Global consumers will spend an average of 67 minutes a day watching online video this year, up from 56 minutes last year, according to Zenith’s Online Video Forecasts 2018. By 2020, the average person will be spending 84 minutes a day watching videos online. In that year, China will have the keenest viewers, with the […]
Video research from Parks Associates reveals US broadband households watch an average of two hours of alternative content on a computer each week from sources including Facebook, SnapChat, YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. The research examines alternative content such as livestreaming, user-generated content, short-form videos, and web video series that are available via social networking, video […]
YouTube has rolled out new monetisation and engagement features for users who upload content to its video-sharing website. Speaking at the VidCon 2018 conference in California, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan revealed that the Google-owned streaming platform aims to help YouTubers monetise their content through means other than advertising. The first of these features […]
YouTube has launched two new streaming services – YouTube Music and YouTube Premium – in the UK and 12 other new countries. YouTube Music will enable users to listen to tracks as well as watch music videos and discover new artists through a new standalone app. A Music Premium subscription will cost £9.99 a month […]
Dailymotion has released a new version of its online video player offering for publishers. The company says that its Dailymotion Player allows companies to deliver flawless streaming experiences across their owned properties and automatically syndicate their content to a broader audience via Dailymotion’s global publisher network. “This evolution of the Dailymotion Player underscores our attentiveness […]
Statistics show that watching the big screen remains the activity that children dedicate the most time to, according to the latest Kids Tech Consumer Survey report from Futuresource Consulting. This was equivalent to an average of 4.8 hours a week across kids aged 3-16 years in all countries surveyed, which included: the UK, France, Germany, […]
YouTube’s first quarterly ‘enforcement report’ reveals the website removed 8.3 million videos between October and December 2017 for breaching its community guidelines. The figure does not include videos removed for copyright or legal reasons. In a blogpost, YouTube said the “majority of these 8 million videos were spam or people attempting to upload adult content.” […]
Wibbitz, the AI-powered video creation platform, has released the findings from its latest study, Video For Business: Content Consumption Trends, analysing how and where consumers are motivated to consume video in addition to the type of content they prefer. In late 2017, Wibbitz surveyed over 1,000 people finding that among various business use cases inclusive […]
YouTube is children’s favourite online destination with practically all 5-16 year olds exploring it and a growing majority using it every single day, reveals a report from CHILDWISE into childhood in 2018. This year’s favourite YouTuber is Logan Paul, who has knocked Zoella off of her long-held top spot. “Prior to this year, Logan had […]
Nielsen has introduced advertising measurement on YouTube’s mobile app through its Digital Ad Ratings service in the UK, France, and Germany. The service, which expands Nielsen’s current measurement coverage of YouTube ads on desktop and mobile web browsers, will now provide marketers independent and comprehensive cross-device measurement of advertising audiences on YouTube across computer and […]