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Americans View 34 Percent More Online Videos in November 2008 Compared to Year Ago
Hulu Sustains Strong Online Viewership on the Heels of October Surge RESTON, VA, January 5, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released November 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion ...
TV.com relaunches as Hulu competitor
TV.com relaunches as Hulu competitor
obsessable.com — TV.com, formerly just a database of TV info, has been turned by parent company CBS into an... online TV-watching hub aiming to steal your attention from Hulu and Joost. Been catching up on episodes of Heroes and 24 over at Hulu.com? You and a few million other people ! CBS hopes to steal some ... (more) TV.com relaunches as Hulu competitor
Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year [NewTeeVee]
Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year [NewTeeVee]
newteevee.com — One way to think about online video is to consider how big a chunk it takes out... of our daily lives. The amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year over year. Watchers tuned in for 273.1 minutes of ... (more) Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year [NewTeeVee]
CBS Tries to Out-Hulu Hulu with TV.com
CBS Tries to Out-Hulu Hulu with TV.com
newteevee.com — As was expected , CBS is revamping TV.com to be a video-viewing destination. The well-URLed site, which... six months ago started featuring Hulu content , has added CBS shows, and Monday is announcing deals for shows from MGM, Sony, PBS, Endemol USA and ... (more) CBS Tries to Out-Hulu Hulu with TV.com
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This year, call it the Connecting Entertainment Show
GMSV — ... Jr., general manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group, “Our effort with Adobe is poised to accelerate a rich, yet relevant Internet experience on the TV that will provide consumers with access to a growing number of Flash based applications that will ultimately be enjoyed across a number of screens seamlessly, from the laptop to a MID (mobile Internet device) and now the TV.” * And in related news that helps explain all this connectivity activity, tracking outfit comScore reported that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during November , an increase of 34 ...

Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... One way to think about online video is to consider how big a chunk it takes out of our daily lives. The amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year over year. Watchers tuned in for 273.1 minutes of online video in the month of November 2008, up from 195 minutes in November 2007, according to comScore. That’s not the only measure that went up. The number of videos viewed increased 34 percent, to 12.7 billion videos, up from 9.5 billion last November. But the number of video ...

YouTube still rules online video, U.S. viewing time leaps 40%
VentureBeat — ... According to the latest report from comScore Video Metrix, the number of videos viewed by Americans increased by 34 percent over the past year, with 12.7 billion videos viewed in November 2008, up from 9.5 billion the previous November. That means Americans spent a whopping 40 percent more time watching online videos over the course of the year, ...

Internet Video Watching Up by 34%
Podcasting News — ... comScore today released November 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 34 percent versus year ago. ...

Broadband Content Bits: Roku Gets Amazon VOD; Online Video; DECA Shutters Bush League; RipCode
paidContent — ... ) Digital came in third, with 3.5 percent and 2.6 percent of video views, respectively. Hulu retained its sixth place spot, with just 1.8 percent of total video views—though it took the top spot in terms of video duration. The average duration for clips viewed overall was 3 minutes, but users watched clips that were nearly 12 minutes long on Hulu. Release. ...

Web Video Growth Galloping Ahead
Fast Company - Technology — ... comScore just released November data on online video growth.  November saw a +34% vs. year ago growth with 12.7 Billion online video views for the month. While Google and YouTube still have clear leadership, it has dropped to 40%, down significantly from 2/3 of all video viewing just a short time ago. While most of the other players have been around a while, upstart ...

CES 2009 Targets Internet-TV Connectivity
Contentinople: — ... IPTV providers. The network offers a combination of traditional TV programming and online video. Online companies: Yahoo’s Connected TV, a TV-based overlay widget service launched with Intel, has pulled in some high profile support. MySpace will be offering a channel on the service and major manufacturers like Toshiba and Samsung will be manufacturing the TV sets. It’s a great sign that companies across the value chain want to get bridge this gap and drive online video adoption. Recent data from comScore shows that online video viewing in the U.S. was up by 34 percent ...

7 Great Ways to Search For Online Videos
Friedbeef's Tech — ... Internet users in the U.S. watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago.  With that many videos available for viewing, it’s no surprise that search is becoming increasingly important.  Here are 7 different free ways to search and find the most relevant videos. ...

CBS want to create video portal
BloggingStocks — ... The broadcast company may feel that people are willing to go to any number of site to view video. That is probably not true. According to comScore, CBS is not in the top ten video sites visited by consumers. Most of the other big media companies are on the list. That means CBS would have to jump over a number of its competitors to be viable in the online video business. Those competitors are not likely to sit on the sidelines and allow another party into sector. ...

Google Pulls Plug on Video Uploads
Contentinople: — ... Video Metrix report, Google sites had 5.1 billion video views in November, or 40.3 percent of the online video market in the U.S. But YouTube accounted for the lion's share of that viewing, with 98 percent of Google's total views. While changes to the Google Video service was significant, it wasn't the only Google property to feel the heat from the global economic crisis. In an ...

The Great Video SEO Frontier
NewTeeVee — ... page of results. By comparison, there were an average of 4.7 million text pages competing for a place on results pages with an average of just 9.4 text results — giving each text page about a 500,000-to-1 chance of appearing on the first page of results. The simplest reason for this finding is that there are far fewer videos than web pages. But it’s worth considering that U.S. video views have (as expected) surpassed searches — there were 12.7 billion video views in November 2008 and 12.3 billion searches. These ...

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