StrategyEye: VC and M&A Investment Down Across Whole Digital Media Sector

Oct 03, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- DADVF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- New quarterly reports about the Digital Media sector, launched this week by industry analysts at StrategyEye, show that Venture Capital and Mergers and Acquisitions investment is down over the past three months across the whole sector. Digital Advertising, Mobile Content, Gaming, Social Media, Search and Online Media are all affected.

StrategyEye has tracked 121 M&A, 161 Venture Capital and 253 Partnership deals across the sector in Q3 2008, at a total value of USD45bn.

"We are delighted to launch our new series of quarterly reports about the Digital Media sector. There is now so much complexity and daily change that our clients want to take stock at regular intervals to see if new trends are emerging," says Nick Gregg, StrategyEye CEO. "Given the pace of innovation, the industry landscape can change dramatically even over the period of a single quarter."

The sector reports include charts tracking the value and volume of transactions in the sector, deal trends analysis for the quarter, a hot company feature, key sector deals, deal league tables and an appendix with all StrategyEye articles and analysis for the quarter in full.

"We take a broad view of the sector and highlight quarterly trends at a more detailed level, category by category," says Nick Gregg.

A trend emerging in the video content market for instance is that although online video is taking off and attracting more and more viewers, most content providers see home TV sets as the best platform to attract a truly mainstream audience in the future. As a result, the report shows, this quarter witnessed the emergence of a wave of online video content partnerships.

Other key trends in each of the Quarterly Reports for Q3 2008 include:

- Digital Advertising: large ad players moving into in-game advertising and social media advertising.

- Search: Yahoo! prospects, semantic search technologies and the maturing of the Russian search market.

- Social Media: funnelling video content via social networks, the new wave of social news sites and consolidation in the social application space.

- Gaming: new strategies in console gaming, iPhone creating new mobile gaming opportunities and the acceleration in social gaming.

- Video: new monetising avenues for online video, video delivery platform players and how Netflix and CinemaNow are initiating online video migration to TV sets.

Companies profiled in detail include Hulu, Blinkx, True Knowledge, Double Fusion, Bandstocks and Sellaband.

"This new quarterly report service will help clients assess their strategy in light of industry movements over a meaningful period of time," says Isabella Thomas.

The Quarterly Reports can be bought from StrategyEye or added to a current subscription package. Please contact: Lizzie Lawrenson on 020 7244 2200 or 07932 784 892 if you would like to access this quarter's reports.

We have not attached the full report as it is 80 pages long, but we will happily let you have a complimentary copy. Please request one from Isabella Thomas on 07959 668 138.

CONTACT: Lizzie Lawrenson, Office Manager, StrategyEye Tel: +44 (0)207 244 2200 Fax: +44 (0)207 900 6095 e-mail: lizzie.lawrenson@strategyeye.com WWW: http://www.strategyeye.com

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