The Search, Social and Video Trifecta - YouTube Beats Yahoo for 3rd Most Visited Website
YouTube, once just the second largest search engine has now snuck up and tapped Yahoo! on the shoulder, sneaking past them in the latest Internet Top Sites report. Maybe, they got a helping hand by their life partner, Google, who knows. Alexa.com is reporting that YouTube has nudged aside Google rival Yahoo! and taken the ...
Yahoo Steals A Chunk of Google's Search Engine Market Share?
I come from a background in search. I’m a search engine guy first, and a video guy second. It’s just how I’m wired. Which is why ReelSEO is such a great home for me, because I get to write about both. Today, there’s some news about search engines that isn’t specific to video, but its ...
Microsoft, Yahoo!, Hulu To Let Users Choose Video Ads Via Asq
Having video viewers tell you which video ads they want to see, and don't want to see is the new thing. Facebook has been using it for sometime with their own ads and now Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Hulu planning to do the same.
Online Video Impacts Top 50 Web Properties During June 2010
comScore has released the monthly report on who does what, where on the web, commonly referred to as the comScore Media Metrix. The report, as usual, looks at top web properties, ad networks and the changes in the traffic on those properties.
Americans Watched 4.3 Billion Video Ads In June, Mostly On Hulu
comScore recently announced their new Video Metrix 2.0 which adds several enhancements and June 2010 is the first month where we get to see how they affect the numbers.
YouTube Tops 14.5 Billion and Sets Record Says ComScore
It's certainly long in the coming. YouTube, well technically the Google sites, topped 14.6 billion video streams in May according to comScore. Yes, those computators of computationals are back with their latest stats set, this time it's for May 2010. What have they to say?
13 Billion Videos On YouTube for 135.7 Million Viewers In April
My post last month about comScore's metrics got eaten by the ReelSEO gremlins and disappeared into the ether but I'm here again, this time hopefully my insightful commentary won't bend time/space and make the entire article disappear again (which must be what happened last time).
Google Search Accounts for More Than One-Third of All Video Streams
Google searches referred 38.92% of all streams according to new collaborative TubeMogul & Brightcove research. The companies have teamed up to create a new online video index and quarterly research report, which will help identify key industry trends and answer questions about the state of the industry.
Google's New Bing Look for Search Result Pages Goes Live
Google has rolled out to the general public a new design/layout for their results page, and it’s just as much like Bing as it was back when they were testing it back in January (there were rumors at the time that this was rolling out live for everyone, but it appears that a few more ...
YouTube Almost Hit 100 Videos Per Viewer Last Month
comScore has released their March 2010 Video Metrix numbers and one of the most fascinating things is that YouTube viewers are watching, on average, 96 videos in the month. That would be 3.2 videos per day, every day. Also, over 180 million U.S. web surfers watched video and YouTube nabbed over 136M of them, 96%.
Hulu Dances As Viewers Watch 2.4 Hours In February
Dance Hulu dance (and bring your content overseas already, sheesh!) comScore is reporting that for the month of February Hulu viewers watched a hearty 2.4 hours each. But what's that mean for the rest of the industry?
Site Speed Now Affects Your Website’s Rank On Google
For years Google has been telling us how to present our content in a way that helps them understand what our websites are about. Now, they want us to do it faster. On Friday, Google announced something official that many in the SEO community were already expecting: that the search engine will now consider site ...
Video = Fastest Growing Website Feature for Small Businesses
Indeed, small businesses have been racing to get their websites video-capable over the past year - and those same small businesses are spending more on paid search advertising. According to a new report, small business advertisers spent more than twice as much on paid search and nearly 4 times as many of them reported having video on their website vs. ...
Despite A Dip, US Online Video Views Are Up 120% for 2010
comScore starts off another year of online video tracking and so do we. Many have reported on the decline in video views for January 2010 when compared to December 2009. However, even with the decline of 2.5%, when you look at the numbers year over year, video views in the US were actually up almost 120% ...
YouTube Search Accounts for Nearly 28% of All Google Searches
A little over a year ago, comScore's US Search Rankings Report for Dec. 2008 showed that YouTube for the first time, could be thought of as the second largest search engine next to Google with 2,905,000,000 total search queries that month. According to comScore's December 2009 US Search Rankings Report published last week, YouTube searches grew ...
