According to the latest YouTube stats, NBC has caught up with CBS on total daily page views (*) at YouTube.
From the category archives:
Ratings Analysis
Upstart media-research company erinMedia takes on ratings giant Nielsen.
Reading recommendations for today:
A couple of articles found on the MediaPost Publications website (registration is needed. For quick login credentials, visit BugMeNot).
SMG Exec: Don’t Bet On Pre-Roll
Don’t you just hate having to sit through a 30 second commercial just to watch a short internet video clip? The pre-roll ad (forcing the viewer to watch a [...]
The Problem
Users of internet video websites trick the system to inflate the number of views recorded for a particular video. They may do this by setting several browser windows to auto-refresh on their video’s web page, or rigging a number of different computers to do the same thing, over and over again. A group of [...]
I’ve been compiling data since CBS published their press release about their first month on YouTube. Here are some charts with the Top 15 videos from the CBS channel on YouTube. I began gathering data on November 21 and have charted the week from Nov. 22nd to Nov.28 (inclusive).
A number of interesting articles and a recap of CBS|YouTube numbers for the last week.
A recap of recent articles on the blog to welcome new readers.
An analysis of CBS’s first month on YouTube, including an investigation on the viral growth of several CBS shows.
Google Video begins showing historical data for each video. My observations on this and what’s still missing (hint: a lot).
About eight years ago, I was analyzing television ratings at a leading network in Venezuela… when I came up with the following graph (see below). Rendering took forever in Excel, but the resulting image was not only beautiful, but highly informative. Have a look.
