Topic - Online Video & Yahoo
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.
Can User-Generated Video Work as a Business Model? Interview with Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Wikipedia CEO and Co-Founder Jimmy Wales at the adtech conference and asks: Can consumer-generated media (CGM) work as a monetizeable business model for video like it has for text? What are the challenges with incorporating video into public Wikis? And, can traditional news companies use the wiki model for incorporating CGM video and build back their own news communities, or are the challenges too great? A special report from the ad:tech conference in San Francisco.
Hulu is Growing Faster than YouTube – Online Video Usage Trends For March
According to new research released from Neilsen Online, almost 10 billion (9.6B) video streams were viewed in March of this year by an estimated 130M US web users. This represents almost a 40% (38.8) increase year over year from March 2008 and is an increase of 9% month over month from February 2009. And… there’s more…
Does Truveo Video Search Cover the Planet Better?
Truveo recently did some research which showed they outshine all others in European video search coverage. You might want to take with a grain of salt considering they were doing the research on their own industry and their own service and it might be slightly skewed. Not that we’re saying it is skewed, but it’s not an independent study so…
Youtube Sets New Record with 100 Million Viewers in January
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 4 percent versus December 2008. YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental gain in the number of videos viewed versus December, as it surpassed 100 million viewers for the first time.
Online Video Viewing Up, Search Engines Continue to Dominate
Comscore, one of the leading agencies for Internet audience measurement, recently released its reports on video engagement for the month of July 2008. Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more than 5 billion videos viewed (representing a 44 percent share of the online video market), and also attracted the most viewers (92.1 million), who watched an average of 55 videos per person. YouTube.com accounted for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed in the Google site network, taking over 40 percent of the total online video market – by far the largest share for any single web property.
75 Percent of U.S. Internet Audience Watched Online Video in July
comScore released its July 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that Americans viewed more than 11.4 billion videos for a total duration of 558 million hours during the month.
Online Video Advertising Industry Report For Q3 2008
Online video ad network, LiveRail recently released a complete report of the online video advertising industry titled, “State Of The Industry Report for Q3 2008″. This exhaustive report (below) highlights both the growth of online video advertising as well as the challenges with online video advertising.
According to the report, online video advertising currently only represents 2.36% of all online advertising expenditures. In addition, less than 21% of internet video streams are currently being monetized. As a result of the opportunity, online video ad spending is forecast to grow 55% in 2009 vs 2008 to almost a billion dollars.
CCTV Reaches 100M Uniques With Olympic Video Coverage
The 2008 Olympics was full of big news: The most gold medals ever won by a single person, and, for China, an astounding number of gold medals. However, the news doesn’t stop there! According to WebTrends Analytics, more than 6 million visitors a day were hitting Chinese largest broadcaster site, CCTV.com during the Beijing Olympic Games ushering in what Alex Yoder, CEO of WebTrends calls, “… the coming of age for the Internet in China.” What’s more is that the traffic surpassed that of the leading US Broadcaster, NBC and online channel, Yahoo!.
