Video content via alternative sources seems to be taking off pretty well. People seem to getting into watching online video content. According to a survey done by Internet measurement firm comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed online videos 10.1 billion in February, which is up 66 percent from last year. Google’s YouTube gathered most of the traffic with 34 percent of the viewers.
With content being so readily available now all over the internet I personally believe that people will tend to view things more and more via the internet. With the internet things are available on demand thus you can gain access to multiple types of content. I mean you can watch TV show episodes that you possibly missed, movies, or even special content like on YouTube. All the major corporations such as NBC, CBS, ABC have their TV shows available online with other internet special content.
For the month of February of the measurement there were around 135 million internet users who spent an average of 204 minutes of viewing online. The top 10 sites that users view internet video content are—Google (1) with YouTube, Fox Interactive Media (2) with Myspace.com, Yahoo (3), Microsoft (4), Viacom Digital (5), Time Warner (6), Disney Online (7), AOL (8), ABC.com (9), and Comcast (10).
All these companies provide many types to media and entertainment varieties to people. I think the internet media world will become a primary source for people to watch shows, serve as an entertain media, and overall just provide us with content. The internet just seems to be ever expanding right now and I think the video content aspect will only continue to grow in many ways.
This can be seen in my opinion by the new sites and content being produced and started up. For example Hulu.com recently opened letting internet users gain access to some movies and television shows. Also Adobe just recently decided to launch a media player themselves. Adobe’s media player is said to be full of content from MTV, CBS, and Universal Music group. It can be downloaded at Adobe.com/go/mp.
Video content seems just to be a really popular thing, with many people; I know that I readily view internet videos. Also according to CTAM they believe up to 44 percent of teens view online video content. I would argue that this figure is actually more because all the people that I know that are teenagers like my sister and her friends all view online videos all the time.
Internet video continues to gain popularity and become wide in variety. How will the internet video content expand more and affect media? That’s a good question, and I really don’t if I know if I can answer it. But it will be interesting to see what happens.