I look at it being off to the side somewhat from the outside being a service provider to adult for 12 years and consultant, where I am seeing growth comes from the same primary ideas for both adult and mainstream which are:
1. Higher Quality content is being demanded by the end users and larger content is moving online, thus end users have a broadcast quality expectation and revenue dollars are aligned to their experience.
2. There is explosive growth in web enabled mobile devices and in mobile content consumption especially where land line connections are limited. Reports show more smart phones will ship worldwide in 2011 than laptops and PCs combined with that market exploding to an 80% adoption rate by 2015.
3. Gartner states most companies are leveraging about 10% of the computing resources available them via their own infrastructure (owned and managed infrastructure is not optimized). Therefore there is huge movement to ?cloud? infrastructure so you pay for what you use and nothing more. Further lowering cap X costs and costs surrounding the management of infrastructure.
In short, yes there is still money in this but think about this for a second. The business model everyone is holding on till death has not changed for 15 years.
