The latest comScore numbers show a 3% gain in online video views in February at 10,089,048, despite that month being two days short. Note that comScore just counts streams and progressive downloads. Ten billion doesn’t even count torrents and direct downloads.
Other interesting tidbits:
* 72.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
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Now here’s an unusual video contest challenge: make small talk with five strangers while wearing something out of the ordinary. The challenge comes from top dating coach Neil “Style” Strauss, and the best video wins a free one-on-one consultation. Just to demonstrate, here’s a guy picking up girls with a dildo strapped to his forehead. […]
MySpace claims to be making the first user-generated feature film. Bullshit.
For a movie being billed as the first user-generated feature film, “users” have little to do with the production of Faintheart. The lead roles will be played by professional actors, while the script was already written and was first developed by the independent production company […]
Neilsen//Netratings has released August numbers showing that, while YouTube’s monthly traffic is up 66% from last year at 56 million uniques (no surprise there), smaller players are growing faster. Yahoo Video saw a 101% rise in monthly traffic over the year, while Veoh is up a whopping 346%.
MySpaceTV, meanwhile, is down 6%. Even though they […]
True to its nature as a Big Media puppet, MySpace brags about digital fingerprinting to prevent infringing videos from being uploaded again after being taken down. True to Fox redneck machismo, they’re calling it Take Down Stay Down!
Hah. I foresee all sorts of problems with this preemptive DRM, not the least of which are blocked […]
Remember when Photobucket kept churning out video features to catch up to YouTube — conversion, hosting, embeds, editing?
Well, those days are over. The dumbest bastion of closed corporatism on the Internet, MySpace, is buying Photobucket. It’s a sad story, really: MySpace blocked Photobucket videos to lower the purchase price.
Kickthebucket is about to degenerate from […]
A look at the fast rising online video industry
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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