Over the past year, the use of streaming media has grown in countless directions. Today, in addition to being the most cost effective form of distributing audio and video entertainment over the web, streaming media is proving invaluable for fortune 1000 companies' communications over corporate intranets. Each day, Investors depend on streaming technologies for up to the second stock quotes and breaking news. In addition, streaming has opened vast doors to Marketing professionals by offering dynamic messaging to the most targeted audience and tracking that is more in depth than any other form of marketing previously known.