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comScore May 2013: Video Ads Soar Even Higher, Over 40 Million Videos Watched

An amazing 15 billion ads were viewed last month, taking the total minutes of ads from 5,000 to 6,000. And, the total number of videos watched by Americans eclipsed the 40 million mark. But as has been the story for the last three months, ad frequency is off the charts.

April 2013 comScore: Ads Continue to Explode

comScore released their April Video Metrix and the ad boom continues, as we saw yet another record amount of ads last month. Virtually everything stays the same from March in total videos viewed, unique viewers, and so on.

India is Loving Video Twice As Much Than Before, According to comScore

India doubled the number of videos they watched in March 2013 compared to March 2011. This is due to increased viewership, increased video-watching, and increased time spent watching videos. While it's actually a small percentage of the population, viewership keeps rising at a phenomenal rate.

March 2013 Comscore Ranking: A Record 13.2 Billion Ads Viewed

The March 2013 comScore shows a lot more of the same, with a record amount of ads being watched last month...actually a bonkers amount of ads, blowing away all previous months by a wide margin. And that's likely to continue if the projections for video ads this year are to be believed.

Comscore, Sony's Crackle, Announce Multi-Platform Audience Measuring

comScore and Crackle have teamed together to measure the audience across all devices in which Crackle can be played. Online metrics have been unable to come up with a number that includes devices like connected TVs and video game consoles. comScore and Crackle aim to solve that.

Comscore Releases U.S. Online Video Rankings for February 2013

ComScore has announced their February 2013 U.S. rankings, and while a couple of areas saw all-time highs, in a few categories, some of the lowest numbers we've seen in awhile popped up last month. Some of it can be attributed to the shorter month, some cannot.

Is a YouTube/Vevo Deal Imminent?

In a deal rumoured to be worth around $50m for a 10% shareholder stake, YouTube look set to invest in music distribution group Vevo. Uncertainty has clouded their partnership since December 2012 when both parties failed to reach an agreement regarding their current contract. The ...

2012 Video Metrix Shows Viewing Stagnant, Exploding Video Advertising

Since I went through all the trouble of making a set of cool charts and graphs to track the whole year of comScore's Video Metrix for 2012, I thought I would also take the time to do a bit of post-year analysis. While there were ...

Simultaneous Second Screen Experience Needs to be Open and Standardized

A couple things have come across my desk this week pertaining to almost the same thing. So I let them percolate in my brain for a bit until I was ready to tell you about it. Essentially, it's sending content to a TV and a ...

Online Video Viewers Mostly Steady While Viewing Dips in October

comScore released the Video Metrix late last week but I didn't have time to get it as I was deep in post production on something. From looking at the numbers a lot of people were online watching video last month but it didn't translate into ...

Digital Video Advertising Sees Massive Growth in UK, But Ad Agencies Need More Guidance [Study]

Brightroll did some research over in the UK to see how video advertising is getting on there and it seems that stiff upper lip mentality is working for them as things are really picking up. The second annual survey and report, the 2012 UK Video Advertising ...

Online Video Rebounds to Over 39 Billion Videos and 9.5 Billion Ads, Total Viewers Drop

I'm in LA this week for Streaming Media West and I haven't got my spreadsheets with me for the month to month numbers I've been keeping. I'll get them input when I get back to Milwaukee, if the 13,000 canceled flights don't stop me from ...

Online Video Viewing in Latin America is Evolving, Rápidamente!

comScore just put out some numbers for Latin America in regards to online video. I figured it's entirely possible that some of our readers have interest in the region and so I compiled a couple releases to take a look at how online video viewing ...