Online video viewing surges
We do love our videos. In October, we watched more than 13.5 billion videos online - a 45 percent increase over the same month a year earlier. This according to Internet research firm comScore.
No surprise, of course, that YouTube is king of the video mountain, representing more than 5 billion of those videos.
In October, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with nearly 5.4 billion videos viewed (representing a 40 percent share of all videos viewed), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 520 million videos (3.8 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 363 million (2.7 percent), and Viacom Digital with 305 million (2.3 percent). Hulu, a joint venture of NBC and Fox featuring full-length broadcast TV programs, ranked sixth with 235 million videos viewed (1.7 percent).


Tim has covered a wide range of topics, including tourism, crime, aviation and gambling, since becoming a reporter in 1990. The Oklahoma native joined the Post-Dispatch in 2007 after spending nine years in Orlando. In his spare time, he's often exploring one virtual world or another. He can be reached at tbarker@post-dispatch.com.
More like mini-videos are being jammed down our throats, whether we like them or not. If Net news sites refuse to run text and photo articles on news stories, what other choice do we have, other than ignorance?