Sunday, July 17, 2011

178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video in June

According to comScore Video Metrix, 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in June for an average of 16.8 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 6.2 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month, an all-time high.

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique ViewersGoogle Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in June with 149.3 million unique viewers, followed by VEVO with 63.0 million viewers and Yahoo! Sites with 52.7 million viewers. Microsoft Sites came in fourth with 50.7 million viewers, while Viacom Digital ranked fifth with 49.5 million viewers. Total viewing sessions surpassed the 6 billion mark for the first time, with Google Sites generating the highest number of viewing sessions (2.3 billion) and highest time spent per viewer (324 minutes, or 5.4 hours).

Top 10 Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed
Americans viewed nearly 5.3 billion video ads in June, with Hulu generating the highest number of video ad impressions at more than 1.0 billion. Tremor Media Video Network ranked second overall (and highest among video ad networks) with 753 million ad views, followed by Adap.tv (678 million) and BrightRoll Video Network (629 million). Time spent watching videos ads totaled more than 2.2 billion minutes during the month, with Tremor Media Video Network delivering the highest duration of video ads at 429 million minutes. Video ads reached 49 percent of the total U.S. population an average of 35.6 times during the month. Hulu delivered the highest frequency of video ads to its viewers with an average of 38.8 over the course of the month.
-comScore

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Social Video Marketing Tips for Brands & Businesses

New research from Brightcove shows that videos shared through social media perform better than other videos, with higher engagement and completion rates.

Social Video Stats & Trends (per Brightcove)

Videos shared through social media perform better than other videos. For example:
  • Every auto-share Tweet from YouTube results in roughly 6 new YouTube viewing sessions.
  • Videos shared via Facebook are driving traffic for brands and media companies.
  • Viewers that find new videos to watch via friends or influencers on social networks are more likely to view or even complete watching an entire video.
  • Web pages with video and text are 60% more likely to show up on the first page of Google.

Social Video Marketing Tips

How do you enhance the social effect of video for your brand or business?
  • Video gets you ranked higher on Google.
  • Video can drive traffic to your site.
  • Include Facebook and other sharing buttons on your videos and on the video player to simplify sharing.
  • A clickable call-to-action in the video can boost engagement with your video and website.
  • Monitor, assess and measure how your videos are being shared, and where referrals are coming from.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Q and A Site Quora Adds YouTube Video Embeds

Q&A services are all the rage right now, with sites like Quora and formspring adding tons of new users and piling up the archives of content. And now Quora is taking a huge leap forward in engaging content by adding the ability to embed YouTube videos inside of their Q&A pages.

But the addition of video is huge. Surely I don’t need to preach to this audience about the power of video to convey thoughts and emotions in a way that is vastly superior to simple text.

Consider the sample Question thrown out by Mark Bodnick, who is part of the Quora product marketing team. He points to the recent submission of “What’s are the best storytelling songs?” as a perfect example of how video can make the Q&A experience richer:

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A video of a song embedded as an answer to that question is a far more engaging response than someone typing the name of a song and the artist. With video, readers can actually experience each suggested answer

It’s also another sign of video’s pending world domination. It’s showing up everywhere. Bloggers are now vlogging. E-commerce sites are adding product videos. There will always be plenty of products and services on the web that are not video-based, but soon enough, they’ll all at least be using video in some way: for promotion, for internal communication, for richer content offerings, or as a core product.- Jeremy Scott, ReelSEO


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