While companies weigh bids for Hulu and industry heavyweights complain that TV Everywhere isn't going much of anywhere, another way to watch time-shifted television is quietly gaining traction: video-on-demand, or VOD.
But it is interesting to see what platforms and videos are gaining traction in mobile video outside of the U.S.
Video hasn't gained much traction, partly because video still requires too much data for relatively tiny "pipes" of the phone system to carry, and partly because most people don't care to be caught on camera still dripping wet from the shower.
Apple "is in a little bit of a crisis now," he said, adding, "If they can't get the content soon, which may be why they're doing all sorts of attention-getting content deals now — they need to show they have some traction in the video space — they stand to lose whatever momentum they've gained".
An overwhelming 94% said they never watch TV programming on those platforms, a figure mostly reflecting the failure of wireless carriers to gain much traction with their video offerings.
The story gained traction after a video of the tearful guest went viral.
Just one part of the show achieves poetic traction: photographs and videos in the Atatürk Cultural Center, a glass-and-aluminum hulk, from 1969, in a style that might be called East German modernism, whose survival, on the city's main square, is the subject of hot local debate.
Apple, for example, gained traction by integrating first video playback and then telephony into its music storage iPod, Ms. Yin says, and thereby created an electronic Swiss Army knife.
The video gained traction on social media and then the mainstream media as it is alleged the stop was carried out by the same police officer seen in video footage that emerged over the weekend, attacking the car windscreen of a motorist.
"If the video gets traction, there is no better return on investment.
We recently wrote about the traction that how-to video site and producer Howcast is seeing online.
