Thursday, September 9, 2010

Big Growth for Online Streaming Video


Link to September 9 Rapid TV News post, "US live online streaming video sees 600% growth."

Excerpt: Thanks to technology advances and the broadband connections that make watching online video a less painful experience than in the past, American viewership of streaming live video has grown 648%, to more than 1.4 billion minutes, in the past year.

In contrast, the time that Americans spent on non-live sites YouTube and Hulu.com increased 68% amd 75%, respectively, over the same time period.

The data, revealed in research from comScore, indicates that top live video publishers like Justintv, USTREAM, Livestream, LiveVideo, and Stickam are reaping most of the benefits of the hockey-stick uptake
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