Tag archive: online video

Good bye traditional video. According to a new study, viewers are watching more videos online, and at the same time, are increasingly engaged in the content they watch. It's not just desktop viewing either—video plays on tablets, gaming consoles and connected TVs have nearly doubled since quarter three of last year. At least that's what online video provider Ooyala is asserting, based on the data from its video platform. The provider… Read More

Google's ubiquitous video-sharing service YouTube currently serves more than 4 billion video views every day, the company told Reuters. This is a 25 percent increase over the past eight months, according to Google. Google attributes the boost to an increase in distribution avenues, like smartphones and tablets. Approximately 60 hours of video is now being uploaded to YouTube every minute, a jump from the 48 hours of video that users… Read More

Received in early October 2011, Celina Aarons of Florida was ”crying and shaking” after ripping open her 43-page T-Mobile bill for the month that totaled over $200,000 in wireless charges. While Aarons wasn't directly responsible for racking up the charges, she did authorize one of her brothers to use the account during a vacation to Canada. The brother, Shamir, is legally deaf and communicates entirely through text messaging.… Read More

Following news yesterday of Google’s rumored investment in new professional-grade programming, Yahoo has announced a revamp of its video service. It’s called Yahoo Screen and pulls together the thousands of licensed premium video clips spread about Yahoo’s vast network. At present it’s only available on laptops and desktops though there are plans to bring it to mobile devices too. According to The Wrap, the new service will also include “such… Read More

When you spend as much time online as we do, you think that every person who goes on the Internet watches online videos, at one point or another. Surprisingly, that's just not true. According to a newly released study from Pew Research, 71 percent of web surfers use video sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. That's up from last year's staggeringly low total of 66 percent, and 33 percent in 2006, the first year Pew polled such… Read More

Online analytics tracker comScore announced the results of its May online video rankings, which shows that YouTube remains the undisputed king of the online video realm. The Google-owned online video giant led all of Google's video sites to help bring in a whopping 147.2 million unique visitors during the month of May. According to comScore's count, the total US Internet audience is 176.3 million. So, in other words, nearly every… Read More

There’s a camera included on just about electronic device these days, so we’re not sure who exactly doesn’t have access to one. But if you don’t and want to upload (mostly) self-created content to YouTube, the site is offering users some new tools. GoAnimate, Stupeflix Video Maker, and Xtranormal Movie Maker are all now integrated into YouTube and you need nothing more than a Google account to use the programs.  These are pre-existing apps that… Read More

This post is not a video, but if it were, you'd probably watch it. 180 million people watch video online each month in the United States, representing about 85 percent of the Internet population. And they don't watch one video. The average video watcher consumes 200 videos a month, totaling 13 hours, leading Dan Piech, senior product management analyst at ComScore to call the market “established and mature,” reports… Read More

Online video service Netflix is expanding its streaming library with a slate of television shows from ABC, ABC Family, and the Disney Channel, adding things like Greek and The Secret Life of the American Teenager to its lineup for the first time. The deal also enables Netflix to offer every episode of Lost to die-hard fans (and those they are still trying to recruit), along with shows like Ugly Betty, Scrubs, and Pair of Kings. “TV… Read More

YouTube revisits live video streaming for masses with a live-stream test today and tomorrow. Starting at 8 a.m. Pacific Time, Live on YouTube will stream live entertainment programming from four online media partners. No stranger to live video, YouTube has experimented with live streaming over the years on a case-by-case basis. It first  tested the live video streaming waters back in 2008 with YouTube Live — “part concert, part… Read More

Fresh from being cut loose from Time Warner, AOL has just announced a $36.5 million deal to buy online video platform StudioNow. AOL says the deal is all about integrating a “fully functional” video creation platform into its Seed.com content management system. Seed.com is AOL's just-launched content management platform; AOL uses it for interacting with freelancers and anyone who wants to get their content into AOL's… Read More

Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court. The executives are being tried in absentia in Milan — a case that has been painted as a battle for privacy rights by the prosecution and a threat to freedom of expression by Google. Prosecutors have asked for sentences ranging from six months to one year in… Read More

JupiterResearch today announced in its newly released report, “Video on Cell Phones: It's Real in 2005, but a Paying Consumer Audience Isn't”, that 44% of online consumers surveyed by JupiterResearch are interested in viewing video on their cell phones for free, but only 19% indicate they would be willing to pay anything for those services. Wireless carriers in the U.S. have launched mobile video applications… Read More