NEW RECORD FOR ONLINE VIDEO VIEWING

Watching videos online set a new record in August as 188 million Internet users in the U.S. accessed 37.7 billion videos online, according to comScore, which measures online video use. The Reston, VA-based research firm said that ad views rose to 9.5 billion. Once again, Google’s YouTube dominated with 150.2 million unique viewers. A distant […]

MORE THAN HALF OF IPAD OWNERS WATCH VIDEO

Suggesting that size really does matter, a new study by comScore has revealed that 53 percent of iPad and other tablet users watch video or TV shows on their device at least once a month versus 20 percent of smartphone users. In addition, 19.9 percent of the tablet users said that they watched video content […]

ONLINE VIDEO WATCHING SETS NEW RECORD

A record number of online users watched a record number of online videos during the month of October, according to a study released Monday by Reston, VA-based comScore. According to the study, 184 million Internet users in the U.S. each spent an average of 21.1 hours watching video on the web. Together they viewed 42.6 […]

CNN LEADS ALL OTHER CABLE NEWS NETWORKS ONLINE

While CNN continues to struggle to stay out of last place among its cable news competitors — it landed on the bottom on Monday night — it handily beats not only them but also virtually every other news organization online. Citing comScore studies, Simon Owens, in an article for Harvard’s NiemanLab, noted on Tuesday that […]

CABLE NEWS CHANNELS MORE POPULAR ONLINE THAN NEWSPAPERS

The websites of each of the major cable news channels draw more traffic than those of any newspaper — with CNN topping the field, National Public Radio (NPR) media correspondent David Folkenflik observed on Tuesday. CNN.com averages 8.5 million unique U.S. visitors each day, Folkenflik noted, citing figures from audience measurement company ComScore. MSNBC.com was […]

MORE AMERICANS WATCHING VIDEO ONLINE

By December of last year, Americans were spending a record 14 hours per month watching online video, up 12 percent from a year ago, researchers comScore reported today (Tuesday) in its annual Digital Year in Review. While YouTube continued to represent the go-to site for most online video — “YouTube” was the second-most-Googled word during […]

HULU LOSES 45 PERCENT OF ITS VIEWERS

Hulu, the video site owned by Disney/ABC, NBC Universal, and Fox and long regarded as the No. 2 video site behind YouTube, is actually no where near as popular as it was believed to be, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Tuesday). Previous estimates of the number of viewers accessing the website plunged 45 percent […]