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In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths,
making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services,
available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to
move forward on this strategy in 2007, with a focus on growing the size
of its online audience, increasing the engagement of its users and
improving its ability to monetize its Web audience.

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Yahoo Steals A Chunk of Google's Search Engine Market Share?

I come from a background in search. I'm a search engine guy first, and a video guy second. It's just how I'm wired. Which is why ReelSEO is such a great home for me, because I get to write about both. Today, there's some news ...

Microsoft, Yahoo!, Hulu To Let Users Choose Video Ads Via Asq

Having video viewers tell you which video ads they want to see, and don't want to see is the new thing. Facebook has been using it for sometime with their own ads and now Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Hulu planning to do the same.

13 Billion Videos On YouTube for 135.7 Million Viewers In April

My post last month about comScore's metrics got eaten by the ReelSEO gremlins and disappeared into the ether but I'm here again, this time hopefully my insightful commentary won't bend time/space and make the entire article disappear again (which must be what happened last time).

YouTube Almost Hit 100 Videos Per Viewer Last Month

comScore has released their March 2010 Video Metrix numbers and one of the most fascinating things is that YouTube viewers are watching, on average, 96 videos in the month. That would be 3.2 videos per day, every day. Also, over 180 million U.S. web surfers ...

Hulu Dances As Viewers Watch 2.4 Hours In February

Dance Hulu dance (and bring your content overseas already, sheesh!) comScore is reporting that for the month of February Hulu viewers watched a hearty 2.4 hours each. But what's that mean for the rest of the industry?

Despite A Dip, US Online Video Views Are Up 120% for 2010

comScore starts off another year of online video tracking and so do we. Many have reported on the decline in video views for January 2010 when compared to December 2009. However, even with the decline of 2.5%, when you look at the numbers year over ...

Video Ad Networks - Where Should You Place Your Video Ads?

2009 was a massive year for the online video advertising industry as a whole. But some ad networks did far better than others. I've compiled the statistics for the last third of 2009 and have some ideas on where you should place your video advertisements ...

AOL Snatches Up Online Video Provider StudioNow for $36.5M

AOL has purchased video production company StudioNow Inc for $36.5 million. We wrote about StudioNow back in the Fall of 2008, when they had just signed a deal to develop videos for CitySearch. This merger/purchase is newsworthy because of the technology that StudioNow had created--as ...

YouTube Search Accounts for Nearly 28% of All Google Searches

A little over a year ago, comScore's US Search Rankings Report for Dec. 2008 showed that YouTube for the first time, could be thought of as the second largest search engine next to Google with 2,905,000,000 total search queries that month. According to comScore's December 2009 ...

Microsoft Bing Video Search - A Quick Overview

Microsoft has launched their new Google competitor, bing, complete with video search and everything. The thing is, I don't know what all the hype is about. People are talking about it like it's going to be some actual competition to Google and from what I ...

Google Runs The Roost, Hulu Flying High

ComScore has released their latest numbers for theirr Video Metrix and while it's no surprise that Google still has a commanding lead, there are others, like Hulu, that are rising fast. While each of 150 million Internet users each watched roughly 100 videos in March ...

Youtube Sets Record With 100 Million Viewers In January

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 4 percent versus December 2008. YouTube led the growth ...

The President’s Weekly Address Video Is Search Engine Optimized

Ok, so he isn't President just yet, but that hasn't stopped US president-elect Barack Obama from starting change already. Obama has changed the Democrats' national weekly address and has released it as an online video, search engine optimized and all. It seems that either Obama's ...

New Truveo Mobile Video Search Site Launched In Beta

AOL has just announced the launch of a beta version of Truveo mobile video search. In addition to the already released iPhone application, users with other mobile devices will have a chance as well to search Truveo's vast online video index via WAP (Wireless Application ...