10 things you never knew about web videos
Web videos have been around for a long time. Some of you even may consider themselves experts in this particular area.
But have you ever heard about these 10 interesting web video facts before?
- Mainstream HD Web-Movies won’t be around for many more years to come. They require broadband internet connections - and only 50% of US households have access to them by 2008.
- According to comScore, almost 70% of the online population has watched online video.
- The average internet user consumes 73 minutes of online video every month.
- Most reviews don’t give YouTube the “top video sharing site” crown. Blip and the now terminated Stage6 have been the best rated sites.
- According to HitWise, YouTube takes up 75% of the Video site market share in the US. (MySpaceTV 9%, Google Video 3.7%, Yahoo Video 1.9% and Veoh 1.1%).
- Among the top 5 players in this industry, only Veoh and Youtube gained market share compared to last year.
- YouTube started with 58,000 monthly visitors back in August 2005. Now it’s almost at 59 Million monthly vistors.
- 136 Million people watch web videos every single month.
- Youporn has been blocked in Germany by some broadband providers and by Google. It was unblocked by most providers and big G after implementing an own age-confirmation system (are you 18? Enter/Leave - duh).
- 54% of internet traffic is video-related. Many tech’s have been alerting that if providers don’t keep investing in new infrastructure, the internet could start slowing down by 2010.
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