Birds-Eye.Net tracks events and predictions related to the broadband industry each year. Note that if no source is listed, the information came from multiple sources. For global broadband numbers check out our world telecom numbers spreadsheet.

Actual Events:

Advertising:

• Internet advertising revenues amounted to $9.6 billion. (Interactive Advertising Bureau)

Product or Service Milestones:

• Google site index increased to 8 billion web pages and 880 million images.
• Total internet searches for the year totaled 4.95 billion, distributed across major search engines 35.1 percent Google, 31.8 percent Yahoo!, 16 percent MSN, 9.6 percent AOL, and 5.1 percent Ask. (Media Metrix)

Buyouts or Deals of Interest

Market:

• VoD
  • The portion of US digital cable households that have used VoD grew to 40 percent. (Leichtman Research)

Product or Service Milestones:

• Comcast's 21.5 million subscribers downloaded 50 million shows up from 40 million in June (which is almost one movie a week for each customer), 15 million of the 50 million shows were programs from HBO. October 4, 2004

Population Trends:

• 65 percent of US use the Internet
• Time spent online in UK was 16 hours a week for broadband service, mobile phone calls averaged 27 minutes a week, 15 text messages per week, radio listening 43.5 hours per week, television viewing 26.1 hours per week (Ofcom)

 

Predictions:

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