consumption Articles

Consumption is a common concept in economics and many other social sciences, and gives rise to derived concepts such as consumer debt. Generally, consumption is defined in part by comparison to production. But the precise definition can vary because different schools of economists define production quite differently. According to mainstream economists, only the final purchase of goods and services by individuals constitutes consumption, while other types of expenditure — in particular, fixe...

Consumer Insights into Online Video for eCommerce Shopping

When I wrote up the first part of this interesting whitepaper from Invodo, (Retail Video Builds Consumer Confidence & Aids in E-Commerce Purchase Decisions) I said I'd be back with part two which looked at the more technical aspects of online video for shopping from ...

New iPad Owners Want More Bandwidth for Mobile Video [The Reel Web #31]

There are more changes happening at YouTube (surprise! surprise!) and this time it revolves around the new embed player, which we've discussed here at ReelSEO previously, and new ways YouTube is integrating it's editing tools directly into your video manager. Also, we look at how the ...

Yahoo! To Distribute Tom Hanks Web Series, Electric City, An Interactive Video Experience

I'm on a plane as I write this, and still working--see how dedicated I am to the cause? Anyway, there's a ton of emails in the inbox already today from CES (which is where I'm headed) and this one caught my eye because it's some ...

Cord Cutting Is Real? 20% Of Consumers Have Cut Cable Or Are Considering

Cord cutting is dead some say. Others think it a passing fad and that there's no staying power. Yet in the annual State of the Media Democracy report, Deloitte reports that some 20% of consumers have or are thinking about it. With the upswell of ...

How To Measure Social ROI With Video: The Orabrush YouTube Marketing Story – Part 3 of 4

In Part 3 of our series on the Orabrush YouTube marketing story, I interviewed Orabrush Spokesperson Austin Craig to talk about how his company measures success with their video marketing strategy through ascribing values to the social activity around those videos – which we refer ...

Kindle Fire Early Adopters Digging Tech-Related Video

Ooyala put out a kickin new infographic I thought I would drop on you as I was just contemplating the other day what the Kindle Fire might do for online video consumption and thought it might, pardon the pun, kindle some renewed viewing.

Ooyala Helps Everyone Be Video Minded With VideoMind Video Index

That might be the most number of uses of the word video in a title by me, ever. The VideoMind Video Index is a quarterly report that will offer everyone an insight into what's going on in the world of video and, I quote,  "an ...

Will Amazon's New Kindle Light A Fire Under Online Video?

The flames are on full blast in the tablet world as Amazon has released their new Kindle, the Android-powered Kindle Fire. Will it set online video alight with its hotness? It seems to already be pulling heat from another major tablet platform, the iPad (and ...

Web Series Viewership Continues To Rise, While Cable TV Drops

Blip.tv and Dynamic Logic got together for some research into web series viewing habits, and did some number crunching to see when where and how people are consuming original web series offered at Blip.tv. It also gleaned some information on how the viewers feel about the ...

Ooyala Reports Viewers Watch Online Video 40% Longer On Tablets

Ooyala, whom I need to speak with about something else and who should email me (yeah, I know it works because I've done it before), put out a pretty rockin new infographic on Friday which talked about video consumption. I just happened to stumble upon ...

New Survey Shows That *GASP* Americans Are Watching More Online Video

Americans are watching online video! Crazy right?! Oh wait, we know that. If we weren't watching so much more, Jeremy probably wouldn't have gotten flamed as much as he did in his anti-Netflix-consumer article... I mean in his article in which he said we needn't be ...

Video Advertising and Mobile Apps – A Match Made in Heaven

Branded video as a monetization medium in online games is a lucrative channel for advertisers looking to achieve better performance. Distributing video through an offer-based payments platform enables brands to not only present targeted content to highly engaged users in an unobtrusive manner but also ...

Consumption Of Nomadic Online Video To Outpace Home & Mobile Users

The NPD Group, who I like for their monthly video game sales charts, have thrown their hat into the online video research arena. They've just released a new report called Broadband Video: On Demand, On the Go, and On the Rise in conjunction with Connected ...

What's The Next Eye-Popping Milestone For YouTube?

YouTube shocked the world last year with the reveal that they were regularly serving up 2 billion video views per day, with over 35 hours of video being uploaded every minute. As stunning as those numbers were at the time, YouTube wasn't shy about setting ...

New DLNA Guideline Could Mean Premium Content On All Connected Devices

DLNA, The Digital Living Network Alliance, is all about getting your content from where it's stored to where you want to watch it. Now, they've teamed up with satellite, cable and telecommunications service providers on the Interoperability Guidelines to leverage DTCP-IP Protected Streaming to make ...