Posts Tagged ‘Daisy Whitney’

Tips & Statistics On Engaging Online Video Viewers Through Social Media

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This week Daisy Whitney, online video consultant, host of the New Media Minute and author of The Mockingbirds, released a new video called ‘The Social Video Effect’ that’s chock-full of interesting tips and statistics about the effect of social media on the online video world.

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The Real Difference Between YouTube & Hulu

TVWeek’s Daisy Whitney writes about the differing content on video sites YouTube and Hulu:

While music videos, movie trailers and user-created clips and shows remain the most popular categories on YouTube, Hulu is amassing an audience for TV shows and films.

According to the site’s own most-viewed tab for the week ending Dec. 30, the most popular TV shows on Hulu were “Family Guy,” “American Dad,” “Saturday Night Live,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Arrested Development” and “The Office.” None of those shows are top-rated series on-air; “Arrested Development” isn’t even on network TV anymore.

As for the numbers, Whitney reports that in November, YouTube delivered 5.6 billion streams to nearly 85 million unique visitors. Hulu served about 221 million streams to about 7.5 million unique visitors.

Hulu Users ‘Happy But Not Numerous’

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As Daisy Whitney of TelevisionWeek reports, only 15% of online Americans have even heard of Hulu.com, the NBC-Fox online video venture; that’s despite the site’s high-profile in the media industry. However, the few people who use it “like it a lot.”

The report said that Hulu users like the ability to search and find both old episodes of TV shows and recent ones they missed. “Hulu visitors also like that the shows are free and that the service operates as something of an online digital video recorder,” saying that the only thing they don’t like so far is that they can’t watch older episodes of shows.

Interestingly, the report said that Hulu users are “more likely to own laptops, smart phones and video-capable MP3 players than the average online American,” while about 39% of users said they “frequently” pay attention to online ads on the site.