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A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. While each of 150 million Internet users each watched roughly 100 videos in March ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Youtube Sets 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 ...

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 ...

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. Google Sites Maintains Dominant Position - In July, Google Sites once again ranked ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yahoo Gives Up On Search Video Ads, Google and Others Still Experimenting

During the Q&A portion of the adtech Chicago session, The State of Online Video: Going Beyond the Pre-Roll, I asked panelist Rebecca Paoletti, Director of Video Strategy for Yahoo!, if her company was planning to roll out video ads in universal search results. Her response ...