YouTube Dominates Online Video Views – 30.3 billion clips, on average 4.4 minutes long seen in April

Although Google’s purchase of YouTube hasn’t paid of financially, it has clearly made Google a giant in the world of online video, displaying more than 13 billion videos during the month of April. On Tuesday, comScore, which monitors online usages of e-commerce, advertising and video, released its April data of video usage on the Internet. According to a company press release, 178 million United States Internet users, or 83.5 percent of the total American Internet audience, watched some form of video online during April. YouTube dwarfed other competitors, dominating the attention of 135 million Web surfers, who watched more than 13 billion videos on the service. Hulu, which offers videos from mainstream media outlets, including ABC, Fox and NBC, was a distant second streaming 958 million views during the same period. Other online video outlets included Microsoft, which offers video through it’s Zune network, showed 644 million online videos, and Viacom, which owns the MTV network, showed 384 million video views. ComScore also said that all the video viewed online during the month added up to 30.3 billion clips. The average length of these videos was a relatively short 4.4 minutes long, which comes to an astounding 253,652 years of video.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/youtube-dominates-online-video-views/

Wikipedia, iPhone among decade’s Top 10 Internet moments

The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards. Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which has presented the annual Webby awards since 1996, were the Iranian election in 2009 when protests demonstrated the power of Twitter and other social network in reshaping democracy. Here is the Webby’s list of the 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade: 1. Craigslist, the free classifieds site, expands outside San Francisco in 2000, impacting newspaper publishers everywhere; 2. Google AdWords launched in 2000 allowing advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precision; 3. Wikipedia, the free open-source encyclopedia, launches in 2001 and today boasts more than 14 million articles in 271 different languages and bringing strangers together on projects; 4. Napster shutdown in 2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates; 5. Google’s IPO in 2004 put the search engine on the path to powering countless aspects of our everyday lives; 6. Online video revolution in 2006 that led to a boom in homemade and professional content on the Internet and helped reshape everything from pop culture to politics; 7. Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off in 2006; 8. The iPhone debuts in 2007 and smartphones go from a luxury item to a necessity with an app for just about every aspect of modern life; 9. U.S. presidential campaign in 2008 in which the Internet changed every facet of the way campaigns are run; 10. Iranian election protests in 2009 when Twitter proved vital in organizing demonstrations and as a protest too

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5AI3O720091119

Facebook becomes third most popular video site

YouTube might still reign supreme in online video, but the big surprise coming out of Nielsen’s VideoCensus release on Thursday is that Facebook is now the world’s third most popular place to view video online. According to Nielsen’s latest VideoCensus numbers, which look at the number of video views in October, YouTube serviced over 6.6 billion streams. In a distant second, Hulu offered up over 632 million video streams. But it was Facebook with over 217 million streams in October that easily beat out Bing, Yahoo, and several other online sites. In September, Facebook was ranked tenth in total streams. In October, Facebook placed second in total number of unique viewers: over 31.5 million. YouTube had almost 106 million unique viewers during October. Hulu placed fifth with 13.4 million viewers. According to Nielsen, the amount of time Web users spent viewing videos on social-networking sites increased 98 percent year over year. In October 2008, users watched 503.8 million minutes of video; they watched 999.4 million video minutes in October this year. That growth far outpaced growth in number of online video streams as a whole, which grew 26 percent year over year.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10401834-2.html