Study: 37% Of U.S. Teens Now Use Video Chat, 27% Upload Videos. Video chat is still something many people don’t feel comfortable with. For U.S. teens, however, it is quickly becoming a pretty routine way of communicating with each other. According to a new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 37% of teens now regularly use Skype, Apple’s iChat and startups like Tinychat to video chat with each other. There are significant differences between how many boys and girls use video chat, though. Only a third of boys use video chat while 42% of girls said they have video chatted. Maybe unsurprisingly, those teens who use the Internet more frequently also use video chats more often than their peers who only go online a few times per week. The same is true for teens who text and use social media more often than their peers.
The Pew study also looked at how often kids upload video to the web. Despite the gender gap in video chatting, though, boys and girls are equally likely to upload video these days. With Watch It Button, Plexus Creates A ‘Super Netflix Queue’ For Movies Across The Web. Despite its struggles of late, Netflix is still one of the most popular sources when it comes to online streaming of movies and TV shows. (Although things may change if it’s acquired by Verizon.) For many of us, the Netflix queue is our go-to source for bookmarking films that we’d like to watch at a later date.
One new startup, called Plexus Entertainment, wants to take the Netflix formula and apply it to a broader scale. In the big picture, Plexus’ goal is to connect films and filmmakers with their audiences, so to do that, they’ve launched “Watch It” in public beta to allow users to keep track of movies they’re interested in, where those movies are playing, and to be proactively notified of all the different ways to view those films.
Huzzah! While there are umpteen different buttons spread across the Web that allow sharing and self-expression around digital content, Plexus Founder and CEO David Larkin sees Watch It as a first for the movie industry. With Funding Secured, VidCaster Now Lets You Make One-Click, Custom Video Websites (For Free) YouTube has become the go-to source for video distribution and hosting, and, to date, the video giant has seen tens of millions of channels created, where users are uploading their video content in droves — by the second. Professional videographers, amateur smartphone camera operators, and everyone in between is taking advantage of the YouTube limelight, many of them through their channels.
Of course, while these channels are a great place to store one’s cache of video, maybe you want to create your own independent video site to host your own videos — to take advantage of all those video optimization assets you can’t get from YouTube. A startup called VidCaster, which aims to make online video publishing painless and profitable for individual users, small businesses and enterprise clients alike, recently launched a new feature that allows YouTubers to do just that — for free. And the best part? For more on VidCaster, check ‘em out at home here. Online video revenues to triple in 2011. Consumption of legitimate free and paid for online video is on track to exceed 770 billion views across the USA, UK, France and Germany this year, according to a new report from Futuresource Consulting. Improvements in accessibility and ease of use are among the growth triggers that have seen the rise from around 640 billion views last year, with the USA dominating the market.
“Total online video views are on track to grow by 20 per cent and paid-for online video revenues will reach in excess of $3 billion this year,” advised Mai Hoang, Senior Analyst at Futuresource Consulting. “Online purchase and rental transactions are playing a part, but the majority of this revenue is coming out of the USA, predominantly through streaming subscription service Netflix. By 2015, paid-for online video spend is forecast to hit close to $7 billion across the four countries.” “The growing range of mobile devices is playing an increasingly significant part in the online video market,” says Hoang. Cisco Predicts That 90% Of All Internet Traffic Will Be Video In The Next Three Years. There’s no question about it—online video is booming. Not only is over 48 hours of video content being uploaded to YouTube every minute, but brands from all arenas are incorporating video into their websites as well, and people are watching everything from online content to TV and movies online.
Online video is everywhere you look and Cisco predicts that it’s not going away anytime soon. In fact, they think that within the next three years online video will account for a whopping 90 percent of all Internet traffic. In an interview with Beet.TV, Cisco’s VP for Marketing and Emerging Technologies, David Hsieh, points out that “video is invading all aspects of our lives.” Video isn’t just for entertainment anymore. It’s clear that, in modern society, people crave a quick, easy way to consume information. Check out Beet.TV’s interview with David Hsieh below and let us know what you think. Megan O’Neill is the resident web video enthusiast here at Social Times. Online Video Revenues Triple In 2011, Could Reach $7 Billion By 2015. It’s no mystery that online video is on the rise. YouTube is now racking up over 3.5 billion daily views from over 800 million monthly viewers, television series fans are turning in their TV sets for Hulu and Netflix and more and more brands are investing advertising dollars in online video campaigns.
But just how big has online video become? According to a new report from Futuresource Consulting, online video revenues tripled this year and they are on the path to becoming a $7 billion industry by 2015. According to Mai Hoang, Senior Analyst at Futuresource Consulting, “Total online views are on track to grow by 20 percent and paid-for online video revenues will reach in excess of $3 billion this year. Online purchase and rental transactions are playing a part, but the majority of this revenue is coming out of the USA, predominantly through streaming subscription service Netflix.
By 2015, paid-for online video spend is forecast to hit close to $7 billion across the four countries.” Releases October 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings. November 28, 2011 comScore Releases October 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings Record 20 Billion Content Videos Viewed on Google Sites RESTON, VA, November 28, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer.
Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in October with 161 million unique viewers and reached a record high of 20.9 billion videos viewed. *A video is defined as any streamed segment of audiovisual content, (both progressive downloads and live streams). This social chart is intended for public use.
Top 10 Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed Top 10 YouTube Partner Channels by Unique Viewers Other notable findings from October 2011 include: Netflix lève 400 millions de dollars pour financer son expansion en Europe. Netflix vient d’annoncer une levée de 400 millions de dollars. Cette nouvelle intervient alors qu’il y a près d’un mois, le loueur américain de vidéos sur internet essuyait une perte de 800 000 abonnements et une chute de 30% de son action en bourse, en une journée . Cette augmentation en capital a pour but de financer le développement de son offre en Europe, et en premier lieu en Grande Bretagne, dont la mise en service est prévue en 2012.
Dans les détails, Netflix a cédé pour 200M $ d’actions ordinaires à des fonds administrés par T. Rowe Price Associates et a placé 200 millions de dollars auprès de Technology Crossover Ventures, à travers un placement privé de titres convertibles. Par ailleurs, Netflix s’est récemment lancé à la conquête de 43 pays en Amérique latine et aux Caraïbes. Et, malgré l’érosion de son nombre d’abonnés, le revenu net de la société est passé de 38 millions à 62,5 millions de dollars, au cours du troisième trimestre, comparé à la même période il y a un an.