If y'all don't stop downloading funny YouTube videos and consuming bandwidth, the Internet may experience gridlock the likes of which it's never seen before.
More and more, consumers are using mobile devices for just about everything in their lives, from banking and shopping to watching videos and consuming information.
In the past few years consumers have enjoyed consuming video content on a growing number of devices including the traditional television, personal computers, mobile phone and tablets.
Although many reading this will never give a second thought to watching video on their computer, there are still people who prefer consuming video on their TV sets.
His office in central Jakarta also serves as an art space, where visitors can see video pieces like Yusuf Ismail's "Eat Like Andy," where he mimics a video of Andy Warhol consuming a hamburger, and "Ting," a whimsical video and installation piece by the artistic collective Tromarama from Bandung.
Because both creating and viewing video are time consuming, one needs to create a video carefully.
And in order to try to condition and concentrate its users' attention and eyeballs on consuming video, Facebook has been algorithmically promoting videos and demoting text-based content by doing things like preventing users from sending messages in its main app.
And in order to try to condition and concentrate its users' attention and eyeballs on consuming video, Facebook has been algorithmically promoting videos and demoting text-based content by doing things like preventing users from sending messages in its main app.
Investors and the Internet video-consuming public have been paying close attention to Netflix as a leader in the growing over-the-top video industry, a reference to the fact that Netflix piggybacks on other companies' Internet connections.
The lack of Flash support on the iThings (i.e. phone, touch) and all but one Android device has made it rather difficult for Flash-based video sites to penetrate the ever-expanding smartphone video-consuming market.
The Disney service will follow other specialized networks aimed at niche audiences, like Disney's ESPN offering for sports nuts and Amp'd, which is aimed at extreme-sport-loving, viral-video-consuming young men and owned in part by Viacom's MTV and Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group.
