Posts Tagged ‘ comScore ’

Online Video Viewing Reaches New Peak in April

Jun 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured Story, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Internet users viewed a record 16.8 billion online videos in April, representing an increase of 16 percent…..since March!



Disney Partners With Hulu: The Web Video Eyeball War of 09 Begins

May 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, The New Media Update, Video

Thursday, entertainment empire Disney fired a loud salvo in the struggle to unseat YouTube as the king of online video. Disney, parent company of TV network ABC, announced an agreement to join forces with free online video service Hulu.com. Disney will join Hulu’s other content partners, NBC Universal, and News Corporation, as well as Providence […]



Online Video Viewing Jumps 11 Percent In March

Apr 29th, 2009 | By | Category: Video

Internet information provider comScore released March 2009 data for online video consumption. Their report indicates that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.5 billion online videos during the month, a jump of 11 percent over February 2009. In March, comScore’s report says, 77.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. Google Sites, (parent of […]



Daily Mobile Internet Use Soars

Mar 16th, 2009 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Mobile Podcasting

Information released this morning by digital measurement company ComScore says that people’s use of mobile devices for accessing news and information on the Internet “more than doubled” from January 2008 – January 2009. Over a third (35 percent, or 22.4 million) of the 63.2 million people who accessed news and information on their mobile devices […]



YouTube Tops 100 Million U.S. Viewers For First Time

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Digital measurement service comScore today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during that month. These figures represent an increase of 4 percent over December 2008. YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental January-versus-December gain in the […]



December Sets Record For U.S. Online Video Viewing; Surges 13%

Feb 4th, 2009 | By | Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts

Internet traffic measurement company comScore today released data from their December 2008 “comScore Video Metrix” service, indicating a huge jump in Internet video-viewing among US Internet users. A record 14.3 billion online videos were viewed during the month, representing an increase of 13 percent over November’s viewing stats. YouTube led the Internet video portals, accounting […]



Internet Video Watching Up by 34%

Jan 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

comScore today released November 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 34 percent versus year ago. 77% of all Americans on the Internet watch online video, an average of 273 minutes per person for the month. Other notable findings: 97 […]



The Top 20 Social Networking Sites

Jan 1st, 2009 | By | Category: General

ComScore has published its take on the top social networking sites for November, and it continues to be dominated by social media sites, like Blogger, MySpace, WordPress.com and Flickr: Top Social Networking Sites Blogger (222 million) Facebook (200 million) MySpace (126 million) WordPress (114 million) Windows Live Spaces (87 million) Yahoo Geocities (69 million) Flickr […]



Half Of US Watching Online Videos

Dec 9th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

comScore released its latest stats today on online media use. Here are comScore’s top ten video destinations, ranked by numbers (in thousand) of videos viewed: Google Sites – 5,373,783 Fox Interactive Media - 519,926 Yahoo! Sites - 363,426 Viacom Digital - 305,258 Microsoft Sites - 286,464 Hulu - 235,096 Turner Network - 228,024 Disney Online - 126,611 AOL LLC - 122,580 ESPN - 104,724 […]



Internet TV Use Up 45% In Last Year

Jul 14th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics, Video

Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago. Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May. Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 […]