media winners and losers

Here is an excerpt from a post over at The Long Tail about winners and losers in media:

Flat to Down to Way Down:

• Music: sales last year were down 21% from their peak in 1999


• Television: network TV's audience share has fallen by a third since 1985


• Radio: listenership is at a 27-year low


• Newspapers: circulation peaked in 1987, and the decline is accelerating


• Magazines: total circulation peaked in 2000 and is now back to 1994 levels (but a few premier titles are bucking the trend!)


• Books: sales growth is lagging the economy as whole

Up:

• Movies: 2004 was another record year, both for theaters and DVDs


• Videogames: even in the last year of this generation of consoles, sales hit a new record


• Web: online ads will grow 30% this year, breaking $10 billion (5.4% of all advertising)
  

The Long Tail is a great blog by the way. They have all sorts of things related to "The Long Tail", a concept I've worked on a bit (especially last summer w.r.t open source). His main interest centers around the way technology is changing business so that niche markets are viable.