m into technology development and $180m in "general and administrative expenses", the US Company ended the year with net profits of $112 million.

• "We expect to significantly increase our investments in international expansion, including substantial expansion in Europe in 2014, and in original content," the company said in a Securities & Exchange Commission filing. "As a result, and to take advantage of the current favourable interest rate environment, we plan to obtain approximately $400m in long-term debt in the first quarter.

• Netflix launched its first streaming operation outside the US in 2010, when it expanded to Canada.

• Latin America followed in 2011, the UK and Ireland in early 2012, and Scandinavia later the same year. 

• The Netherlands is Netflix's latest market, launched in September last year.

I think that Netflix is a popular and huge business due to the movies they put up and television programmes they air on their website, which is getting more people involved and interested in these shows, which is targeting more people to watch these shows. Netflix are planing to expanding and improve the business, make it ten times better, adding more shows and television programmes to their website, which means they are target many more people to the business. 

The Development of the new/digital media the audience is more powerfulin term of consumption and production. Discuss the argument for andagainst this views

The Development of the new/digital media the audience is more powerful in term of consumption and production. Discuss the argument for and against this views   

• WWW.Good Group of the main argument and some details included 
• EBI. Needs to have more information- About the case study (News)
• Write an extra paragraph on this, linked to the question

A pluralist theorist, will believe that everyone has the rights and opinion of writing and saying what they like and want on social networking site and video sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter YouTube. They feel that it's apart of everyone human right to have a voice via through the internet. they'll feel that they should have the control and belief of writing and saying whatever things through the media and the internet. In some case, when people writing important issues through the internet, it informs and educate the audience of all the different types of things which are happening in a city or a country. i.e. The Arab Spring. The Arab Spring allowed thousands of people to have a voice and have opinion about the leader of the country and the government as well, as it first gave people the confident and belief of having a voice and freedom to speak for the first time in over 30 years in the country. As people were scared and terrified of the government and the leader of the country, However, things got very different, as people found social networking sites and video sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and YouTube, to write and show the horrible scenes happening in the country, as this information and horrible scenes were shared with millions of people around the world, as they were spending this information with others around the world. as a result, this information reached the news around many different country like Sky News in the United Kingdom and Fox news in American, showing their views the scenes happening in these Arab countries. Showing these scenes, through social networking sites and through smart phone shows a sense of realism through the media 

Google reports 17% revenue rise for fourth quarter

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/30/google-reports-17-revenue-rise-fourth-quarter

Google’s revenues has increased and climbed up to 17% in the season of winter of 2013, however, their low cost mobile adverts has decreased and chipped away at the price of the new on-line adverts they have. This information came a day after they announced it was selling the new and popular Motorola Mobile for a fraction of its purchase price. The Advertising revenue rose 17% to $14.07 billion from the year earlier period. Most of their money they revenue came from their on-line site, the search engine and YouTube. Google generated $10.55 billion pound in the last quarter of the season and year, as it jumped to 11% in 2013 for the final quarter of the year. However, Google lost a lot of money via through the Motorola service, as the business loss $384 million pound in 2013.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected $16.75 billion. Profits rose 17% to $3.38 billion, or $9.90 a share, up from $2.89 billion , or $8.62 per share, for the same period last year.

“We ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth,” said Larry Page, chief executive of Google. “We made great progress across a wide range of product improvements and business goals. I'm also very excited about improving people's lives even more with continued hard work on our user experiences.”

Revenue from the Motorola Mobility unit declined 24% to $1.15 billion, while the operating loss for the business was $384 million, up from $248 million  in the prior period.

Sales of the new Motorola phones have not been strong and shareholders have been unhappy about the division’s losses amid intense competition in the mobile hardware market.

Google is a well-known and popular company and business, and is known and used by billions of people every day. By having their own business, where people can search for anything through, which is very popular, they also own video sharing site YouTube, which is also popular, used by billions of people every day, as both businesses are as big and huge as each other. So, of course Google are generating a lot of money every year and increase their shares, because they know that that they are most viewed site on this planet and they are increase and expanding and finding new ways to improve this, like introducing new Google phones and new Google contract lenses and many more things in the future.