It looks like Chicken Little is behind the wheel at Fortune magazine. Fortune’s Richard Siklos says that “User-generated video under siege,” and that it’s being sidelined by mainstream media’s move into Internet media. What’s obviously happening here is the beginning of a monumental battle for online video viewers’ attention. YouTube or someone else may yet […]

Back in 2006, we said that YouTube As You Know It Is Dead, arguing that Google’s desire to make YouTube “legitimate” would kill off the site’s user-generated focus: Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. “The combined companies will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to […]

Everybody is analyzing Barack Obama’s historic win over John McCain and a lot of smart people have come to the conclusion that Obama’s use of new media was key to his win.  Here are five of the most interesting looks at the new media angle of Obama’s campaign: The New York Times looks at How Obama Tapped Into […]

New media isn’t just for the cutting edge hipsters anymore; the suits are officially moving in. Marketers are jumping into new media and moving their advertising budgets from traditional media to social networking sites, blogs, podcasts and mobile marketing.  According to a new survey by Epsilon,  nearly two-thirds (63%) of the marketing executives they surveyed […]

Internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for the first six months of 2008 were $11.5 billion, a half-year record that represents a 15.2 percent increase over the first half of 2007. The numbers come from the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report (pdf), covering the first six months and the second quarter of 2008. Search and Display-related advertising […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that people are starting to drop their cable subscriptions for Internet video: “I’m saving a lot of money,” says Tony Leach, a product manager at an online stock brokerage firm in the Bay Area. Mr. Leach canceled his $60-a-month cable subscription two years ago and has watched all of his […]

John McCain’s supporters prefer to get their news and entertainment from television, while Barack Obama’s supporters tend to be “media generalists” who get their news and entertainment from assorted media platforms. A new study by media agency MediaVest found that 65 percent of voters are paying more attention to the presidential election campaign than they did in […]

According to a new survey, the number of people watching video streamed through a browser has doubled over the past year, going from 32% a year ago to 63% today.

“Consumers are changing their online habits quickly,” says research director Michael Wolf. “Broadband speeds have continued to increase at the same time that Hollywood has decided online distribution is a legitimate monetization opportunity.”

  More people are watching video online than ever, with the percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewing online video now topping 75%.  What’s this mean to you? In  a few years, your television will be more like your computer than a traditional television.  comScore today released July 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix […]

Think new media and social networking are just for young people? Think again. Market Research firm The NPD Group reports that online activities once mainly popular with teens and young adults are now getting active participation by baby boomers, too: 61 percent of baby boomer Internet users (age 44 to 61) had visited sites that […]