Korean pop star Psy had the bar raised high for his first song since "Gangnam Style" and, believe it or not, he's breaking records again.
In the first 24 hours after its debut, his video for the new song "Gentleman" — which launched April 14 on YouTube — was watched 38 million times, according to new YouTube stats. Yeesh, that's a lot.
Adobe has released its Digital Video Benchmark for the U.S. for 2012, wherein the Digital Index team shows what it learned monitoring video performance throughout the year across digital platforms. The study compiles data from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, scoring viewing habits and also monitoring ad performance. 2012 saw a massive increase in mobile viewership, according to Adobe’s numbers, though desktop still dominates when it comes to online video.
If you’re a freelancer and you have a blog, you’re probably hoping your posts will impress clients and get them to hire you.
Unfortunately, most freelancer blogs don’t get so much as a nibble, much less a steady stream of clients.
If your blog has a nice clean design and you know how to write an interesting blog post, it’s time to look deeper at why your blog isn’t getting the results you want.
In today’s mobile, social age, one of the best ways to engage your customers and get them to spread the word about your business to friends is through video. But many small business owners shy away from video because they’re intimidated or think their products or services aren’t “sexy” enough. If that’s you, take a lesson from Wasp Barcode, a scanner company whose YouTube page has 1 million views. Wasp Barcode staffers guest post frequently on my blog, so I wasn’t surprised to learn they’re equally savvy about engaging customers visually as well. Here’s how they did it—and how you can do it as well...
You know Google is huge.
Facebook, too.
You probably remember Yahoo.
Amazon is massive, of course.
And oh yeah, eBay!
But we bet you can't name the other 15 biggest Internet Web sites … in order.
We can, thanks to ComScore, which provided us data on December 2012's most popular Web domains in the US.
It's official: Psy's "Gangnam Style" is the first video ever to hit a billion views on YouTube.
For most mortals on video sharing networks, hitting the 1 million views milestone is a feat. For Psy's dance hymn, which was uploaded to YouTube on July 15, millions of views are racking up every hour. It took approximately three hours for the video to go from 995 million to a billion.
YouTube has come to define the era of online video, so let's take a look at its most popular videos of all time. Our latest update has Justin Bieber still at number 1 with Baby, which was the first video to earn a half a billion views! Also of note is a music video by Jennifer Lopez called On The Floor ft. Pitbull, which has risen to number 2 with over 500 million views in less than a year.
Facebook has a billion users, and there’s a million people who say they can help you reach them.
What makes Wetpaint’s pitch stand out is that the company has a public lab experiment it has built out to prove its point: It built Wetpaint.com, an entertainment news site, solely so it could show off the Facebook traffic techniques it has figured out.
Now that site — which looks a whole lot like any other site that covers pop-culture candy like “Twilight” and “Real Housewives” — has 12 million uniques, many of which CEO Ben Elowitz acquired via Facebook. And Elowitz has been able to use it to start wooing clients who want his insight.
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YouTube just announced that it is changing its search ranking algorithm to highlight videos that keep viewers engaged. The idea here, says YouTube, is to “reward engaging videos that keep viewers watching.” Because of this change, YouTube expects that the time viewers spent watching videos from search will increase in the near future.
Pinterest has been the best source of traffic for my website in a very long time, and I’m completely in love with it. In this post, I’m going to walk you through the process I went through to optimize my Pinterest page and start seeing massive traffic.
Do you know why a spammy site design will lower conversions? Many people do not realize they could make some easy changes to their website to simply drive more traffic. There could be many reasons why your website is not getting the conversions it needs, but addressing some of these following issues below could help you get started.
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If you have ever tried to download videos from the Hulu website, you will have probably noticed that most methods don’t work because of the protocol that Hulu uses. Here’s how to download any video you want from the Hulu website.
YouTube's top five corporate channels - which include music video distributor Vevo, video game network Machinima, and a new media company named Maker Studios - gathered a total of 1.5 billion views in May. This is good news for YouTube, which has struggled to find audiences and ad dollars for its premium channels.
Despite falling views in its seventh year, which YouTube maintains is intentional, the month of May saw growth for YouTube's corporate channels. Rounding out the top partner channel list are Warner Music Group and Fullscreen. The statistics and analytics firm Nielsen, which released May viewing data in a blog post yesterday, broke the numbers down further:
Numberphile pays a visit to YouTube and learns the secret behind one of the website's famous idiosyncrasies - why view counts on new videos often freeze at 301.
For some time now, YouTube Live has been thinking about how to move beyond a free, ad-based service. Now it's moving ahead with that plan.
After tests with a handful of publishers, YouTube is offering pay-per-view options to publishers on its live-streaming service. The company said that it was in the process of rolling out live streaming to its partners.
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I have to confess that I'm not among the nearly 200 million viewers who have indulged in YouTube's most-watched video of 2011: Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video.
YouTube reflected on its banner year today, announcing that it served over 1 trillion playbacks in 2011. "That's about 140 views for every person on the earth," YouTube's Rewind blog post says. YouTube saw record traffic and mobile growth this year. It gets 3 billion views per day, and video uploads have doubled since last year.
YouTube just released the top 10 most-watched videos of the year.
The list represents the essential qualities of a YouTube hit: viral potential, cute animals and babies.
And the video that was seen the most? Let's just say, you probably feel very strongly about it one way or the other.
