It’s an epidemic! Online video viewing soars
The number of young adults watching online video on sites like YouTube or video-on-demand is at “near-universal” levels, according to new research. The number of people watching online video has nearly doubled since 2006, with 62% of adults saying they watched online video this year, up from just 33% three years ago. The study said: […]
Online Video Usage Exploding, Study Says
Hold on to your bandwidth – online video is growing in popularity, according to Wednesday data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. About 62 percent of adults who use the Internet have watched video online, up from 33 percent in December 2006. Not surprisingly, online video is most popular among those aged 18 […]
Time Spent On Facebook Increases 700%
The total time spent on Facebook has increased nearly 700% year over year, according to Nielsen. Nielsen reported Tuesday that total time spent on the social networking site rose from 1.7 billion minutes in April 2008 to 13.9 billion minutes in April 2009, making it the top social network in terms of the amount of […]
Nielsen Knows How Much Time You Waste On Facebook, Twitter
According to a study by Nielsen Online, users spent 13.9 billion minutes overall on Facebook alone in April 2009, a statistic that’s up a whopping 700 percent from the 1.7 billion minutes calculated at the same time a year earlier. It’s another sign of Facebook’s exploding popularity, and not a bad statistic for a social […]
Online Video Watching In US Hits Record
Americans watched a record number of videos on the Internet in April with the average U.S. Internet user viewing 6.4 hours of online video during the month. Altogether the U.S. Internet audience watched almost 16.8 billion videos on the Web in April, up 16 percent from 14.5 billion videos March, according to comScore Video Metrix, […]
How People Share Online Video in 2009
In a world of continuous technological change, the concept of “new” can get old. Take online video, for example. A few short years ago, the term “online video” was wishful thinking. Clips could only be slowly downloaded. They had to be viewed in tiny windows on the computer screen. Sound and graphics were primitive. Video […]
Online Video: Step Up + Step Out!
Cutting through the advertising clutter is the goal of any business – small, medium or large. While many companies remain committed to what has worked in the past, some have taken to technology, and online / web video, to spread their message. Their choice to “step up and step out” has placed those businesses, more often than not, […]
Watch Online Videos? You Were Probably YouTubing
Online video viewing is growing like crazy—nearly 15 billion Internet users viewed online videos in January alone. To further illustrate that phenomenon, YouTube surpassed 100 million viewers for the first time that month, according to new research. The study from ComScore found that the number of Americans watching video online jumped 4 percent from December […]
The Key to Online Marketing = Web Video
Marketing any service or product always comes with it’s own unique set of challenges, and marketing online can be an even bigger challenge. These days, many companies are feeling the push to do ‘more’ online, but with the Internet appearing to be a big, complex place sometimes- they just don’t know where to start. So some aren’t […]
Why Businesses Need Web Video, Now.
Most small/medium business owners today say they don’t need a new marketing strategy, a branding review, and they definitely don’t want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a 30-second TV commercial. Most of them are looking for a simple and effective way to explain who they are, what they do, and the value […]