Hulu Tops 1 Billion Views In December As Online Video Surges
Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in December, with 33.2 billion videos viewed during the month, comScore reports. Google sites delivered 13.2 billion videos, with YouTube.com...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics Spending Fuels E-Commerce Growth, Says comScore
U.S. retail e-commerce spending increased 9% in the second quarter, topping $32.9 billion, according to comScore (via Digital Media Wire). The research firm attributes the growth to spending increases...
View ArticleTime Spent Watching Live Streaming Video Surges, Says comScore
The amount of time that American audiences spend watching live video streams from sites such as Justin.tv and Ustream has grown 648% year-over-year to more than 1.4 billion minutes, according to...
View ArticleFacebook Captures No. 2 Slot In Online Video Rankings
As usual, Google sites (viz. YouTube) top comScore’s latest monthly online video rankings, garnering 146.3 million unique viewers in August 2010. But Facebook.com jumped one position in the research...
View ArticleResearch: 56 Million Online Adults ‘Off the Grid’ of Live TV
Nearly one third of the adult online population in the U.S. — roughly 56 million people — have shifted the majority of their video viewing to non-live content sources, according to a new report from...
View ArticleCyber Monday Sales Topped $1 Billion
Some $16.8 billion has been spent online for the holiday season to date, marking a 12-percent increase over 2009, according to comScore. Last week saw four individual days top $800 million in spending,...
View ArticleData Dispute: Media Researchers Balk at Internet/TV Usage Study
Forrester Research is having to defend newly-released survey findings that suggest consumers spend the same amount of time on the Internet as they do watching TV. The Forrester report tells quite a...
View ArticlecomScore: Vevo Tops 50 Million Viewers One Year After Launch
Vevo, the ad-supported music video streaming service, steadily grew its audience in 2010, topping 50.6 million viewers for the month of December alone, according to data released by comScore. Much of...
View ArticleSocial Networks, TV Sites On the Rise with Online Consumers: comScore
Social networking now claims a larger share of online consumers’ time than entertainment, according to comScore’s annual review of the digital media business. But the rise of online TV may change the...
View ArticleMedia Drives E-Commerce Spending Growth in Q1
Video game software, consoles and accessories, along with books and magazines, were among the top-performing categories in consumers' e-commerce spending during the first quarter of 2011, according to...
View ArticleAverage YouTube Viewing Topped Five Hours in May: comScore
Last month was the first in which the average YouTube viewer in the U.S. watched more than five hours of video on the site, according to comScore. Some 176 million U.S. Internet users watched online...
View ArticleOnline Video Uptick
Some 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in June, engaging in an all-time high of 6.2 billion viewing sessions during the month, according to new data from comScore. Viewers...
View ArticleHoliday Spending: Online Retail Already Up 14 Percent; High Consumer...
Some encouraging consumer data on the eve of this year’s hotly anticipated holiday shopping weekend: • Holiday shoppers already have spent $9.7 billion online in November, a 14 percent increase from...
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