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Demographics are current statistical characteristics of a population. These types of data are used widely in sociology (and especially in the subfield of demography), public policy, and marketing. Commonly examined demographics include gender, race, age, disabilities, mobility, home ownership, employment status, and even location. Demographic trends describe the historical changes in demographics in a population over time (for example, the average age of a population may increase or decrease ...

Nielsen Gives UK Cool Video Metrics Tools The US Has Had For Years

Almost four years ago, the US got the Video Census from Nielsen and NetRatings. Now, finally, the UK is getting it as well. I'm amazed it took so long because really, they spend a lot of time prone in front of video screens and I ...

Going Beyond SEO: Using Relevant Video Advertising to Increase Video Monetization

You already know how important SEO is for helping viewers find your video. Beyond the satisfaction of reaching a larger audience and raising your site's profile, the increased traffic that effective SEO brings can help you command higher CPMs for your ad inventory.

25 Jawdropping YouTube Video Facts, Figures, & Statistics

One of the best ways for a popular website to crow about its successes is the use of statistics. This is even more true with the world of video, which is ruled by things like view counts, comments, subscriptions, and ratings. We've all heard some ...

How do Teenagers Perceive Online Video?

Every year I run a survey of my blog readers that really helps me get to know my audience and shapes the direction I go with content, distribution, communication methods, and more. As I was reading through the survey results, I kept seeing a reoccurring ...

The Weekly Online Video News Reel - April Fools Edition

If you fell for the ReelSEO April Fool's Day prank I just have one thing to say: Haha! Suckers! If not, we'll try harder next year. That was a sort of spur of the moment one but I've got a great idea for next year. ...

Time-Shifting TV Usage Rises in Second Half of 2010: Nielsen

Nielsen reported on TV usage for the second half of 2010 and found that Americans watched drastically more time-shifted television than before. Of the 154 hours of TV consumption a month, up to 30 hours a month were time-shifted. That's roughly 25% of some demographics' ...

Online Video Bolsters Television Ad Campaign Performance Says YuMe

YuMe took a wide range of data including Nielsen TV/Internet Data Fusion, which integrates Nielsen's National People Meter Panel with the Nielsen Netview panel to obtain a clear picture of cross-platform reach, along with the following: Nielsen National Television Ratings, Nielsen Monitor-Plus, and Nielsen IMS ...

With Branded Social Video Content, Shorter Is Better

Everyone's looking for ways to take their video and make it more social.  No one is after traditional views anymore--haven't you heard? Social views are where it's at. A viewer is just that... someone who views. A social viewer, however, is someone who views your ...

Finding Your Audience with Heat-Seeking Online Video Marketing Missiles

Audiences are becoming increasingly fragmented in the ways they find and experience entertainment content and related marketing messages, which can be frustrating for the brands, businesses marketers and advertisers that are trying to reach them. There is indecision and hesitancy about where to best spend ...

Digital Media Is Trouncing Traditional Media Among Generation Y Consumers

MediaPost writes today, summarizing a study from L2, that Generation Y is more prone to connect to brands digitally than any previous generation before it.  And while that may not be a surprise--gee, young people are more into social and digital media than older people, ...

How Women Connect and Engage With Online Video - Nielsen Research

Nielsen did some research recently and had a webinar about how women are connecting with online video. I wasn't able to get into that webinar but I was able to download the video. I thought it curious that there would be such a massive difference ...

Online Video Moves: iAd Goes International, Youngsters Lead WebTV Revolution, Beyonce Banned

Ha ha suckers! We get iAd here...no wait, why is that cool? More ads is not what I need in my life. Steve Jobs announced that the UK and France will get iAd in December and then Ze Germans will get it in January. Whew, ...

Kantar Videolytics - Track, Syndicate, Optimize - An In-depth Review

Kantar Videolytics recently trotted out a long list of premier partners which included some of the major players in online video (Brightcove, Brightroll, Adap.tv, LiveRail, Tremor, ScanScout, you get the picture) for their new Videolytics (video analytics) offering. So what better reason to get on ...

Intelligent Video Recommendations Provide Massive Boost to Viewing at NYT

The New York Times and Taboola teamed up to do some A/B testing and find out which system for intelligent video content recommendations worked best. Taboola pitted its "secret sauce" algorithms for choosing the best possible videos for viewers versus a standard "other popular in ...

Young Adults Thumb Nose At Broadcast Television, Choose Digital

The digital divide continues to grow as the all important 18-34-year-old demographic continues to move away from standard broadcast television in favor of online and time-shifted video, says a new report from market researcher Morpace. How much? Just over 40% of their viewing time is ...