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14 Million Videos Uploaded to Facebook Each Month; up 40 percent from 10 million in July. (Inside Facebook) Microsoft and Intel Partner for Mobile Silverlight; Atom-based devices running Windows 7 or Moblin will support the video technology, and Silverlight will be part of Intel’s Atom Developer […] Read more »

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Multi-service operators may be charging head first into their TV Everywhere initiatives, but Nielsen is taking a — pardon the pun — more measured approach. In an open letter posted to its corporate blog today, Sara Erichson, Nielsen President, Media Client Services North America wrote explained […] Read more »

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Not only are Americans consuming more media, according to Nielsen’s latest Three Screen Report, but we are media multitasking as well, watching TV and going online at the same time. Americans spent 141 hours per month watching TV during the second quarter, up 1.5 percent over […] Read more »

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Though Twitter is used by celebrities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher, a recent analysis by Nielsen concluded it hasn’t yet caught on with the under-25 set, which it found accounts for just 16 percent of Twitter users. But not everyone agrees with the way the findings, […] Read more »

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Some big names in the media world — including networks owned by NBC, Time Warner, News Corp., Viacom, CBS and Disney — have joined forces with a group of marketers to form a TV audience measurement consortium and take on Nielsen, reports the Financial Times. The […] Read more »

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July was a big month for online video, according to new numbers from Nielsen. Stats were up across the board, with more than 11 billion total streams served to nearly 136 million unique viewers. The total streams for July were up more than 30 percent year […] Read more »

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CBS Streaming Cronkite funeral; CBSNews.com has exclusive right to record the memorial service of its esteemed former anchor at 2 p.m. ET today. (stream here) Arqiva to Acquire Project Kangaroo Assets; infrastructure company intends to launch a new video-on-demand service in the UK using platform from […] Read more »

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Twitterers Have Longer Video Attention Spans; Twitter-referred videos are watched on average for one minute, 58 seconds, compared to 1:14 for Facebookers, and :58 for Digg users, according to TubeMogul. (MediaPost) Crowd-sourced Animated Short Getting Theatrical Release; Live Music was created by animators around the world […] Read more »

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Is Bing helping Microsoft move the needle on online video? That appears to be the case, according to new monthly stats from Nielsen. Microsoft’s combined MSN, Windows Live and Bing entrant brought it into fourth place in the U.S. in June, behind YouTube, Yahoo and Hulu. […] Read more »

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iPod Lineup to Get Video? Whispers of a video camera and pictures of a new case with a camera-friendly hole have blogs buzzing. (TechCrunch) Speaking of i-video, check out this Guide to Video on the iPhone 3GS; exposure, focus, and the “jelly” effect are some of […] Read more »

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Nielsen put out its How Teens Use Media report today, which, the research firm says, dispels some myths about the ways teenagers are using media. Bottom line: The kids still love their oldteevee. Contrary to conventional wisdom, teens are not abandoning TV — in fact, they […] Read more »

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Sometimes, irregularity in video stats is just confounding. For April, Nielsen said unique U.S. video viewers were down 2.5 percent in the last year. For May, Nielsen said viewers were up 13 percent year-over-year, to 133.8 million. Today, Nielsen led a press bulletin with the impressive […] Read more »

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Two research reports have just been released that aim to dispel two commonly held media consumption assumptions: one, that online video usage is pervasive, and two, that P2P users steal all the content they consume. First up, a $3.5 million study (we had previously reported on […] Read more »

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[qi:083] Devices like Amazon’s Kindle e-reader are pioneering a business model that will help carriers grow their subscriptions at the expense of annual average revenue per user, according to a report out today from Nielsen. The audience tracking company also follows wireless subscriptions and, in its […] Read more »

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Maybe Steve Jobs was right when he dismissed Amazon’s Kindle by stating bluntly that “people don’t read.” When would they find the time? According to Nielsen’s latest Three Screen Report, the average American watched 153 hours of television a month in the first quarter of 2009, […] Read more »

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Hulu is none too happy with Nielsen after the online ratings company found Hulu’s unique visitor count dropped for the third straight month in April, reports Brian Stelter at The New York Times. According to Nielsen, while the number of streams Hulu served grew 7.1 percent […] Read more »

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A Comparison of Legal Terms from Different Hosting Services; what rights do you give up when posting to services like blip, Flickr or Dailymotion? (Advancing Usability) Report: Adobe’s DVRCast Launching Within a Week; product makes live video events instantly available on-demand, so you don’t have to […] Read more »

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If Hulu is making thank-you cards to send out to the people who have helped make it a hit, the company needs to make sure to write one up for folks over the age of 35. According to new stats from Nielsen, people between the ages […] Read more »

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When you think of famous music supergroups, names like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, or Emerson, Lake & Palmer come to mind. Now research firms have their own supergroup and it counts Nielsen, comScore, Rentrak, TiVo, and TNS Media Research among its members, reports MediaPost. Thankfully […] Read more »

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Man Delivers Baby with Help from YouTube; after watching some instructional videos he was able to handle the birthing while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. (BBC) Ask a Ninja Gets an iPhone Game; game is from Axo Studios and 10 percent of the proceeds will […] Read more »

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How to Recognize Swine Flu Symptoms; new video from CDC is among the many posted in response to the outbreak. (YouTube Blog) Sezmi Aims for a Fall 2009 Commercial Roll Out; launch pushed back six months as the set-top box company optimizes the user experience and […] Read more »

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It’s hard to get a read on how the economy is affecting online video. Experimental ad budgets are being slashed. Viewers are flocking to free in a downturn. Advertisers want more accountability. Everybody still watches TV. All these things are true. So we give props to […] Read more »

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Our inboxes were bombarded this morning with press releases from CBS touting the growth of its premium content portal TV.com, with uniques up 27 percent in March. While we’re hopeful that TV.com can mix it up with the heavyweights on Nielsen’s monthly video rankings — we […] Read more »

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Monthly viewer stats used to be pretty boring to write. To paraphrase Jan Brady, it was always “YouTube, YouTube, YouTube!” Then along came Hulu and things got more interesting as the premium content site started to take off. According to Nielsen, March was a mixed bag […] Read more »

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StreetFire and Car Domain Merge; top two car social networks combine, Streetfire CEO Glenn Rogers to run the new entity. Both companies recently went through layoffs. (TechCrunch, our profile of StreetFire from 2007) Justin.tv Adds Facebook, Twitter and MySpace Functionality; now users can comment with friends […] Read more »

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In what is being billed as “the largest and most extensive observational study of media usage ever conducted,” TV was still (by a long shot) found to be the dominant technology for video consumption, according to a Video Consumer Mapping study from the Nielsen-funded Council for […] Read more »

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Nielsen’s rankings of online streaming of network shows in February had ABC.com on top, with Lost taking first place at 2.5 million uniques and 48 million total streams. That’s up from 1.4 million viewers in December, when Lost also won when it wasn’t even airing fresh […] Read more »

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The latest Nielsen U.S. video streaming numbers for February have 1-year-old Hulu at No. 2. Over the course of the month, the upstart site beat out Yahoo, in January after finishing higher than Fox Interactive Media (MySpace). Previously, those two massive portals had long rounded out […] Read more »

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Social TV is a growing trend we’re excited about here at NewTeeVee. Watching events like President Obama’s inauguration unfold while interacting with friends in real time adds new depth to our video experience. But cracking wise with compatriots online could also be a boon for the […] Read more »

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Nielsen released its January VideoCensus data today, reporting that total video streams over the course of the month crossed the 10 billion mark, and the overall number of unique viewers surpassed 135 million. Thank you, President Obama, for live-streaming your inauguration. As a point of comparison, […] Read more »

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Television is still king, despite gains being made online. That’s according to two separate research reports released today. Taken together, the studies from Nielsen and Leichtman Research Group (LRG) also help illustrate how newteeve is impacting oldteevee (hint: it isn’t). In its A2/M2 Three Screen Report […] Read more »

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For the first time, Nielsen has released public rankings of individual TV shows watched on network web sites. Lost was the big winner in December, pulling in more than 1.4 million viewers on ABC.com, followed by Saturday Night Live with 1.1 million viewers on NBC.com, and […] Read more »

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Doritos Contest-Winners’ Ad a Favorite; amateur Super Bowl commercial wins USA Today’s focus group, after Anheuser-Busch had won ten years in a row. (USA Today, ad video) TVtrip Raises $9 Million; Paris-based startup produces hotel video tours, now has total funding of $13.8 million from Balderton […] Read more »

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Members of the House this afternoon failed to pass a bill that would delay the transition from analog to digital television signals by four months. Without House approval, the deadline for the switch stands at Feb. 17. Qualcomm is undoubtedly rejoicing, as it stands to lose […] Read more »

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Nielsen reported today that more than 6.5 million U.S. households (5.7 percent) are not ready for the national switch to digital TV that is less than one month away. These latest numbers mark an improvement of 1.3 million homes from Nielsen’s December report on DTV readiness. […] Read more »

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Nielsen today sent us its streaming video stats for December. There was nothing that immediately jumped out from the data, but if you dig a little, there’s a month-to-month increase in the number of streams being delivered while the number of unique viewers fell. Nielsen didn’t […] Read more »

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After a dip in October, the number of overall unique online video viewers rose again in November, according to Nielsen’s VideoCensus. The number of unique viewers during the month grew to 124 million from 120 million in October, putting November back on par with September. The […] Read more »

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Hard to believe, but the big national switch to digital TV is less than two months away. Nielsen released its December update on the national readiness status and found that the number of U.S. households completely unprepared for the DTV switch dropped to 6.8 percent from […] Read more »

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Nielsen released new online video facts and figures today, among them the top video sites for October, corrected figures from September, and data that shows more people watch online video during the week than on the weekends. The number of unique online video viewers fell 3 […] Read more »

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Viacom/Paramount/Lionsgate/MGM Venture Has a Name; the new premium content channel launching next year will be called epix. (MediaDailyNews) Survey: 90 Percent of DVR Users Skip Ads; TiVo-based Starcom study finds higher percentage of ad zappers than others, which put the number closer to 60-70 percent. (MediaPost) […] Read more »

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