Are Twitter users anti-social?
Last week, Internet marketing blog HubSpot released their second State of the Twittersphere report (pdf).
According to HubSpot’s report:

79.79% Twitter users fail to provide a homepage URL
75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile
68.68% have not specified a location
55.50% are not following anyone
54.88% have never tweeted
52.71% have no followers

So - [...]

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 [...]

Podcast advertising revenue is growing, but not as fast as the podcast audience, according to the latest research from ZenithOptimedia.

By 2011, podcast ad spending is expected to grow to $43 million — but that amount comes to less than 0.2% of projected revenue for the total online advertising space.

Will podcast advertising ever catch up with podcast adoption?

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 [...]

Satellite radio network Sirius XM Radio released grim first-quarter results today, with a drop in both subscribers and revenues.
Sirius has recently created a new service that can stream radio content via Apple devices like the iPhone and the iPod Touch, but that innovation may be too little, too late, to staunch the hemorrhage of customers.
In [...]

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 [...]

Business news source Bloomberg reports that, according to sources “with knowledge of the discussions,” streaming video powerhouse Hulu.com, is in talks with record labels to offer music videos on the site. Major music companies Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Group are rumored to be in discussion with the [...]