Digital asset

Media content is editorial content or artistic works in intangible form, which are distributed through mass media.

Since the mid- 1990s and the anglicism content is (english, the content, the content ) is used, in particular in the context of new media in German speaking countries. This is intended, the transmitted content can be separated from the infrastructure of a medium, as well as information that is used to manage the content; but especially from the display space, through the proceeds of the medium is usually funded. In television, the content is for example not the single TV station or TV channel as a transmission schedule, but the totality of the transmitted television broadcasts.

By digitization of media content can be in many different forms, as text, image, audio or video data. The media content can be tailored under the terms of the Internet into a commodity that is produced independent of the particular medium and to different user groups out ( formatting).

The concerned with the marketing of paid content, so paid content media companies are also called content industry. Open Content refers to content on the other hand, for the creation of the author receives no compensation, and their redistribution is expressly desired. With user - generated content, content is addressed, where the contrast between producer and consumer is blurred.

In connection with the Internet, computers, software and hardware you will find the word content as an ingredient in numerous compositions. As examples may be mentioned here only the content management or the multiple use of content ( content syndication ).

Types of media content,

Differences are twofold content:

• Linear media content: Traditional media content, such as broadcast, cable or satellite television.
• Non- linear media content: Media content on the Internet, such as the movie -on-demand, which you can look at a self-determined time.