comScore has released the latest online video statistics as of April 2010. YouTube continues to be the largest provider of video, garnering 40% of all online video views. That’s what happens when 26 hours of videos are uploaded to a site every minute. Other services continue to try to chip away at YouTube’s lead. A new site, Vevo.com, did make a splash. Started in December 2009, the music video site received about 25% of all Web video … [Read more...]
YouTube Frenzy Swamps Small E-retailer with Orders
A-cappella.com Inc., a small online seller of CDs, DVDs, sheet music, and books for unaccompanied singing groups, discovered the power of viral marketing on the Internet and YouTube this past Christmas—and it’s only just recovered from a “blizzard,” in the description of one A-cappella.com staffer, of orders that ensued. A 1998 video of the Indiana University a cappella group Straight No Chaser singing “The 12 Days of Christmas” that … [Read more...]
