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Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.
A statistician is someone who is particularly well versed in the ways of thinking necessary for the successful application of statistical analysis. Such people have often gained this experience through working in any of a wide number of fields. There is ...

A List of YouTube Stats Tracking Tools You Should Know About

Google Analytics is a great tool to figure out the activity surrounding your channel, where you might need improvement, getting the most out of advertising, mobile views, etc.  But maybe you'd like a different opinion.  Maybe you don't like the way the stats are displayed.  ...

How to Leverage YouTube Statistics Tracking Tools: Interview with Socialblade [Creator's Tip #42]

For this week's Creator's Tip we're going to be taking a look at how third-party statistics tracking & measurement tools for YouTube can help you improve your content and marketing strategies. We interviewed Jason Urgo, who runs socialblade.com, a free tool for tracking YouTube stats. Jason offers ...

E3, Live Streaming Gamers, YouTube Playlists, Vimeo Music, and More [The Reel Web #42]

This week on The Reel Web, we take a look at some new statistics for online video viewing which show a drastic change in consumption of long-form video. We also discuss changes Youtube is making to its playlists and embeds, recent enhancements by Vimeo to ...

Youtube Account Purges Complete, FCC May Boost Web Video, and Philip DeFranco [Reel Web #41]

This week on the Reel Web we are going to take a look at Youtube users' complaints regarding the alleged loss of active subscribers, due to Youtube's "spring cleaning" of inactive accounts. We will also discuss the FCC, and their consideration of adding online "channels" ...

YouTube's Mad Tinkering Equals A Loss Of Views? What Exactly Is Going On?

For those of you who don't know: YouTube is like those people you know who are always doing something to their house.  They can't just live in the house and be happy, they have to change the floors, or redecorate, or add a room.  And ...

YouTube Statistics 2012: A Year Later - More Jawdropping Growth

Last year, we took a look at some amazing YouTube statistics.  And now, we can see that over the past year, those amazing statistics from last year look awfully small compared to what YouTube is doing now.  In general, we know that 800 million people ...

Online Video Advertising Immune to Seasonal Fluctuations? [Research]

Another interesting piece of the Recent FreeWheel Video Monetization Report for Q1 2012 was the number of ads viewed in the quarter. Generally, after the major shopping season (read the holidays) winds down a lot of industries will move toward a slump of inactivity. But ...

The Rise of Mid-Roll Means Good Things for Video Advertising

I was just perusing a report from FreeWheel that pertains to online video monetization for Q1 2012 and there were some surprising things in it. For example, mid-roll video ad placements are on the rise, but mostly due to more long form video content being ...

Engagement, Not Views, is Driving Today's YouTube

We all are a bit guilty of checking out a video's view count and using it as its one and only metric for success.  Although more critical thinking has made view counts less important, it's still the easiest way to judge a video's success.  But ...

Internet and Mobile Video Up, TV Down Says Nielsen [Infographic]

I stumbled upon a pretty cool infographic from Nielsen I thought I would share. It takes a look at media consumption on each screen for the past few quarters. There's nothing alarming here, TV took a small dip and in 2011 vs 2010 and other ...

Teens Embrace All Facets of Online Video from Creation to Consumption

Teens are a key demographic for a lot of brands and companies, so understanding what they are doing is vital to getting into their heads. Turns out, according to new research from Pew Internet, what they're doing, is video based.

Video Ad Impressions Reach Record Numbers in March 2012

Toot the tooters and clink the clinkers, honk the honkers and hoot the hooters, it's comScore video metrix time again. OK, maybe skip the hooters. Did you know that 181 million Americans watched video online in March? Did you know that online video advertising impressions ...

US Marketers See Big Opportunity for Online Video Advertising in Europe

comScore's recently published statistics for online video viewing and video ad exposure in the Europe reveals the biggest growth lies in video ad consumption in the UK  - 80% of online Brits saw an online video in January 2012: and of these 64 percent were ...

Read It Later Says More Internet Users Saving Videos to Watch Later: Like DVR for the Internet

Read it later is an online app that basically lets users save articles and other content online to "read it later". However, it turns out, many of their users aren't doing any reading, except perhaps for subtitles and annotations, because they've been saving videos for ...

YouTube's Related Videos Algorithm Now Influenced by Viewer Engagement - The Reel Web #30

So many changes to keep up with at YouTube lately, but don't worry -- we got you covered! This week on The Reel Web we summarize a lot of the changes happening at YouTube, including the algorithm changes to how related and recommended videos are ...