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June 22, 2009

French TV fiction suffers at U.S. dominance

quotemarksright.jpgU.S. TV series are giving French fiction programming a run for its money, having monopolized the Gallic small screen last year according to figures from French audiovisual promotion association the APA, released Monday.

French fictional programs took just 13 of the top 100 most-watched shows for 2008, while U.S. imports monopolized the list with 57 spots.

This marks a major shift from 2005 when French fiction took 56 of the same 100 spots and U.S. shows just four. quotesmarksleft.jpg

Read full article in The Hollywood Reporter.

June 15, 2009

YouTube Streaming One Billion Videos A Day

youtube-one-billion-lg.jpg Despite Nielson and ComScore calculating much lower figures, Google has ‘fessed up that their YouTube service is the most popular its ever been, streaming an incredible one billion videos a day worldwide. Digital-Lifestyles reports.

quotemarksright.jpg... It’s a little unclear why Google has kept schtum about their success, although it’s been suggested that under reporting the viewing figures may YouTube Streaming One Billion Videos A Dayhave helped them in their various copyright infringement cases, or that they weren’t keen on analysts finding out too much about their costings.quotesmarksleft.jpg

[via TechCrunch]


June 11, 2009

Estimate: 20% of Web Videos Are Spam

According to VideoSurf CTO Eitan Sharon, there are 500 million videos on the web today, (VideoSurf has only indexed 25 million of them so far though it recently stepped up efforts by doubling the size of its server farm).

quotemarksright.jpgWith so many more videos yet to be analyzed, it could be that much more or much less than 20 percent of all videos are spam. But it’s pretty daunting to think of so many irrelevant spammy videos out there, especially considering the costs involved with hosting and delivering them.quotesmarksleft.jpg

[via GigaOM]

June 10, 2009

Soon, there will be so much video on the Web we'll be talking about "zettabytes"

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Fueled by the insatiable demand for Web-based video, global Internet traffic will get nearly four times larger over the next four years. Scientific American reports.

quotemarksright.jpgBy the end of 2013, the equivalent of 10 billion DVDs worth of information will cross the Net monthly, according to a report issued today by Cisco Systems.

If this prediction holds true, it would take more than half a million years to watch all the online video that crosses the Internet in just a single month by 2013, the company reports.

Cisco forecasts that video files will be part of 90 percent of all consumer Internet traffic in 2013.

Cisco needed a relatively new term to quantify that traffic: A zettabyte is measure of computer storage or memory equal to one trillion gigabytes. One gigabyte can hold about 341 digital pictures or about 256 MP3 audio files.)quotesmarksleft.jpg

Related:

-- The Exaflood - Technology experts are calling it the exaflood, a massive wave of new video and other bandwith intensive traffic headed for the web.

May 27, 2009

Illegal downloads soar as hard times bite

Hundreds of thousands more Australians have turned to illegal download sites in the past year to save money on movies, music, software and TV shows during the economic downturn, new figures show. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

quotemarksright.jpgTotal visits by Australians to BitTorrent websites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, TorrentReactor and Torrentz grew from 785,000 in April last year to 1,049,000 in April this year, Nielsen says. This is a year-on-year increase of 33.6 per cent.

The figures, which do not include peer-to-peer software such as Limewire, are in line with a Newspoll survey of 700 Australians in April, which found almost two-thirds of respondents said they were more tempted to buy or obtain pirated products in tough financial times.quotesmarksleft.jpg

May 15, 2009

Facebook On the Verge of Being a Top 10 Video Site

According to ComScore stats, Facebook is very nearly a top 10 U.S. video site. It’s in slot No. 11, just behind Disney.

[via GigaOM]

April 6, 2009

Vodafone says 62% of Dutch viewers watch TV on demand'

A study by Vodafone Netherlands revealed the rising use of television on 'demand', with old-fashioned, or linear, television seen not fitting in the Dutch lifestyle. Trading Markets reports.

quotemarksright.jpgAbout three quarters of Dutch people view delayed television, with 62 percent watching online and 35 percent saving the show for later viewing.

From those surveyed, 77 percent said they could not watch television during the normal broadcast times, while 34 percent prefer to determine personal viewing time.

Almost one third of respondants expect to watch more television outside the home in the next two years, with 28 percent forecasting more mobile viewing.quotesmarksleft.jpgTrading Markets]

March 30, 2009

Facebook: 40% of Videos Are Webcam Uploads

This is wild. According to Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee, 40 percent 37 percent of Facebook video uploads come from webcams.

Facebook's Software engineer Chris Putnam, the lead video developer for the site, told Liz Gannes last week that Facebook receives some 260,000 video uploads per day, with an additional 155,000 of them daily video uploads directly from webcams.

March 21, 2009

Surge in demand for online video

British demand for online video sites has shot up over the past year, according to a new study by research firm Hitwise. It found that UK internet traffic to video websites was up 40.7%. The BBC reports.

quotemarksright.jpgYouTube is the most popular destination, followed by the BBC iPlayer and Google Video.

UK traffic to iPlayerr has increased by 152.1% over the last 12 months, peaking over Christmas 2008, and is now the 22nd most visited UK website.quotesmarksleft.jpg

Read full article.

February 12, 2009

'Lost,' 'SNL,' 'Grey's' Tops in Online Viewing, Nielsen Says

In the first report of its kind on online video viewership of television shows, Nielsen reported today that “Lost” is the most popular TV show watched on the Web, followed by “Saturday Night Live” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” TVWeek reports.

quotemarksright.jpg“Lost” drew 1.4 million unique viewers in December, “Saturday Night Live” attracted 1.1 million, and the ABC medical drama lured 879,000 uniques, Nielsen said.

The measurement company tracks viewing on network Web sites but not on Hulu, which is a major player in the online television business. quotesmarksleft.jpg

These figures are for the US and from TV Networks. They don't include watching TV series on Megavideo, one of the 100 most visited websites in the United States, according to Wikipedia. And what about the rest of the world, where viewing TV online is our only option. If there was a handle on those figures, maybe something would be done to settle foreign copy issues and allows Europeans and Asians to access video content legally.

February 6, 2009

YouTube sets online video record

New figures show that December was a record month for viewing videos online, reports the BBC.

quotemarksright.jpgOnline clips were watched more than four billion times by over 30 million people according to internet monitor comScore.

YouTube was the big winner though, pulling in almost 24 million unique users, meaning it reached 77% of everyone who watched videos online.quotesmarksleft.jpg

January 21, 2009

Online Video of Inauguration Sets Records

21video-inline1-500.jpg Internet traffic in the United States hit a record peak at the start of President Obama’s speech as people watched, read about and commented on the inauguration, according to Bill Woodcock, the research director at the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit organization that analyzes online traffic. The figures surpassed even the high figures on the day President Obama was elected. The New York Times reports.

quotemarksright.jpg... CNN said it provided more than 21.3 million video streams over a nine-hour span up to midafternoon. That blew past the 5.3 million streams provided during all of Election Day. At its peak, CNN.com fed 1.3 million live streams simultaneously, according to Jennifer Martin, a spokeswoman for the site.

Akamai, which helps companies meet demand for their online offerings, worked with media companies like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Viacom to stream live video. It reported a record-breaking day, feeding up seven million video streams at one time.quotesmarksleft.jpg

Though there were some complaints of people who could not access CNN, and CNN posted a note online saying they were in line to receive a working stream. I watched a full two hours successfully of live streaming from both CNN and Fox News (via Hulu). What a day.

January 17, 2009

Survey: Web Video Beats TV Among Respondents Ages 18-24

Coveted 18- to-24-year-old consumers now spend more time watching Web-distributed video than broadcast television, according to a new survey released by online video ad network LiveRail Media Post News reports.

quotemarksright.jpgWe polled several hundred under-25-year-olds, and an overwhelming majority are now watching as much or more video content online as on regular TV," said Mark Trefgarne, CEO of LiveRail. "We were genuinely surprised by the results."

Rather than short-form consumer-generated media, Trefgarne attributes this trend largely to an increase in the availability of quality long-form content from sites like Hulu and TV.com.

Of these respondents, 53% stated that in an average month they spent "more time watching online video than TV." About 19% of respondents said they watched "about the same," while 28% said they watched "more TV than online video."quotesmarksleft.jpg

January 6, 2009

Online video viewing jumps 34 percent

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Internet users in the U.S. watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to numbers released Monday by market researcher ComScore. cnet news reports.

quotemarksright.jpgThanks to YouTube, Google Sites retained the crown as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.1 billion videos viewed--or about 40 percent of all videos viewed online--with the video-sharing site accounting for more than 98 percent of Google's traffic.

Fox Interactive Media was a distant second with 439 million videos watched (or 3.5 percent), followed by Viacom Digital with 325 million videos watched (2.6 percent).

The data also showed that 77 percent of all U.S. Internet users had viewed online videos in 2008, and that the average online video viewer watched 273 minutes of video. quotesmarksleft.jpg

ComScore full press release

December 29, 2008

YouTube, Hulu Still Growing, Nielsen Says

YouTube delivered nearly 5.6 billion streams to nearly 85 million unique visitors in November, up from 5 billion streams served to about 83 million visitors in October.

Fox Interactive Media, dominated by MySpace, held onto the No. 2 ranking for online videos, delivering 244 million streams to 20 million unique visitors in November, about on par with October’s haul.

The third most-popular site, Hulu, served up about 221 million streams to about 7.5 million unique visitors last month, an increase from 206 million videos in October watched by 9 million unique visitors.

[via TVWeek]

December 19, 2008

Study: Young people watch less TV

A new survey has found that "millennials," the generation of ages 14-25, watch just 10.5 hours of TV a week. That's compared to 19.2 hours a week for baby boomers.

[The Hollywood Reporter via TV Tattle]

Hulu Growing Fast, But YouTube's Still Far Out in Front

hulu-logo.jpg Hulu is reaching farther into the mainstream with explosive growth in views in October, according to the latest video viewing figures from Nielsen Online, reports TV Week.

quotemarksright.jpgThe site rocketed in October, delivering 206 million streams of video, up from 142 million in September. The number of unique visitors rose to 9 million in October, up from 6.3 million in September.

Overall, YouTube continues to be the biggest dog on the block, drawing nearly 83 million unique visitors watching 5 billion streams in October, compared with 82 million unique visitors watching a little more than 5 billion streams in September.

Fox Interactive, led by MySpace, was the second most visited video site in October, attracting 18 million unique visitors to 244 million streams, about on par with the month before.quotesmarksleft.jpg

December 13, 2008

YouTube Grows - But Loses Market Share

According to the latest comScore report about the online video market, U.S. Internet users watched close to 13.5 billion videos online in October, which represents an increase of 45 percent compared to last year. Google's YouTube alone served almost 5.4 billion videos to 99.5 million viewers.

However, according to a report by AdAge, there was some negative news for YouTube in these numbers as well: the site's overall market share dropped almost 10% since July, as Hulu and other services are getting more attention from users than ever before.

[via The New York Times]

December 10, 2008

YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008

According to new comScore figures, U.S. Internet users viewed 13.5 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 45 percent versus year ago.

[via MarketWatch]

November 26, 2008

Study: 18% of people can’t tell if they’re watching true HDTV content or not

Apparently some 18 percent of HDTV owners can’t tell the difference between high-def programming and standard-def programing when viewed on their screens. That’s what Leichtman Research Group concludes based on a survey of 1,302 households.

[via Crunchgear]

November 21, 2008

DVDs, Hollywood’s Profit Source, Are Sagging

DVDs propel profits these days, and there is a creeping dread in the movie capital that buyer interest is plummeting as the global economic crisis worsens. The New York Times reports.

quotemarksright.jpgSo far, total DVD sales are down by about 4 percent for the year, with most of that weakness coming in October, according to data compiled by Warner Brothers, the largest distributor of DVDs.

The independent tracking service Nielsen VideoScan paints a bleaker picture, reporting a 9 percent drop in overall DVD sales during the third quarter alone and a 22 percent decline in sales of higher-priced new titles, although its data does not include results at Wal-Mart.quotesmarksleft.jpg

Read full article.

November 8, 2008

Obama campaign-related videos garnered 14.5 million hours of viewing on YouTube

Obama campaign-related videos garnered 14.5 million hours of viewing on YouTube, according to Democratic political consultant Joe Trippi. He estimates that amount of time would have cost $47 million to buy on TV or about half the amount the McCain campaign received in public financing.

... Just as the power of television, via televised debates, was credited with helping John Kennedy win the presidency over Richard Nixon in 1960, the panelists agreed with Web 2.0 Summit moderator John Heilemann that in 2008 the Web had at least as significant a role.

[via Internet News]

November 6, 2008

Tudou: China's answer to YouTube

garywang460.jpg With 12 million users a day, Gary Wang's Tudou is the biggest video sharing site in China - and it's set to get much, much bigger. The Guardian reports.

quotemarksright.jpgMost commentators expect the moving image to dominate the next phase of the internet around the globe, but in China this trend has already begun in earnest.

Tudou - China's answer to YouTube - was started in January 2005 (a month before YouTube) by 35-year-old Gary Wang. Nearly four years later, Tudou has some 12 million users a day and 75 million unique users a month. It serves 100m videos a day, numbers that make it the biggest video-sharing site in China.

... Speaking to the Guardian at the recent Mipcom TV market in Cannes, Wang explains that of the 13m video clips currently on Tudou, somewhere between 30% and 70% are of a type acceptable to advertisers.

Wang says that so far only about 5% of Tudou's video inventory is being monetised with advertising; analysts estimate that YouTube is monetising only 3% of its total video inventory. The biggest hurdle for both sites is attracting advertisers to user-generated videos where the type of content is hard to predict.quotesmarksleft.jpg

Read full article.

November 5, 2008

UK. Games to outsell music, video


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UK sales of games will outstrip music and video for the first time in 2008, says a report from Verdict Research, reports the BBC.

quotemarksright.jpgA huge shift in consumer attitudes has turned video games into the UK's most popular form of entertainment, say the retail analysts.

In the last five years the video games market has more than doubled in value, while music sales have stagnated.

... The ERA's most recent figures for 2007 show sales of games software at £1.7bn(2$.7bn), compared to £1.4bn ($2.2bn) in music sales and £2.2bn ($3.5bn) for video revenues. quotesmarksleft.jpg


November 4, 2008

Popular Demand

All of the top videos in the news and politics category on YouTube for the 30-day period ended Sunday were about the presidential election.

[via The New York Times]

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October 29, 2008

What's Hot on Hulu

m_FamilyGuy_logo.gif Another insightful article on Hulu today, this time from USA Today - with some interesting facts about what's hot(est).

quotemarksright.jpgHulu's library includes more than 1,000 TV shows and 400 movies, but "Homer Simpson" and "Family Guy" helped put the service on the map.

"Family Guy" is Hulu's most viewed show. No. 2 is another Fox show, one that no longer airs and never saw Nielsen TV rating success: "Arrested Development".

In third place is FX's cult favorite," It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", and then two series from NBC -" The Office" and "Saturday Night Live".

Shows generally appear on Hulu a few hours after their network appearance, although this week the "30 Rock" season premiere has been online ahead of Thursday night's showing. quotesmarksleft.jpg

October 28, 2008

The Most Watched TV Shows Are Not The Most Talked About Online

Measuring viewer “engagement” on TV is simple. You count how many people tune into a given show. It stands to reason that the most popular shows would also be the most popular ones on social networks. But that is not exactly the case.
TechCrunch

quotemarksright.jpg"Gray’s Anatomy" ranked No. 8 in social network interactions versus No. 1 on broadcast TV. "Desperate Housewives", No. 2 on TV, doesn’t even rank on social networks, possibly because people don’t like to talk about their guilty pleasures.

More surprising is that "The Office" doesn’t rank in the social network list either, but "Criminal Minds" does (at No. 2).quotesmarksleft.jpg

Click here for full article and charts.

October 25, 2008

Sarah Palin 'SNL' Online Videos Soon to Eclipse TV

Among the Top ‘Most Popular’ Shorts on Hulu.com, Vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's appearance was very good for “Saturday Night Live,” bringing the show its best ratings in 14 years.

But the number of people who have watched the clips on the web is closing fast, and will soon surpass the 15 million that watched on TV, if it hasn't already.

[Adage via Techmeme]

October 21, 2008

YouTube has Hit with First Full Length Studio Film Debut

princess-of-nebraska_web.jpg YouTube has premiered its first full-length studio film, "The Princess of Nebraska," by Wayne Wang and has garnered some 160,000 views since Friday night and a positive review in today's New York Times by movie critic A.O. Scott. [via Beet.tv]

Previously: - Film by Wayne Wang premieres on YouTube channel for free

October 16, 2008

NBC Viewership Getting Boost From Web Video, VOD, Mobile Play

NBC, the most ratings-challenged among broadcast networks of a live, prime-time viewing audience so far this season, is getting a boost in viewership for several of its programs. This is coming from Internet streaming videos, and to a lesser extent, VOD and mobile viewing, according to Total Audience Measure Index (TAMi) data released by the network. MediaWeek reports.

quotemarksright.jpgThe show benefiting the most from viewership via media platforms other than TV is The Office, which through its first two episodes was downloaded 52,163 times via iTunes, Microsoft and Amazon and viewed by 48,879 mobile users; and had a total of 8.7 million Internet video streams. Six streams of a particular episode equal one show viewed, but those 8.7 million streams also include one-for-one episodes viewed on Hulu.com.quotesmarksleft.jpg

Read full article

October 14, 2008

More searches on YouTube than Yahoo

This is wild. According to comScore’s expanded search query report, Internet users now conduct more searches on YouTube (2.5 billion in August) than they do on Yahoo (2.4 billion).

[via Bits]

October 12, 2008

Entertainment industry made up $250 billion/750,000 jobs losses due to piracy

Ars Technica's Julian Sanchez takes a long, investigative look at the entertainment industry's claim that piracy costs the American economy 750,000 jobs and $250 billion and discovers the truth: they made it up and repeated it until they forgot they had made it up.

[via boingboing]

September 23, 2008

Study: Series TV showing more gays, lesbians

Broadcast television will have 16 gay and bisexual regular characters in prime-time series this fall, more than double the seven of a year ago, a new study has found. Yahoo TV reports.

"The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said it was a positive sign of networks making their shows more representative, although more work needed to be done. These characters accounted for 2.6 percent of all the regular characters in TV series, up from 1.1 percent last year and 1.3 percent in 2006, according to the study, released Monday."

September 18, 2008

10% of Employees watch some form of video while at work

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According to the WSJ, in a study of traffic on corporate networks to find out what employees really do online, it was found that nearly 10% of all network bandwidth came from sites like YouTube, Hulu, and even Slingbox, a program that lets people watch television from their computers.

“Employees are staying entertained,” Steve Mullaney, Palo Alto’s vice president of marketing, tells the Business Technology Blog. And often they’re doing it without the information-technology department’s knowledge.

September 5, 2008

19% of U.S. Households Watch Online

Nearly one-fifth” of American Internet households watch TV broadcasts online, double the viewership from 2006, according to latest research from The Conference Board and TNS Mmarket Research.

"In its study of 10,000 households, TNS and the Conference Board found that of those who watch TV online, 43 percent tune into the news, the most popular category. Thirty-nine percent watch drama shows, 34 percent sitcom/comedy shows, 23 percent reality shows, 16 percent sports, and 15 percent user-generated content."

[via NewTeeVee]

August 25, 2008

Preferring the Web Over Watching TV

For children ages 10 to 14 who use the Internet, the computer is a bigger draw than the TV set, according to a study recently released by DoubleClick Performics, a search marketing company.

The study found that 83 percent of Internet users in that age bracket spent an hour or more online a day, but only 68 percent devoted that much time to television.

[via The New York Times]

July 14, 2008

Video rentals hold their own

Data from DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals show the home video business is holding up well despite the down economy, the high price of gas and any consumer shift toward the Internet.

Consumer spending on DVDs and Blu-ray in the first six months of the year, purchases and rentals combined, was up 1.6% from spending in first-half 2007, according to Home Media Magazine's market research department.

The first-half 2008 tally: $10.77 billion, compared with $10.6 billion a year ago.

[via Reuters]

July 11, 2008

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 upcoming study from The Diffusion Group.

Conversely, professional online video will account for 58 percent of streams and 96 percent of revenue. Those trends are expected to hold for the next five years.

[via NewTeeVee]

July 8, 2008

Nielsen Reports TV, Internet and Mobile Usage Among Americans

The Nielsen Company today released the first comparable U.S. figures showing video and TV usage across the 'three screens' - Television, Internet and Mobile devices. (pdf)

Nielsen's findings show that screen time of the average American continues to increase with TV users watching more TV than ever before (127hrs, 15 min per month), while also spending 9% more time using the Internet (26 hrs, 26 min per month) from last year.

At the same time, a small but growing number of Internet and mobile phone users are watching video online (2 hrs, 19 min per month), as well as using their cell phones to watch video (3 hrs, 15 min per month).

[via PR Newswire]

June 28, 2008

Two-Thirds of College Kids Watch Online Video

Two-thirds of college kids watch online video; at the same time, rates of TV ownership dropped to 79 percent this year from 82 percent the year before.

[NewTeeVee]

June 26, 2008

Half UK web videos are from YouTube

According to new research from Comscore, almost half of all internet videos watched by Britons come from YouTube, reports Metro.

"During March, 48% of the 3.5 billion web videos watched in the UK came from Google sites, of which 99% were from YouTube.

... The BBC only has 1.2% share of the video viewing market despite the launch of the BB's iPlayer catch-up service. "

June 20, 2008

China Has 160 Million Online Video Users

China Internet Network Information Center's latest report on China's online video sector shows that there have been 160 million online video users in China.

[via China tech News]

May 13, 2008

Web Video Viewing Up 64% In March, Led by YouTube

Internet users in the U.S. watched 11.5 billion online videos in March, a 64% gain from one year earlier, led by Google’s YouTube with more than 4.3 billion views in the month, according to research firm comScore.

The videos viewed in the month, up 13% from February, came from almost 139 million users, or 73.7% of the total U.S. Internet audience, comScore estimates.

The average online video viewer watched 235 minutes of video.

[via Multichannel News]

April 18, 2008

Hulu videos have been embedded more than 100,000 times

Like YouTube, Hulu users can embed their video player anywhere on the Internet.

Hulu videos have been embedded more than 100,000 times on more than 12,000 Web sites, CEO Jason Kilar said during a presentation Wednesday at the National Association of Broadcasters 2008 conference.

[via News Blog]

March 18, 2008

Phones to outsell TV sets in 2008

Consumers worldwide will buy more multimedia mobile phones than TV sets this year, according to a new report from Research and Markets. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

"The Dublin, Ireland-based firm predicts that 300 million such phones that can play audio and video and browse the Internet will be sold in 2008. Its new report, "Mobile Media 2008: The Third Screen for Entertainment," also found that half the world's population, or 3.3 billion people, now have a mobile phone subscription. "


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