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Fifty-seven Percent of U.S. Internet Users Have Watched Online Video, 19 percent do so on a typical day, says the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s less than Nielsen’s 63 percent estimate and comScore’s 75 percent. Pew also finds young men like UGC more than everyone else, who prefer professional. Pew’s giving away free PDF download, so go and grab some charts to justify your startup pitch. (Pew)
Veoh Gets New CEO; founding CEO Dmitry Shapiro will be “Chief Innovation Officer” while Steve Mitgang, former Yahoo advertising SVP, steps in as chief exec. (release)
Harmonic Acquires Rhozet for $15.5M; paying cash and stock for the transcoding company. (release)
Report.tv Launches; citizen journalism, web-video style. (Contentinople)
Subtitle Horse Helps Add Subtitles to Flash; supports Google Video and others. (site, via Google Blogoscoped)
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[...] NewTeeVee pointed out that Pew’s figure for overall video consumption is lower than Nielsen’s 63 percent estimate [...]
Vidhammer » 57% of Internet Users have Watched Videos Online on July 26th, 2007 at 2:20 pm - Permalink
Liz – Surprised you don’t even mention BBC’s launch of its iPlayer today. BBC is the world’s largest broadcaster, and its iPlayer launch is widely recognized as one of the most comprehensive online video offerings ever put forth by a broadcaster – anywhere. I would assume you have readers outside of the US – you might want to at least mention the iPlayer, as it’s a pretty big milestone in the industry.
Jeff on July 27th, 2007 at 6:18 am - Permalink
Jeff, for us it’s just starting to be Friday right now. I just checked the BBC site a few minutes ago, actually, and was still seeing the beta sign-up page. However, it looks like I wouldn’t be able to use it anyways. Where are you based? If you can try it, could you please tell us what you think?
Liz Gannes on July 27th, 2007 at 8:43 am - Permalink
Om did a quick item earlier. Would still love any hands-on reviews.
Liz Gannes on July 27th, 2007 at 8:57 am - Permalink
[...] pour être intégrées dans le programme. Mais selon le site NewTeeVee, la meilleure proposition de ce genre nouveau est probablement celui de Report.tv, qui recrute des [...]
Les Quotidiennes - Le nouveau citoyen reporter-video on July 30th, 2007 at 12:22 am - Permalink