55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a May 2008 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project: The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007 and 42% in early 2005. Among individuals who use the internet at […]

In five years, video will be everywhere, showing up on your phone, on Blade Runner-esque billboards, in your email and on your car’s GPS unit. According to Forrester analyst James L. McQuivey, Ph.D., you’ll encounter “a dozen video platforms per day,” – what he calls an OmniVideo world. You’ll not only watch more video, but more of […]

TubeMogul, a video analytics and distribution service, has announced its TubeMogul Top 40, and indie video podcasters and new media networks top the list. This is a list of the publishers using TubeMogul to distribute their videos that get the most views each month. While it’s not surprising that the list is dominated by new […]

We talk a lot at Podcasting News about how new media gives anyone the potential to publish to people all around the world. This poses challenges to traditional media, though, especially newspapers, because they are faced with tens of thousands of nimble new competitors. As a result, newspapers are losing advertisers to Web media, losing […]

Internet video service TubeMogul reports that viewing for Internet videos tends to peak early and drop quickly – suggesting that the long tail of Internet video has a short shelf life. They found that most videos get a quarter of their views within 4 days and half their views within just two weeks: In other […]

comScore today released April 2008 data from its comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube accounting for more than 4 billion of that total. Other highlights: 71 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. The average online video viewer watched […]

According to a new survey, the average teenager’s iPod has about $800 of pirated music on it: On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs. The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. In addition, 14 per cent of CDs (one in seven) […]

Nicholas Carr, in the Atlantic this month, makes the case that Google, and the Internet in general, is making us stupid: “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I […]

Internet research firm HitWise reports that, while Hulu is getting big shows, it’s not getting big audiences.  Hulu.com., the joint venture between Fox and NBC that provides streaming video content online, came out of beta on March 15 and has seen a steady share of US Internet traffic since: Alexa’s reach chart mirrors this: The […]

The number of Americans that listen to radio at work is declining, as more and more people turn to Internet radio. According to data from the Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet & Multimedia series of studies, among people who are employed full or part time and listen to radio at work, the portion listening most often […]