In September 2011, the UK Internet population made over 785 million visits to online video websites – an increase of 36 per cent year-on-year, according to analysis from competitive intelligence firm Experian Hitwise. According to Experian’s report – Online Video: Bringing Social Media to Life – the majority of growth in this space has been […]
The latest findings from the comScore Video Metrix service indicate that 182 million US Internet users watched online video content in September for an average of 19.5 hours per viewer. The total US Internet audience engaged in 39.8 billion video views. Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, were once again ranked as […]
People who use personal devices such as tablets and smartphones at the same time as watching TV are ignoring television commercials almost completely, according to new research published by the Strategy Analytics Digital Home Observatory. The report, “Multi-Screen User Behaviours in the Home,” identifies reasons why multiscreen users shift their focus between devices and how […]
More than 42 million homes across the US and Europe are using the Internet to watch television shows and movies on the TV screen, according to research from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices (CHD) service. The report – Multiscreen Connected TV: Assessing Device Usage and Ownership – bases its findings on a survey of 4,800 […]
Forty-four per cent of TV households in the United States have at least one Digital Video Recorder (DVR), and one-third of DVR households have more than one DVR -representing 14 per cent of all households having multiple DVRs according to recent consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG). In 2005, just 8 per cent of […]
James Cameron’s Avatar is the most pirated film of all time. Website Torrentfreak.com has compiled a list of the top 10 most downloaded movies, and Avatar came top with 21 million downloads – easily beating The Dark Knight and Transformers by two million downloads. Given the piracy was all in 2D this somewhat undermines the […]
A new survey found that 40 per cent of tablet and smart phone owners are using their functions while watching TV. The research from Nielsen found that most common activity done on tablets and smart phones is checking emails, with about 60 per cent of respondents. And according to the survey, a similar number of […]
Blip.tv, one of the Internet’s largest independently owned and operated video properties, has published the results of a study focusing on original web video. Blip.tv commissioned the study with Dynamic Logic, a specialist in digital insights, to offer key insights into how, when and where Blip.tv audiences are watching online video. According to Dynamic Logic, […]
MobiTV, a mobile TV solutions company, has revealed that during the month of September 2011, US consumers viewed more than 167 million minutes of mobile television on MobiTV-powered services – the highest total for any month in MobiTV history. Of note, 65 per cent of the minutes viewed were live programming. The viewership illustrates continued […]
FTI Consulting has found in a new consumer survey that tablet users in the US are not only ardent consumers of digital content but also are more willing to pay for online subscriptions. These results suggest that well-formulated digital media strategies may offer new revenue prospects to traditional media. In a study, FTI Consulting compares […]