Topic - Online Video & Yahoo

YouTube Continues Search Engine Domination – up 31% YOY

Is anyone still wondering if search is important for video?  In November of last year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo for the first time in total U.S. search queries, making it the 2nd largest search engine in the U.S. next to only its owner, Google.  Ever since then, YouTube has continued to dominate the search space when you look at the total number of search queries.

August Video Watching Online Tops Everything Previous

Another month has come and gone and comScore tells it was the best ever. Better than the previous best month which was the month before the best month ever even though it too was, at the time, the best month ever. Confused? Don’t be, just keep reading.

Google Confirms Meta Keyword Tag is Ignored for Ranking

This may be more straight-SEO news than particularly geared at video, but if you host your own videos or are aiming to rank pages where you’ve embedded a non-hosted video… this will impact your efforts.

Video Search Steals Revenue Out of Your Pocket?

While doing a recent search on Yahoo Video for my favorite advertisement of all time (the Cadbury Eyebrow Dance done by Glass and a Half Full) I found that they’ve implemented a Play Here button. As it’s interesting, I thought I would share with you. But what is more interesting is what it means to you.

July Biggest Month Ever for Online Video, Hulu Tops Time Warner Cable

July was a big month all around for online video (according to comScore) but perhaps it was the biggest month yet for Hulu who, according to various research, surpassed Time Warner in viewership during the month. Could this be the turning point for the cable giant or is it just a fluke due to lack of interesting things to see?

Google Users Are More Loyal & More Active… Probably

New data from ComScore shows that Google users run more searches than Yahoo and Microsoft users… combined.  According to the research, Google users conduct an average of 54.5 searches.  Yahoo users perform 24.5 searches and Microsoft users run 26.9 queries.

More interesting than that, though, are the loyalty numbers.  

Nielsen Ratings Shake Up – Hulu and Blinkx

After months of not a lot of movement going on at the top of the Nielsen reports for video traffic we suddenly get some major shake up and a new contender. The top ten saw some major moves from top to bottom last month which could pave the way for further change. Plus a dark horse that is lurking in the shadows ready to pounce it would seem.

Yahoo Finds Online Video Viewing Peaks, New Engagement Measurements?

Are people watching videos during the day? At Work? Doesn’t everyone? Yahoo commissioned some new research to find out just exactly how consumers interact with online video including where, when and how much…

Microsoft, Yahoo search and You – The Reel Deel

Big news this week from the world of Google haters and would be slayers of the search engine giant as well as for anyone who uses search engines, search advertising or ever has had a need to find something on the web. Microsoft has signed on Yahoo to its search engine service. But what’s that really mean for you and yours?

BrightRoll Makes the List of Lists – Top 10 Video Property

Brightroll has made the list of lists in regards to online video properties according to ComScore. Hurrah! The firm recently announced that ComScore’s Video Metrix has ranked them in the top 10 and is the only ad network to break that line.

Upload Videos To Multiple Video Sharing Sites

So, you’ve got some videos made and you want to get them out there as fast and efficiently as possible. That means you probably want some tools to upload them to multiple video sites automatically right? Right! Here’s some of the coolest tools we found that will help you do just that, and in a hurry.

Now, I didn’t say they’d be free and instead of separating them out pay/free I’m just going to give you a good long list of them. I haven’t played with all of them so I can’t vouch for how cool, fast or stable they are. This is more like an informative piece that you can use as a starting point for research on how to get your videos published online with the quickness.

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.