Introduction
A significant amount of investment activity in digital media content over the past three months has been in companies whose business consolidates related content across delivery channels. Just under a third (9) of the 31 digital media companies involved in transactions*1 during the last three months have been in this category. The technologies for delivering content are maturing, both in terms of reliable function and in terms of how the consumer uses each delivery channel. This is causing investment/acquisition activity to shift toward content- and audience-centric models, which can leverage the same production capability across multiple delivery devices and channels. There was only one channel specific transaction (in on line video) during the same timeframe...
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