Online Video Views Soaring
Data from Comscore says video views soared over 66% in February over the year before. Comscore also says TV networks are starting to fight back with sights like Hulu.com. This is also what the writer's strike was all about. Video is rapidly moving online and everybody wants a piece of the pie.Posted on April 18, 2008
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Nine Billion Videos Watched Online in September
Internet Retailer cites a ComScore report that found people viewed 9 billion videos online in September. 3/4 of all Internet users in the U.S. watched at least one video online during the month of September.Nearly 75% of U.S. Internet users watched a video online in September, averaging three hours of video per person during the month, according to comScore Video Metrix. Google Sites, which includes YouTube.com, topped the September rankings with both the most unique video viewers and most videos viewed.The average length of the videos watch was justed was 2.7 minutes so these are not much longer than the average television commercial break.
Americans viewed more than 9 billion videos online, with Google Sites ranking as the top U.S. video property with 2.6 billion videos viewed (28.3% share of videos), 2.5 billion of which occurred at YouTube.com (27.6%). Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 387 million videos viewed (4.2%), of which 360 million were watched at MySpace.com, which Fox owns. Yahoo Sites ranked third with 381 million videos viewed (4.1%), followed by Viacom Digital with 304 million (3.3%).
Posted on December 4, 2007
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ZonTube Mashes Amazon and YouTube
ZonTube is a handy website that mashes results from Amazon.com's music store with videos on YouTube.com. Search for an artist and then select an album from that artist and ZonTube will show you a list of songs from the album. Each song that has YouTube videos available will have a link next to it that shows you the videos from YouTube. Some of the videos on youTube are made by fans and some of them are the official videos for the song. Lifehacker explains how you would find music videos for the songs from Norah Jones' latest album.
Say you're looking for the new Norah Jones album and would like to see if there's a music video out yet for any of the songs. You can use ZonTube to instantly find out if Norah indeed has released any music vids for every song on her album, and watch them right there within ZonTube. ZonTube is organized into categories from Alternative Rock to Soundtracks (with sub-categories for each); you can also click on the frequently updated New Releases to find out what's up and coming.Some of the more popular artists have more videos on YouTube. For example, Britney Spears' Oops!... I Did It Again album has YouTube videos for pratically every song on the album. You can see the ZonTube page for this album here.
Posted on January 23, 2007
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The Emergence of Clip Culture
BBC has an interesting article about what it calls the emergence of a "clip culture." The article talks about the growing popularity of both streaming video and the short viral video clips that people like to email to friends and post in blogs. The article mentions MSN Video and YouTube as two popular websites for video clips.The emergence of video sharing sites is yet another seemingly instant internet success story that has caught many by surprise.The article says there are three different types of clips: amateur clips, montage videos and short clips from television shows or movies. The third category has caused the most concerns in Hollywood. NBC recently overreacted and removed a popular Saturday Night Clip, called the Lazy Sunday viral, from YouTube. Eventually, the networks will probably cut deals with sites like YouTube to allow the videos to be distributed around the web as long as a short ad is included.
Last month, two sites, MSN Video and Youtube, attracted nearly 10 million unique US visitors each.
While those numbers are relatively insignificant when compared with network television viewership, widespread video sharing is just getting started.
Youtube, which is home to 25 million videos and streams 15 million of them each day, just launched its service last year.
Most of the videos on Youtube and other video sharing services are not full-length features.
Posted on March 20, 2006
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Dabble Aggregates Online Video
Dabble is a new website that allows you to aggregate online videos. Om Malik offers this description of Dabble from a recent post about the service.
Essentially you sign-up for the service and create a personal page, where you can aggregate videos you like from anywhere on the web. Dabble gives you a little script-let that creates a quick tag in the bookmark bar of your browser. See a video you like, say on You Tube or vSocial or Veoh, you hit Dabble It, and the video link is added to your video playlist. You can tag it, create micro-playlists and share it amongst your friend. Pretty much like you do on Flickr. When you want to watch a video, Dabble screen is split into two frames, and the second frame takes you to the page where the video is hosted.It sounds like a useful service. There is so much competition in web video these days it is difficult to say what companies will make it and which will not.
Posted on February 2, 2006
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YouTube is a Video Sharing Resource
YouTube, which bills itself as "your digital video repository," allows web surfers to upload videos to the site and tag them. The videos can then be shared openly with the public or privately shared only with friends and family. People can search the site to see the videos open to the public. For example, here are all the videos tagged under "dog." The website also listed the most popular and the most discussed videos. YouTube says it accepts video files from most digital cameras and from cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats. Posted on July 25, 2005
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Blinkx Expands to Include Podcast and Vlog Searches
TechWeb reports that Blinkx, a video search tool, has expanded to include searches of both podcasts and vlogs. The company says it is biggest Podcast repository online and that they are currently tracking over 20,000 podcasts. There are not nearly as many vlogs on the web as podcasts but the number is expected to climb as better software and editing tools come available to consumers. TechWeb has more on Blinkx's plans.
Blinkx's site focuses on TV video, which it searches and shows through partnerships with content providers, such as CNN and Fox News. In order to gain access to content not available for free over the web, Blinkx, like other video search engines, has to negotiate agreements with the content providers.
In the case of podcasts, which are programming created by individuals; or video blogs, the multimedia version of weblogs, the content is available directly on the web, and therefore searchable by Blinkx's web crawlers, Suranga Chandratillake, founder of the company, said.
Blinkx decided to start searching the new forms of web content because of demand from people using its service and the fact that the company has seen a 25-fold increase in the amount of the material available on the web, Chandratillake said. Podcasts make up 95 percent of the content, and video blogs 5 percent.
Posted on June 30, 2005
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