YouTube 2nd Most Popular Website With 790 Million Unique Monthly Visitors
According to just-released June 2011 data from Google, Facebook is still the world's most popular website, with 870 million unique visitors and a whopping 1 trillion pageviews per month. Right behind Facebook--in terms of unique visitors, at least--is YouTube, with 790 million visitors per month and 100 billion pageviews.
AOL HD Pushing Media to Connected Devices and TVs for Higher Brand Engagement
AOL HD is continuing its march into your living room with its latest announcement that it will start pushing content to connected boxes. Now that doesn't mean that everything will instantly have an AOL video button or app, but so far, they are targeting the major players in the Internet TV device market.
Hulu Sales Sands Shifting, Microsoft Out, Apple Stepping In?
Microsoft has bowed out stating they would not enter into the second round of bidding for Hulu. Apparently, they didn't like what they saw and chose not to whip out a cool $2B for the video service. Meanwhile, Yahoo! has upped the stakes and Apple is ready to step in? Here's the latest on the ...
Microsoft's Hotmail First Major Web Mail Client to Support HTML5 Video in Email
We are happy to be the first to report that Microsoft now appears to be supporting HTML5 video emails in their Hotmail web client (provided what we're seeing isn't part of some beta test). The Hotmail web mail client displays HTML5 video in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9. IE8, which does not support HTML5, still can ...
Despite Summer`s Arrival, 178 Million Watch an Average 16.8 Hours of Online Video in June
Hi everyone, hope your summer is going well. I know, it's a non-standard way to start an article talking about statistics, but I wanted to get off on the right foot. Also in that vein, I wanted to give you some information that I've received from comScore about their Video Metrix numbers, to sort of ...
Google Plus Has One Huge Glaring Oversight: YouTube Integration
Google Plus has certainly received plenty of praise from me. Maybe I was getting bored with Facebook. Or maybe Google Plus has some really cool features and attributes that I like a lot. Most likely, it's a bit of both. But despite everything I love about Google Plus, there's one glaring oversight to the service ...
Q&A Service Quora Adds YouTube Video Embeds
Q&A services are all the rage right now, with sites like Quora and formspring adding tons of new users and piling up the archives of content. And now Quora is taking a huge leap forward in engaging content by adding the ability to embed YouTube videos inside of their Q&A pages.
Hulu + Zune = Microsoft`s Subcription Streaming Online Video Plan?
I just wrote a piece over at Gamers Daily News talking about how, if Microsoft were to pick up Hulu (and they are listed alongside Google & Yahoo as potential buyers) they could roll it into a new, higher level, higher priced, Xbox LIVE subscription. I also just read something that says MS is looking ...
Prime Time & Long-Form Online Video Is Up, Says Yahoo! Research
So the holiday weekend is over, we're all climbing out of food comas, lathering up skin lotion from too much sun and generally getting back into the groove. We're still free, we partied like it and now we've all got to pay. Luckily, I refrained from too much and so am actually in better shape ...
Google In Talks To Acquire Hulu? Microsoft & Yahoo Too?
Why does there always seem to be so much online video news coming out on Fridays? Christophor wrote this morning about the potential sale of Hulu: who the interested parties might be, and why they might want to buy the video property. Rumors have been swirling about potential buyers since it became public that Hulu ...
Is Hulu Worth Purchasing & Who Are The Suitors? You Make the Call
I will give you all the information available at present. You decide if it is a sweet deal or a sour lemon. Deal? Alright, if you've just come out of a binge-induced coma and don't know what the heck I'm talking about, Hulu has dropped their IPO thoughts and moved on to thinking about selling ...
Time Warner & Netflix Sued For Not Providing Captions On All Video Streams
I have some pretty strong opinions about online video captions--in short, I think every video creator should be using them, and for a variety of reasons. I'm actually working on an entire article about that subject, but couldn't ignore the news announcement over the weekend that Netflix and Time Warner have both been sued (in ...
May 2011 Nielsen vs. ComScore Online Video Numbers
It's time once again to take a look at the previous month's online video viewing numbers and statistics. This time, I waited until I got them from both the two major statistics firms, comScore and Nielsen, before writing anything up. It gives a clearer picture when you're able to compare the two. Not at all ...
Yahoo! Buys IntoNow, Getting Into Interactive TV or Back Into Online Video?
Just last week I wrote about IntoNow's tech and how it's being used by Pepsi and said that it could be a sort of stepping stone to bring the masses to the interactivity of Internet TV. Yahoo! must have read my article because this week, they bought the company. So does that mean, after some ...
Online Video Springs Back in March, 174M Viewers Watch 889 Minutes on Average
After the February fizzle in online video, March has seen the industry spring back to life with 174 million Americans raining down upon online video sites and viewing sessions blossoming to 5.7B while average viewing time saw a growth spurt to 889.1 minutes. Ahhh...spring is in the air, Play Ball!
