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Traditional television remains the screen of choice for Americans, according to Nielsen’s recent Three Screen Report. The average American watches 153 hours of TV every month at home, the report found. That’s a 1.2% increase from last year. While Americans are watching more TV than ever, viewing on the...
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WE is launching its first online original scripted series, "In Men We Trust " The comedy, premiering April 1 on WEtv.com, follow a group of thirtysomething women as they date guided by a relationship guru played by Phoebe Jones. Seven episodes have been produced. New shows will debut on Tuesdays...
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Disney Media Networks has signed a deal with Google’s YouTube that will bring short-from content from various Disney properties to the Web video giant. As part of the deal, clips from the Disney-ABC Television Group and ESPN will begin to appear on the site. ESPN content will roll out beginning in mid...
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NBC.com saw a bump in full-episode streaming with its video player in the fourth quarter, as well as higher user satisfaction compared with the quarter before, the network reported today. Viewers also multitasked less when watching NBC shows on NBC.com in the fourth quarter than they did in the third...
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For the first time, YouTube has surpassed 100 million U.S. monthly viewers, according to new comScore information. The Web video giant logged 100.9 million U.S. viewers during the month of January. Viewers averaged 62.6 clips each, bringing the site’s total to 6.3 billion video streams for the month...
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Break Media inked a deal with Web measurement firm Quantcast that will give the online media company audience demographics for its male-targeted sites, the companies announced today. Break will use Quantcast’s tools across its network of sites to provide more detailed audience breakdown data to advertisers...
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Web video viewership jumped 13% in December from the month before, comScore reported today. The online audience measurement firm found that Internet users in the United States watched a record 14.3 billion online videos in December, a 13% rise from the previous month. YouTube led the way with a 49% gain...
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Facebook makes its first foray into original Web series today as the social networking site debuts a Web series in partnership with actor-producer Ashton Kutcher’s production company, the companies announced. “Katalyst HQ,” a reality Web show on the inner workings of Mr. Kutcher’s production company...
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A group of podcasters, in conjunction with industry group the Association for Downloadable Media, today introduced a set of standards for advertising in programs delivered on the Web. The ADM said many of its members have been supporting standard practices on their own and now are banding together to...
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ABC has learned that doubling the ad load from four to eight in its online primetime shows doesn't decrease consumer interest in watching shows online, said Albert Cheng, executive VP of digital media with the Disney-ABC Television Group, during an afternoon panel at NATPE. During its research, the...
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Online video network Break Media formed an internal development and production group called Creative Lab, designed to develop original content for branded advertisers for Break Media, the company announced today. Break Media targets men 18 to 34 and reaches 60 million unique monthly visitors across its...
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Does online video viewing help or hurt old-fashioned TV? Recent research from Starz and One Touch Intelligence suggest the Web is less of a threat than previously thought. But the New Media Minute asks if that’s a smart assumption to make. This edition also covers a new effort by NBC to hire local video...
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Online video search service Pixsy introduced a new feature today to help the publishers it works with make money on their video content. The new “Pixsy Premium Feed” embeds pre-rolls ads and overlay ads into the licensed and syndicated video programming that Pixsy indexes, providing a new revenue stream...
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The world’s biggest video site and the world’s most popular premium video destination both served up more videos in November than the month before, according to the most recent figures from Nielsen Online. The dominant YouTube delivered nearly 5.6 billion streams to nearly 85 million unique visitors...
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Hulu is reaching farther into the mainstream with explosive growth in views in October, according to the latest video viewing figures from Nielsen Online. The site rocketed in October, delivering 206 million streams of video, up from 142 million in September. The number of unique visitors rose to 9 million...