Internet users viewed a record 16.8 billion online videos in April, representing an increase of 16 percent…..since March!

American television consumption is on the rise, on every platform available, according to a new report from The Nielsen Company. Monthly time spent watching video on the Internet grew especially quickly, up over 50 percent since the first quarter of last year.
Nielsen’s quarterly “Three Screen Report” looks at Americans’ media consumption habits, and this latest [...]

Tom Webster of Edison Research has a thought-provoking piece on the future of podcasting.
At his blog, The Infinite Dial, Webster qualifies the cup-is-half-empty findings of the Zenith Optimedia report (as detailed by eMarketer). To review, Zenith sees the future of podcasting as rosy and profitable only for the lucky few, and podcasting ad revenue will [...]

The Association for Downloadable Media and Edison Research are pairing up to present a free online Webcast covering the latest reasearch on the audience for podcasts.
Tom Webster from Edison Research will present The Podcast Consumer Revealed - 2009, on May 21, 2009, at 1:00 EST. In the Webcast, Webster will discuss the fourth iteration of [...]

Online marketing research firm eMarketer released its latest report Wednesday, a study that indicates a growing number of Americans Internet users are publishing their own blogs, for a growing blog-reading audience.
The cloyingly named The Blogosphere: A-Twitter with Activity, report indicates that the number of American Internet users making their own blogs is growing: 27.9 million [...]

Internet information provider comScore released March 2009 data for online video consumption. Their report indicates that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.5 billion online videos during the month, a jump of 11 percent over February 2009.
In March, comScore’s report says, 77.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. Google Sites, (parent of video [...]

Against the background of story after story of hard times in the newspaper industry, the Wall Street Journal today declared blogging “America’s Newest Profession”:
In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans [...]

Internet traffic measurement company comScore today released data from their December 2008 “comScore Video Metrix” service, indicating a huge jump in Internet video-viewing among US Internet users. A record 14.3 billion online videos were viewed during the month, representing an increase of 13 percent over November’s viewing stats.
YouTube led the Internet video portals, accounting for [...]

Adult use of social networking sites has more than quadrupled in the past four years - from 8% in 2005 to 35% now - according to a report by Pew Internet.
Highlights of the research report:

While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on how children and young adults use social network sites, adults still make [...]

comScore today released November 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 34 percent versus year ago.
77% of all Americans on the Internet watch online video, an average of 273 minutes per person for the month.
Other notable findings:

97 million viewers watched [...]