Here’s more evidence that sports is a goldmine for machine learning
STATS buys Automated Insights
If you really like sports and you’re really skilled at data analysis or machine learning, you might want to make that your…
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Has Snapchat peaked? Comscore numbers suggest flat growth in 2014
It's not the only one
Snapchat’s user growth seems to have stalled toward the end of 2014, according to new Comscore numbers I obtained on Friday. As you…
More evidence that the big phone is the new small tablet
According to a new report, bigger phones are starting to cut into the sales of 7- and 8-inch tablets.
Most YouTube views come from non-English users
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.
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Online video consumption moves from minutes to hours
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.
Report: We are a YouTube nation
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.
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Apple Co-Creator Says iPad is a Computer for “Normal People”
Speaking at a event yesterday in Santa Clara, CA, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that the “iPad is for the normal people of the world,” not necessarily the tech savvy crowd he was addressing. Wozniak’s statement has the ring of truth, but is it really accurate?
It’s Official: The Web Now As Popular As TV
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.
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Americans Now Watch 30 Minutes of Online Video Per Day
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.
World Cup a Boost to YouTube Mobile
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.
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Mobile Video Capture Soars; Now Brace Yourself for Views and Uploads
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.
World Cup Stats: Weekend Time Is TV Time
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.
Half of Internet Users Watch Online Video Every Week
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.
World Cup Stats: ESPN3 Beats Univision, ITV Scores in UK
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.
Online Video Viewing Declines in Q1
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.
Mobile Video Chat Revenues to Reach $3.4B by 2015
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.
Online Video Viewers: The Young, the Rich, the Educated
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.
Lost Series Finale a Twitter Earthquake
The season finale of Lost yesterday was seen by 13.5 million viewers in the U.S., plus millions more around the globe through…
The Future of TV: 5 Lessons for Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is always good for a rant, and one of his favorite pet peeves is Internet video. This week, he’s complaining…
File Sharers Are Young, Male and Good-Looking
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…
NBC Celebrates Olympics Results, Others Beg to Differ
The first online audience numbers for the 2010 Winter Olympics are coming in, and NBC (s GE) is ready to celebrate: The…
Twitter Reports It Has Grown to 50M Daily Tweets
Twitter is finally stopping to catch its breath and report its own stats. The company said in a blog post today that it is now receiving and distributing 50 million posts per day, or 600 tweets per second.
BBC iPlayer Usage Doubles in 2009
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s online video iPlayer continues to set records for viewership, essentially doubling its audience over the course of the…
Generation Internet: That's Anyone Under 30, Not Just Teens
Though it’s fun to talk about the digital habits of kids as if they are a separate SMS-crazed species, what happens after teens hit age 20? Do they turn the page on their youth and assimilate into adult Internet use? Maybe not.
White House State of the Union Stream Draws 1.3M
Updated: Across the TV networks, President Obama’s first State of the Union address last night drew an aggregate of 48 million viewers,…
This Year In Stats: Glee Beats Idol, Star Trek Rocks BitTorrent
Gleeks, you can be proud of yourself: Glee has not only been the show that dominated Twitter week after week after week…
Local TV Industry Revenues Down 22% for the Year
How bad are things in the U.S. TV industry? Pretty bad. 2009 revenues for local TV stations are expected to show a…
Glee Gives Thanks for Fan Tweets
What can we say about Glee and Twitter that we haven’t already said? Not much other than fans of the show still…
Study: Almost Half of U.S. Households Have HDTVs
Forty-six percent of U.S. households have at least one HDTV set, according to a new study from the Leichtman Research Group (LRG),…
Nielsen: Facebook Now the No. 3 Video Site
Looks like the sleeping online video giant that is Facebook may finally have awoken. According to Nielsen’s latest VideoCensus numbers, Facebook jumped…
Tweets Are Filled With Glee…Again
If we haven’t reached it yet, the Glee backlash is bound to happen soon. Though even as tired as I am of…
Nielsen: Vids Slip in Sept., Facebook in the Top 10
After a hot streak all summer long, online video stats are a bit more of a mixed bag for September, according to…
Vid-Biz: PostSeason.TV, NeuLion, Corey Feldman
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…
Jon & Kate and Letterman: Twitter Loves Tawdry TV Tweets!
David Letterman is used to creating lists, not being on them. Though we’re not sure how excited he is to be at…
One Quarter of Home Vid Rentals to Be OTT by 2014
Over the top and on demand are increasingly how people want to consume — and pay for — their video, if new…
Track Engagement With PostRank Analytics
Google Analytics (s goog) is a great tool for tracking who’s visiting your site and when, but how do you track things…
Forrester: Young Families Love Gadgets
It’s probably not too much of a surprise that HDTVs were the fastest growing technology in 2008, with roughly 10 million new…
Americans: More Media Consumption and Multitasking
Not only are Americans consuming more media, according to Nielsen’s latest Three Screen Report, but we are media multitasking as well, watching…
Network Audiences Put the “Old” in Oldteevee
The audience for live broadcast TV is older than ever. According to new research from Magna Global, the median ages for CBS…
comScore: My Oh My, What a Big July
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…
Mobile Video Phones Hot, Pay TV on Handsets, Not
Sales of video-enabled mobile phones will surge over the next four years, Infonetics projects in new research. Unfortunately, providers of mobile pay…
comScore: News Drove Views in June
Big news helped make June a record month for video viewers, according to the latest numbers from comScore. The research firm said…
Nielsen: Overall Stats Up, Bing Gets Dinged on Streams
July was a big month for online video, according to new numbers from Nielsen. Stats were up across the board, with more…
Report Sends Mixed Signals on Online Video Ad Market
While representing only 1.6 percent of total online and television advertising spending, and 4.3 percent of the online ad spend total, the…
Study: Lunch Time Is Prime Viewing Time
A new study from Yahoo (s YHOO), Interpret LLC, Havas Digital, Warner Bros. Media Research (s TWX) and PHD was announced this…
Paid Video to Outpace Free Video This Year
The global paid video market will reach $3.8 billion this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, outperforming the free,…
Vid-Biz: iPods, Watchmen, Nielsen
iPod Lineup to Get Video? Whispers of a video camera and pictures of a new case with a camera-friendly hole have blogs…
Snapstream’s TV Trends Charts TV Mentions
Snapstream launched a free, online analytics tool called TV Trends yesterday, which allows users to track the number of times particular words…
Vid-Biz: Joost, Firefox 3.5, Cabonauts
Joost Gets 12 New Content Partners; web TV service to get content from Marvel Enterprises, Speed Racer Entertainment, and TOEI Animation, among…
Nielsen: Almost 99 Percent of Video Watched on a TV Screen
Maybe Steve Jobs was right when he dismissed Amazon’s Kindle by stating bluntly that “people don’t read.” When would they find the…
What "American Idol" Can Teach Us About Stats
Stats are everywhere these days. From ballot measures to the economy to health issues to baseball — there are statistical points and…
Older Folks Helping Fuel Hulu’s growth
If Hulu is making thank-you cards to send out to the people who have helped make it a hit, the company needs…
Vid-Biz: Expletives, Loneliness, Food2
Supreme Court Sides with the FCC Over “Fleeting Expletives;” court says agency followed proper procedures when issuing fines for swearing on broadcast…
Oh Canada! Canucks Watch a Ton of Online Video
Americans tend to glom onto certain Canadian stereotypes (Aboot! Free health care! Geddy Lee!) and beat them into the ground. Well now…
The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Tweeting
Just when you thought the Twitter-verse couldn’t get any more vapid — BAM! — MTV’s The Hills creeps in to become one…
TV’s Web Revenues: $1.63B in 2008
TV networks made $1.63 billion on web advertising last year, according to a new report on the U.S. content market by Convergence…
StatShot: Idol Twitter and Jim Carrey
I don’t watch American Idol, so I’m not sure if there was some big scandalous upset last week, but something on the…
Observational Study Finds TV is Still Tops
In what is being billed as “the largest and most extensive observational study of media usage ever conducted,” TV was still (by…
Hulu Knocks Off Yahoo, According to Nielsen
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…
Another Black Eye for Openness: Hulu Stops MyMediaPlayer
Hulu opened itself up to criticism this week by disabling video playback for MyMediaPlayer, the open-source, easy-to-use desktop media player that offers…
Cord-Cutting May Be Myth Now, But Reality in 5-10 Years
Cord-cutting enthusiasts got a sobering dose of reality the last few weeks when a number of prominent analysts and research firms published…
comScore: Google Surpasses 6B Streams in January
Though comScore hasn’t officially released its numbers yet, Hulu was kind enough to share its copy of the VideoMetrix data for January…
Nielsen: Total Video Streams Top 10 Billion
Nielsen released its January VideoCensus data today, reporting that total video streams over the course of the month crossed the 10 billion…
Online Video Viewing Up, Impact on TV “Negligible”
Television is still king, despite gains being made online. That’s according to two separate research reports released today. Taken together, the studies…
StatShot: Grammy Tweets and a Body of Lies
The Grammys found gold on Twitter last night, with nearly 27,500 people buzzing about winners and losers. Heck, the official Grammy site…
14.3B Vids Viewed in December: comScore
The number of people watching videos online hit another record in December, according to stats released today from comScore. More than 14.3…
StatShot: Super-Sized Tweets
We’ve got a ton of TV-related Twitter action this week, and surprise, surprise, Trendrr says the Super Bowl (or “superbowl” for the…
Pew: Sure, Youngs Use Web Vid, But Olds Catching Up
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released its Generations Online in 2009 (PDF) report yesterday, breaking down how different generations are…
StatShot: Idol Twitter and Rocknrolla
The Twitter-verse worships an American Idol, as the popular singing contest/parade of trainwrecks returning to oldteevee dominated the micro-blogging service for the…
Nielsen Releases December Video Data
Nielsen today sent us its streaming video stats for December. There was nothing that immediately jumped out from the data, but if…
StatShot: 30Rock‘s all A-Twitter
Heroes lost some of its power on Trendrr‘s list of the top Twittered broadcast TV shows for the week ending Jan. 13,…
Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year
One way to think about online video is to consider how big a chunk it takes out of our daily lives. The…
Deloitte Study: Millennials, Mobile and More
Deloitte announced the results of its third annual “The State of the Media Democracy” report today, and it is packed to the…
StatShot: Most DVRd Shows This Season, Top TV Shows on Twitter
As you might expect, after dominating the weekly charts of the biggest DVR audiences, Grey’s Anatomy finds itself as the show with…
Sports Data Firm Stats Acquires SportVU, Provider of CNN’s Hologram Technology
Sports data provider Stats has acquired a rather buzzy company SportVU, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based motion-capture tech provider, for an undisc…
CNN “Hologram” Tech Co. Gets Acquired for Sports Stats
Israeli startup SportVU, which makes “automated ID and motion capture technology,” and was behind CNN’s sorta cool, mostly weird “beaming in” of its correspondents during Election Night coverage last month, was purchased by STATS.
Just Wow: YouTube Had 344M Global Uniques in Oct.
YouTube got 344 million global unique visitors in October. The site’s audience was disproportionately from Europe as compared to the web’s worldwide audience, with 37.8 percent of its visitors from Europe.
Video Viewers Up 27% from 2007; as for the Money…
Some 76 percent of consumers watch video on their PC, says a new international study from IBM. But how do IBM’s numbers about the consumption side match with current stats on online video revenue?
YouTube Calls Itself “World’s Largest Video Discovery Platform”
YouTube had 2.4 million searches in the U.S. in September, just a smidge fewer than Yahoo (which it had beat out the month before).
Gartner Sees $1.5B for Web Studio Video by 2012
Gartner estimates that worldwide ad revenue for “protail” video content will exceed $1.5 billion in 2012, up from $75 million in 2008.
Best Buy Forecast Down, Number of HDTVs Up (and Down)
Best Buy cut its earnings outlook for 2009, while LRG says that one-third of U.S. households now have at least one HDTV.
Vid-Biz: Web/TV Use, Cable Prices, Age
TV Watching and Internet Use Complement Each Other; according to a new Nielsen report, the more Internet you use, the more TV…
Two and a Half Men Is Tops Online
If you would have monitored more than 17,000 social media and social networking sites in the last week of September, looking at…
TubeMogul Acquires Illumenix
Web video syndication analytics firm TubeMogul acquired Illumenix, another video metrics company, today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Licensed P2P to Rise, But Piracy Will Dominate
A new report from research firm MultiMedia Intelligence predicts that licensed P2P transfers will grow 10 times faster than P2P piracy over the next five years.
Adobe Adds Dynamic Streaming and More to Flash Player
Adobe on Wednesday will launch Flash Player 10, the latest in its ubiquitous 13-year-old line of multimedia plug-ins. For online video watchers,…
Broadband Video Watchers Double; IPTV to Grow 64%
Two new bits of video research out today: One from ABI Research saying 63 percent of U.S. online households watch video in…
ComScore: YouTube Nears 5 Billion Views
Americans watched more than 11.4 billion videos and watched a total of 558 million hours of online video during the month of…
19% of U.S. Households Watch Online TV
Probably one of the most important benchmarks for online video, in my opinion, was the study conducted by TNS and the Conference…
comScore Reinstates YuMe, for Now
YuMe has yo-yoed back into eighth place in comScore’s newly released July U.S. ad network rankings. The video ad startup had previously…
Another Day. Another Ad Stat. $3.4B in 2011
UPDATE: When stats rain, they pour. EMarketer predicts that online video ad spending will hit $505 million this year and will grow…
TV by the Numbers: More Olympics Platforms Mean More Viewing
Written by Robert Seidman. It’s not often that the peacocks at NBC have much to puff their feathers out about. Other than…
$2.4B in U.S. Video Ads by 2010: Lehman
The investment bank Lehman Brothers, which basically discounted the potential of online video advertising in a recent report on digital entertainment, now…
People to Pony Up Billions for Premium Vids
Don’t let the deaths of Vongo and ClickStar fool you — there will be a market for Internet-delivered movies and TV shows,…
comScore Downgrades YuMe
When comScore released its U.S. ad network rankings for June last week, YuMe was at No. 8, a noteworthy feat considering the…
Report: Online Viewing Starts to Replace TV
Networks continue to insist that online television viewing is additive, but I for one think there’s no way that will last long…
CBS: 38 Is Young for Us!
When people brag about their young, attractive demographics, they’re usually talking about 18- to 34-year-olds, or thereabouts. If not that, younger. But…
YouTube Admits to Autoplay Count Problem
Just a quick check in to let everyone know that we’re still trying to find out what’s up with YouTube apparently still…
MySpaceTV Eats Into YouTube’s Market Share
Fox Interactive Media took a chunk out of Google and the rest of the competition’s U.S. video views in May, according to…
Report: User-Gen to Only Ever Account for 4% of Video Revenue
User-generated video will account for 42 percent of streams this year, but only 4 percent of online video revenue, according to an…
Nielsen: TV Up Online Vids Down (Slightly)
The reports of oldteevee’s deaths may be premature, if new stats from Nieslen are any indication. TV watching is up, with more…
Will Digital Revenue Ever Replace What It’s Displacing?
We’re fairly certain television is being reinvented, but that doesn’t mean digital revenues can ever replace the analog ones they’re running out…
YouTube No Longer Counting Autoplays?
Based on anecdotal evidence from several top YouTube video producers, we have reason to believe the site has stopped counting views from…
Get Ready for “OmniVideo”
Video will become so ubiquitous and pervasive in five years that it will be almost difficult to avoid, according to a recent…
comScore: Video Views Drop in April
Perhaps with the writers’ strike over, people went back to oldteevee in April. U.S. Internet viewers watched approximately 11 billion videos online…
Video to Drive 50% of Net Traffic
Internet video will account for half of all consumer Internet traffic by 2012, according to new research from Cisco. In its Visual…
Tots and Teens Dig the NewTeeVee
Watch out, oldteevee! According to new Nielsen data, the next generation of video watchers is spending even more time with online video…
Strike Cost CA $2.1 Billion; Online Movies & TV Shows to Bring in $674M
The three-month-long Writers Guild of America strike will cost California $2.1 billion in lost output from Nov. 2007 to the end of…
TV Tops, But PC Video Watching Grows
While oldteevee remains the top video-watching dog for most people, the PC is gaining ground, according to a recent study by Ipsos…
Nielsen: U.S. Video Streams Up 9% in April
Nielsen measured more than 7.6 billion video streams in the U.S. in April, up 9 percent from the 6.9 billion it measured…
Hulu Leads Network Sites, Adds Partners
Hulu just broke into the top 10 of all online video sites, according to Nielsen’s April measure. The site, which has only…
Report: YouTube, Yahoo Relax Standards to Inflate Views
In the last year, both YouTube and Yahoo, two of the three biggest online video sites, have become more lenient about how…
Forrester: Get More Ads in Online TV, Stat
TV networks need to amp up advertising in their online streaming, and do it fast, says Forrester analyst James McQuivey in a…
comScore: 11.5B Video Views in March
Online video continued its ascent in March, with comScore reporting U.S. Internet users watched 11.5 billion online videos during the month. This…
Vid-Biz: Accenture, CBS, Family Guy
Media Execs Expect Big Revenue Growth for Short-Form Video; 38 percent of respondents to Accenture’s latest media survey say short videos will…
Nielsen: Vid Viewers Down, Vid Views Up
Nielsen today released its March VideoCensus numbers, saying it saw a slight decrease in U.S. unique video viewers — to 115.4 million,…
comScore: Video Views up 66% YoY
comScore today said it measured an increase in U.S. video views and video viewers for February, up 3 percent from January but…
YouTube Up 32% Year-over-Year
YouTube grabbed 73.18 percent of all U.S. visits to online video sites in March, representing a 32 percent year-over-year increase, according to…
“Heavy” Video Watchers Skewing Stats?
comScore, in collaboration with the Havas-owned digital agency Media Contacts, took a step towards defining “heavy” and “light” online video watchers today,…
Report: $6.6B in Online Video Ads by 2012
Ad revenue from streaming video, the very category writers just struck for three months over, will be worth $6.6 billion in 2012,…
Jupiter: $768M in Video Ads, Latent Demand for TV Shows
JupiterResearch, which predicts online video advertising in the U.S. will reach $768 million in 2008 (that part is apparently from an older…
YouTube Update: Majority of Traffic is International
Silicon Alley Insider has notes from a speech by David Eun, Google VP of content partnerships, at the SIIA Information Industry Summit…
Need-to-Know Web Video Stats: Traffic, Rentals, Revenues, UGC
comScore finally released its online video traffic stats from November today, showing YouTube up healthily and a total of 9.5 billion online…
New Stats Show Vid-Biz Ending ’07 Strong
A bevy of recent research sheds light on a variety of topics including ad effectiveness, the types of content being watched (or…
