Whether it's the latest album reviews or news about the big budget films that are about to hit the cinemas, the landscape of entertainment news through the industry changed irrevocably in the creation of the 21st century. Even though the initial foundations for the massive shift were originally put in place from the mid to latter 1990s, the full effects of the shift have only started to hit fully throughout the 2000s. Fundamentally, in the teens of a whole new millennium the move is nearly complete, bringing news and reviews on demand and online.

Throughout the 1900s, entertainment news was largely the domain of print publications. Magazines and newspapers are already featuring the latest and greatest from the industry since before the First World War. However, it was the 50s and 60s that saw them come into their very own, probably spurred on by the materialisation of in-home entertainment with the expansion of television availability and also the rock and roll explosion.

Magazines like NME and Melody Maker had phenomenal readership figures in their early years and newspapers like the Sun within the United Kingdom achieved much of their success from covering the more glamorous side of life. In contrast, as the home computer took hold in the latter stages of the 19th century, a whole new form of entertainment news provider started to materialise. The web became a phenomenon overnight within the mid to late 90s and as a growing number of people logged on, a growing number of people found their news from online sources.

Throughout the course of the dot.com boom and bust, web pages sprang up at a ferocious pace to deliver the latest entertainment news to the masses. Quickly following these early innovators after the online phenomenon gained just a little more stability, the original providers also setup sites to deliver their news as well as to promote their "for sale" offline productions. In contrast, it did not take long for the masses themselves to realise that they could effortlessly become the bastions of everything entertainment. Through the 2000s they simply set up their very own blog or e-zine and started to log the news, web style. With millions live, everyone is discussing their favourite movies, albums and computer games from their very own site, interlinking to the more influential, bigger news sites, and also the internet, user generated encyclopaedic catacombs of Wikipedia.

The area of biggest growth within the online entertainment news world is the expansion of video content. People no longer have to go to the cinema to see the-latest film trailer or wait for radio shows to listen to the-latest album reviews, they may watch them whenever they want, months and even years in advance of a release thanks to the might of the likes of You Tube. With more video content than Saddam Hussein's eldest son, You Tube will be the internet's largest video content distributor. Entertainment news, reviews and info happens to be a big part of online video content, on the contrary, the likelihood is the fact that it's going to grow into something even more significant over the course of the 21st century.

The most recent addition to entertainment news delivery will be the massive impact of social-media. Together, people connected online can change the world, so something as simple as entertainment news websites was an early win for the social socialites. Whether it's used to promote other online content like trailers, music releases or celebrity gossip, or literally just kids in their room tweeting about their latest favourite album, social media is just one of the first places to hear the most up to date entertainment news.