Posted on 01/10/2008 5:12:05 AM PST by abb
ON A TYPICAL DAY NEAR the end of 2007, the share of Web users going to video-sharing sites like YouTube was nearly twice as large as it was in 2006, according to new data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. What's more, in December, nearly half (48%) of Internet users reported visiting a video-sharing site, up from 33% at the end of 2006.
About 15% of respondents said they had used a video-sharing site "yesterday"--the day before they were contacted for the survey. A year ago, 8% had visited such a site "yesterday." Thus, on an average day, the number of users of video sites nearly doubled from the end of 2006 to the end of 2007.
These results come from a survey of 2,054 American adults conducted between Oct. 24 and Dec. 2, 2007.
"The dramatic growth in the population using video-sharing sites is tied at least in part to the popularity of such sites among men, younger adults (those under age 30), and college graduates," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. "Nearly a third of wired young adults (30%) watch a video on a site like YouTube on a typical day, and fully a fifth of online men (20%) do the same."
At the same time, growth in daily traffic surged among some other demographic groups. Among women, for example, use on an average day jumped from 5% to 11%--or an increase of 120%. And among those ages 30 to 49, use on a typical day increased from 7% to 14%--an increase of 100%.
Growth in traffic is also linked to the spread of broadband connections. In Pew's December 2006 survey, 45% of all American adults said they had broadband at home, and in this most recent survey, 54% of all adults said they had high-speed connections at home. Gavin O'Malley can be reached at gavin@mediapost.com
Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.
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Electing Hillary! will be their Magnum Opus.
Oddly enough, the only sitcom I have been watching semi-regularly is the George Lopez show. It's old and in reruns, but I didn't watch them when they first aired.
Don't miss it, though MrsP still wants one. I guess we'll get a big screen TV, but it will have to have a PC connection or two (I tried this out at MIL's house - dropped a wirelessed desktop behind the TV to be able to surf the web from the couch when there - works great).
I went to a virtual Hannah Montana concert the other morning at breakfast. Saved a ton of money (didn't even have to listen to a GEICO ad).
That's because you're looking at the unscripted input of the users themselves. It's been long enough since we've seen any such. Everything on TV is scripted, even the "reality" shows.
Except now, with the writers on strike, they got no more scripts. Cry me a river while I bring up YouTube again....
I like Jeopardy. Even Wheel of Fortune is better paced than some of the other shows.
And I actually have to preview some of the stuff on the Game Show Network. My son turned off the set during a rerun of Greed or The Weakest Link or something. I turned it back on during an episode of Dog Eat Dog (or something like that) at this very moment -- a girl was throwing darts in her underwear (at first, I was hoping it was a bathing suit, at least). The host told her that if she wanted to throw one more dart, she only needed to score 10 points. The woman replied, "Okay, my bra." At which point, she took off her bra in front of a studio audience (and two male contestants just a few feet away), who got a great gander before she covered herself with one arm.
She then threw the dart, scored the points needed and jumped up with both arms raised in the air. Classy stuff. But, hey, it's all pixelated, so it's good tv, right? I shut it off. I've since been told that that segment of the show is called "Strip Darts". Times have changed.
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