Video

Online Video Viewership Grows as CPM Rates Could Decline
ABI Research, a market research firm, recently noted that the number of people watching online video by way of a Web browser nearly doubled from last year's figure. More...

IMDB Adds Video
On Monday, IMDB.com added video content to its movie database Web site. The Amazon-owned online destination will offer over 6,000 videos, including movies and television shows, at no cost to users. More...

YouTube Mobile Sees Ads
While the traditional YouTube site hasnâ€™t exactly reached monster status in its advertising rakes, Google seems to think itâ€™s about time to dip their toes into the water in the mobile advertising realm for its wildly popular online video site. More...

Pre-Roll Video Ads Get Good Responses
A recent study conducted by Break Media in conjunction with advertising technology provider Panache shows that pre-roll and overlay video ads shown online are engaging viewers quite well. More...

TV Still Going Strong
While online and mobile video consumption is on the rise, traditional TV viewing seems to be unhindered by their counterparts’ growth, according to Nielsen Online More...

Hulu Cracks Top Online Video Properties List
Google (thanks mostly to YouTube) and, to a lesser extent, Fox Interactive Media have been the two dominant forces in online video in recent memory More...

2013: More Than One Billion Online Video Viewers
A recent report released by ABI Research expects the number of viewers who watch videos on the Web to reach at least one billion in 2013, which would entail the current population of online video viewers to nearly quadruple. More...

Google Sites Still Dominates Online Video
Google's dominance in online video seems to be as sure as its dominance in the search realm, if not more so. More...

Obama Wins in Online Video
According to recent figures released by Nielsen Online, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has a healthy lead in the battle taking place in the realm of online video. More...

Google Leads Online Video Market
According to the most recent figures released by comScore Video Metrix, more than 10 billion online videos were viewed in the U.S. during February 2008, a 3% increase compared to January. More...

Online Video Cools Off in January
The latest figures released by the comScore Video Metrix service shows that while online video in general cooled off in January from its record setting December numbers, Google video sites still held onto its commanding lead in the U.S. market. More...

The Future of Online Video Advertising - CPA
With the advent of companies offering video advertising, how do you determine one company from the next? If you are a Direct Response (DR) advertiser they seem to be all the same. More...

YouTube Upgrading to Higher Resolution
While other video sharing sites, including Vimeo, Dailymotion, and the recently shuttered Stage6, have offered high quality videos, YouTube has not made any visible headway towards that end until recently. The popular online video destination was recently found to be tinkering with the quality of some of its videos. More...

The Writer's Strike... Out?
Last week, amid the hubbub over Microsoft wanting to take out Yahoo while Yahoo looked for another date to the prom, the strike between members of the Screen Actors Guild and the studios officially ended with... More...

Google Search Results With a Side of Video Ads
As search results are incorporating more images and videos, it seems logical enough that the same should happen for those text ads that appear beside these results. Google has begun testing this notion this week, though not many users will notice it. More...

Writer’s Strike Helps Record Month for Online Video
The silver lining to the cloud that the recent writer’s strike has cast upon Hollywood might be the surging consumption of online video content. More...

Podcasts Get Sexier
Recent estimates made by eMarketer peg the U.S. podcasting audience at 18.5 million in 2007. This number is expected to grow to 28.0 million in 2008, 38.0 million in 2009, 47.0 million in 2010, 56.0 million in 2011, and 65.0 million in 2012. More...

YouTube = Yawn, Google = Frown in Korea
While YouTube remains popular in the U.S. and in various markets across the globe, it has been met with tepid responses from users in South Korea More...

Google Sites Continue Lead in Online Video
Recent figures released by comScore Video Metrix show that Google Sites pumped up its online video market share to 31.3% in November, an increase of more than two percent from October. Almost 3 billion videos were viewed on... More...

Online Video Killed the TV Star
I like TV, more than someone in the Internet age probably should, and if I admit to how little video content I consume while sitting in front of an Internet enabled device, well, we won't go there. Let's just say there are... More...

Online Video Matures
According to a recent study conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the number of U.S. online users who watch videos online increased 45% from late 2006 to late 2007. In 2006, about 33% of Web users said they visited a video sharing site, compared to 48% who said the same in late 2007. More...

Online TV Viewers Are More Attentive
A recent study conducted by Simmons, a division of Experian Research Services, indicates that consumers who watch television content online are more attentive than their traditional TV set counterparts. More...

More Phishing Attacks in 2007
Phishing attacks in the U.S. cost unknowing victims $3.2 billion in 2007. For the year ending August 2007, 3.6 million adults in the U.S. lost money because of these attacks, More...

Professional Content Still King
Adults in the U.S. watch more professionally-produced television programming than they do user-generated videos on “alternative devices”, which includes computers, mobile devices, and digital media players. More...

When Writers Strike
If asked to name a union, I imagine many would gravitate towards one of the larger, albeit waining ones, the United Auto Workers. Name the last time that they went on strike, and unless you actively follow or have some... More...

Online TV Video Content Enhances Experience
According to a recent report released by Horowitz Associates, 61% of high-speed Internet users watch or download online video content at least once a week, while 86% do so once every month. Last year, these numbers were 45% and 71%, respectively. More...

Facebook: Another Privacy Issue
It was a little over a year ago when Facebook faced loud criticism for the unveiling of its News Feed feature. After a public apology and a few tweaks, the News Feed remains and is a convenient feature for many users. More...

YouTube Still Online Video King
According to the most recent comScore Video Metrix report for September 2007, Google Sites (which includes YouTube) remains the king of the online video hill, both in terms of the number of videos viewed and in terms of unique video viewers. More...

Hulu Finally Creeps Out of the Shadows
NBC and News Corporation have been talking for months about a joint venture into the realm of online video. More...

Online Video Watchers Are Viral
According to recent numbers released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, nearly one in five Americans watch online videos on any given day. Their activity does not stop with viewing, however. Many of them forward their... More...

Dailymotion.com: The Next YouTube?
Though YouTube has become almost synonymous with all things online video-related, there seems to be a number of video-sharing sites that see a window of opportunity. After all, with the growing utilization of online ads... More...

Blinkx Unveils Cutting Edge Ad Platform
Blinkx, the growing video search engine, recently launched an ad platform, AdHoc, that would place ads beside or in videos based on what it "hears" in them. This speech-recognition technology is the first of its kind in the video... More...

Hooray for Online Video Ads
According to a report titled "Frames of Reference: Online Video Advertising, Content and Consumer Behavior," online video ads seem to be making good on its promise of good returns. More...

TV Viewing Elsewhere
It seems like most consumers are keen on the idea of watching online content on their television sets, though there are still a lot of people out there who are unaware that this is actually possible now, and the cost of such luxury is very... More...

Nielsen//NetRatings Introduces VideoCensus
Internet media and market research firm Nielsen//NetRatings introduced its new online video measurement service, which is dubbed VideoCensus. Besides confirming Nielsen’s love of making one word out of two, this is an... More...

Online Video Junkies Dubbed “Streamies”
Knowledge Networks/SRI has come up with a cute name for online users who frequently stream videos and audio during their time on the Web: "streamies." Thoughts on the nickname aside, the fact that anyone has deemed this... More...

Online Video Viewers Are Mature
Most people would expect younger Internet users to make up the majority of the online video viewing audience, and most people would be wrong. Recent figures point to an online video audience that has an average age of a little... More...

Online Video Viewed More by Males
In 2007, the online audience in the U.S. will be made up of 97 million females and 91 million males. This female-dominated ratio does not hold, however, for the total online video audience. More...

Display Ads Still More Important Than Online Video
Advertising through online video may be the hot topic these days, but that doesn’t mean that more traditional means of reaching consumers like display ads are dying off. In fact, recent numbers from Datran Media indicate that... More...

Microsoft Challenges YouTube with Soapbox
In yet another catch-up attempt, Microsoft unveiled its online video upload site called Soapbox to the general public in a beta release. More...

YouTube Will Share the Wealth
In a mildly surprising statement over the weekend, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley indicated that the video sharing site would begin to share revenues produced by its videos with their creators “in the coming months.” More...

BBC and Google Get More Comfortable
When unlicensed videos appear on a big online video site, the word "lawsuit" usually comes to mind. But in the case of the BBC and Google Video, the ending looks to be a lot happier, and a lot less legally sticky. More...

Heavy.com Gets Fifth Round of Funding
Just as Google’s dominance has failed to end the spawning of more search engines, the fairytale that is YouTube has not discouraged other video sites from pursuing greatness in their own, smaller-scale forms. More...

YouTube Sees Sky and Big Competition on the Horizon
Sky Broadcasting, based in Britain, struck a deal recently with Google to provide its broadband users a Sky-branded package of Google’s search, advertising, communications, and video products. More...

Online Video: Show me the money
In what feels like a long time ago but was only in October, we wrote that many advertisers have already jumped on the video bandwagon but that not all of the dollars available have yet to find a home. Even people who don’t necessarily... More...