Youth Fuels Online Video
According to new consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, 31% of adults online at home report that they view video online at least weekly, including 10% who view video online daily. This compares to 25% of those online who viewed video online at least once a week last year. However, increases in online video usage over the past year were primarily among younger individuals, a group that watches video online far more frequently than others.
Based on a survey of 1,250 households nationwide, as part of the LRG study Emerging Video Services II, other key findings include:
Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Research Group, says "Online video is emerging as a medium unto itself... Not necessarily...an alternative to traditional TV viewing..."
Almost concurrently, a new study by Blinkx and Harris Interactive, looking at the interplay between television viewing and Online activity, shows that when it comes to television viewing, viewers aren't necessarily abandoning their TV in favor of the Web. 78% U.S. adults go online while watching TV, and more than a third of them do so always or often.
62% of of adults who enjoy surfing the Internet while watching television, surf for content that is not related to what they're watching. And 25% go online for information specific to the programming they are currently viewing. Most commonly, those who surf the web for related content are looking for more information or color about what they're watching, be it profiles of the actors (51%), products/services that appeared in or were advertised during the program (40%), or related upcoming events (39%).
A summary of some other highlights from the survey of adults who watch television and use the web while doing so include:
More on this study can be found here.
Finally, a new online video measurement tool, VideoCensus from Nielsen Online, provides some specific metric information about Online video streaming including viewers, categories, brands and dayparts.
Overall Online Video Consumption(U.S., Home and Work) | |
Unique Viewers (000) | 116,745 |
Total Streams (000) | 5,987,475 |
Streams per Viewer | 51.3 |
Time Spent Viewing per Viewer (min) | 124.4 |
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus |
Top Online Categories for Video Consumers 12-17(U.S., Home and Work) | |||
Category | Streams Composition% | Total Streams (000) | Unique Viewers 12-17(000) |
General Interest Portals | 86% | 123,885 | 5,958 |
Member Communities | 25% | 96,576 | 4,087 |
Photography | 20% | 2,185 | 750 |
Online Games | 16% | 10,840 | 584 |
Videos/Movies | 16% | 486,166 | 8,580 |
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus | |||
Example: 16 percent of the streams in the Videos/Movies category were viewed by people 12-17. |
Top Brands by Video Streams for January 2008(U.S., Home and Work) | ||
Brand | Total Streams(000) | Unique Viewers(000) |
YouTube | 2,570,182 | 66,167 |
Fox Interactive Media | 376,859 | 18,955 |
Yahoo! | 299,044 | 22,119 |
Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network | 172,567 | 7,014 |
MSN/Windows Live | 132,769 | 7,659 |
Disney Online | 102,914 | 8,977 |
Turner Entertainment New Media Network | 98,162 | 5,056 |
ESPN | 90,212 | 4,709 |
79,395 | 12,949 | |
Veoh | 72,832 | 2,385 |
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus | ||
Example: 72.8 million video streams were viewed at Veoh in January 2008. |
Stream Index by Daypart for Top Brands(U.S., Home and Work) | ||||
Brand | M-F 6am-9am | M-F 12pm-2pm | M-F 5pm-8pm | M-F 8pm-11pm |
YouTube | 67 | 81 | 104 | 116 |
Fox Interactive Media | 72 | 85 | 117 | 107 |
Yahoo! | 219 | 129 | 88 | 81 |
Nickelodean Kids | 99 | 76 | 129 | 63 |
MSN/Windows live | 127 | 162 | 71 | 51 |
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus An average composition index is 100. | ||||
Example: Video streams at Yahoo! were more than twice as likely to be viewed during the hours of 6am-9am Monday through Friday. |