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Sixty percent of all video views on YouTube come from people whose primary language is not English. The site addresses this global and multilingual audience with a growing number of languages and localizations as well as an increased effort to monetize video views worldwide. Read More »

Close to three percent of online video viewers watch more than 24 hours of online video per week, according to a new survey. And 62 percent of users profess that they are watching more video online than just a year ago, according to a similar study. Read More »

 
 

Chances are that one out of four of you went to YouTube or Vimeo yesterday. That’s one of the results of a new study published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which also reveals that parents like YouTube even more than people without offspring. Read More »

Couch potato, meet laptop junkie: Americans and Canadians now spend just as much time online as they spend in front of the TV screen, according to a new Forrester survey. Around a third of consumers watch video online, but mobile TV is still small. Read More »

The average U.S.-based Internet user is now watching some 30 mintes of online video every day, according to new data from comScore. The viewing time per user is up 40% since last year, thanks in part to video sites like YouTube making their offerings stickier. Read More »

Mobile users browsed the web and checked on scores with their handsets while World Cup soccer games were broadcast, and flocked to YouTube the day after important matches to find video footage of goals, fouls and penalty kicks, according to a new report from Allot Communications. Read More »

Thirty-four percent of U.S. cell phone users surveyed in May said they use their phone for recording video, up from 19 percent the year before, according to a new study from Pew. And those users are likely to share their creations, with big implications for carriers. Read More »

With the U.S. team, Mexico and many others heading home, will online traffic for World Cup streams and Twitter live updates plummet? First stats seem to signal that interest in the tournament is ebbing off, but the U.S. team’s last game still saw some significant traffic. Read More »

More Internet users are tuning in to online video regularly, with half of all viewers watching video online each week, according to a survey conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates. That’s up from 43 percent of users who watched online video weekly the previous year. Read More »

The World Cup has been a big traffic machine for ESPN3. The broadband network tracked close to 800,000 soccer fans tuning in for the match between the U.S. and Slovenia. Competitor Univisionfutbol.com on the other hand had its best day when Mexico faced off against France. Read More »

Maybe online video viewing isn’t growing as quickly as we thought. In fact, it might be declining, if you believe stats from Nielsen. In its Three Screen Report, Nielsen reports the amount of time people spent watching video online dropped from the end of last year. Read More »

Driven by ubiquitous broadband, increasingly smart devices and free, easy-to-use video chat services, the number of video calls consumers make could increase nearly ten-fold over the next five years, leading to mobile video chat revenues reaching $3.4 billion by 2015, according to research from GigaOM Pro. Read More »

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The number of people turning to web video continues to increase, with 69 percent of US Internet users watching videos online, according to Pew’s “State of Online Video” report. But much of that growth is coming from Internet users that are young, educated and well-off. Read More »

The season finale of Lost yesterday was seen by 13.5 million viewers in the U.S., plus millions more around the globe through an unprecedented simulcast aimed at preventing P2P piracy. Pundits may think that’s weak, since earlier episodes of had up … Read More »

Mark Cuban is always good for a rant, and one of his favorite pet peeves is Internet video. This week, he’s complaining that all those evangelists of over the top video are ignoring the way average Americans use their TV, which is for … Read More »

Looks like P2P piracy isn’t just for zit-faced teenagers anymore: the act of downloading videos, music, e-books and other goodies is most popular with male users between the ages of 20 and 29, according to a new survey by Germany’s GfK Panel Services … Read More »

The first online audience numbers for the 2010 Winter Olympics are coming in, and NBC is ready to celebrate: The network served 45 million video streams from the games, according to data it obtained from Omniture, and NBCOlympics.com doubled its page views compared … Read More »

The British Broadcasting Corporation’s online video iPlayer continues to set records for viewership, essentially doubling its audience over the course of the past year. The BBC reported that iPlayer viewership increased to 120.3 million requests in January 2010, from 61.5 million requests in January 2009. Read More »

Updated: Across the TV networks, President Obama’s first State of the Union address last night drew an aggregate of 48 million viewers, according to Nielsen. It also pulled in 1.3 million views viewers on to an official live-streamed feed, according to a … Read More »

In GigaOM Pro’s latest Connected Consumer quarterly wrap-up (sub required), we analyze how the world of NewTeeVee continued to shake the foundations of old media in Q4 2009. From the rapid growth of connected consumer electronics, the consumer’s ever-increasing appetites for online video, the socialization … Read More »

Gleeks, you can be proud of yourself: Glee has not only been the show that dominated Twitter week after week after week ever since the beginning of the fall season, its most recent episode before the holiday break also caused more Tweets than … Read More »

How bad are things in the U.S. TV industry? Pretty bad. 2009 revenues for local TV stations are expected to show a decrease of 22.4 percent from 2008 to $15.6 billion, according to a recent report by BIA/Kelsey. That’s even worse than the 17 … Read More »

What can we say about Glee and Twitter that we haven’t already said? Not much other than fans of the show still Tweet about it even while stuffing their face with, well, stuffing. After losing ground to Oprah, Glee took back the Twitter crown with … Read More »

Forty-six percent of U.S. households have at least one HDTV set, according to a new study from the Leichtman Research Group (LRG), roughly double the percentage of homes that had HDTVs two years ago. LRG says the adoption was spurred by … Read More »

Looks like the sleeping online video giant that is Facebook may finally have awoken. According to Nielsen’s latest VideoCensus numbers, Facebook jumped to No. 3 behind established video powerhouses YouTube and Hulu in terms of total streams. That’s up from No. 10 just last month. … Read More »

If we haven’t reached it yet, the Glee backlash is bound to happen soon. Though even as tired as I am of both reading and writing about the show, even this old grumpy gus had to admit that Glee‘s Halo/Walking on Sunshine mashup was pretty … Read More »

After a hot streak all summer long, online video stats are a bit more of a mixed bag for September, according to Nielsen. Though Nielsen’s measure of the number of unique U.S. viewers was up slightly to 139 million, the number of … Read More »

Catch the Post-Season on PostSeason.TV; MLBAM, Turner Sports and FOX Sports offer a blackout-free playoff subscription package. (paidContent) NeuLion Buys Interactive Netcasting Systems; New York based web sportscaster buys Canadian IPTV software maker for $7.1 (USD) cash and stock deal. (The Hollywood Reporter) Corey Feldman to … Read More »

David Letterman is used to creating lists, not being on them. Though we’re not sure how excited he is to be at the top of Trendrr‘s Most Twittered Television list spurred mostly by his sex-with-co-workers/extortion scandal that popped up last week. Letterman topped the chart … Read More »

Over the top and on demand are increasingly how people want to consume — and pay for — their video, if new numbers from The Diffusion Group hold true. The research firm estimates that by 2014 revenue from in North America from on-demand video … Read More »

It’s probably not too much of a surprise that HDTVs were the fastest growing technology in 2008, with roughly 10 million new households adding a high-definition set last year, according to new research from Forrester. Over the next five years, Forrester predicts that nearly 39 … Read More »

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 … Read More »

The audience for live broadcast TV is older than ever. According to new research from Magna Global, the median ages for CBS, ABC and NBC are expected to be over 50 years old this fall (via Variety). For the just-completed season, the major broadcasters … Read More »

As we expected, July was a mega-month for online video. According to comScore’s latest numbers, 158 million U.S. Internet users watched more than 21 billion videos last month, both of which were all-time highs for the online video world. Online video is prone to breaking … Read More »

Sales of video-enabled mobile phones will surge over the next four years, Infonetics projects in new research. Unfortunately, providers of mobile pay TV services won’t enjoy the forthcoming salad days. Infonetics predicts that 397 million video phones will sell worldwide in 2013, and the subsequent … Read More »

Big news helped make June a record month for video viewers, according to the latest numbers from comScore. The research firm said events like Michael Jackson’s death and the Iranian protests were big factors in drawing a record 157 million unique U.S. video … Read More »

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 »

While representing only 1.6 percent of total online and television advertising spending, and 4.3 percent of the online ad spend total, the market for video ads over the Internet is growing and is not necessarily taking money away from other media channels, according to a … Read More »

A new study from Yahoo, Interpret LLC, Havas Digital, Warner Bros. Media Research and PHD was announced this morning by way of a press release with the headline: “Bosses Beware: Employees Watching Videos Online on the Company’s Dime.” Jeez. As if going into an office … Read More »

eMarketer projects the number of online video viewers in the U.S. will grow 31 percent in the next five years, hitting 188 million in 2013, up from 144 million in 2009. In addition, online video viewers will make up 85 percent of U.S. Internet users by … Read More »

The global paid video market will reach $3.8 billion this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, outperforming the free, ad-supported video sector, which it’s forecasting will hit $3.5 billion. And this year is no fluke. Strategy Analytics predicts that paid video will … Read More »

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 … Read More »

Snapstream launched a free, online analytics tool called TV Trends yesterday, which allows users to track the number of times particular words were mentioned on television. Type in up to five words, and TV Trends will scour the major broadcast and cable news networks, … Read More »

Joost Gets 12 New Content Partners; web TV service to get content from Marvel Enterprises, Speed Racer Entertainment, and TOEI Animation, among others. (release) In other content partner news — Metacafe Adds TV Hub; section will be feature clips from television programming from CBS, TBS, … Read More »

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 … Read More »

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