10 trends for entertainment

Again a great list from Futureguru. Now about the main trends in the entertainment industry. Let's have a look at them.

1. New digital technologies will reshape the economics, production, distribution, and marketing of the entertainment industry. 2. Traditional media enterprises must learn to adapt new Internet and computer technologies to maintain competitiveness. 3. The convergence of the Net with TVs, telephones, kiosks, autos, and wireless devices will create many new media channels. 4. On-demand interactive entertainment content that is personalized for our preferences will be a standard feature. 5. Advanced virtual reality bundled with digital agents and holographic entertainment worlds will transform our experience of entertainment. 6. Movie theatres will receive digital broadcasts and satellite downloads of movies, video conferencing, and other interactive programming. 7. Faster, smarter, and more powerful multimedia communications devices will enhance our capacity for producing and distributing entertainment. 8. Digital TV will provide new programs where we will experience real-time participation with the media content, personalities, and shows. 9. Edutainment, the merger of entertainment and education, will offer a new genre of programming that will be greatly in demand. 10. Non-traditional entertainment producers, empowered by Power Tools, will change the industry, offering new products, channels, and innovations.

Change is a hot topic in the entertainment industry. As I say to every organisation...be aware of the changes which lie in front of us because we are in the era of great and fast changes. This warning is especially for the entertainment industry. This because we are in the shift from mass consumption of entertainment to a multimedia interactive en personalised way of entertaining the consumer. This all from innovations in technology and changing consumer behaviour.