If you guessed YouTube.com, you’d be wrong according to recent statistics. Here at Watch.tv we’re proud to say that honor is reserved for the live streaming sites like Justin.tv and UStream.tv. YouTube has about 24 hours of video uploaded per minute. But, Justin.tv claims 30 hours and Ustream.tv claims over 53 hours per minute according … [Read more]
HTML5: Understanding the Video Standards Landscape
Our guest blogger today is a repeat visitor – Professor Karthik Shyamsunder. As HTML5 is in the news a bit lately, we thought we’d follow up with some more thoughts on the topic. In my previous blog post, I discussed the new tag, its usage, and how we are going to have native tags on … [Read more]
Video Vignettes Roundup: May 7
Google TV in the works? — The Wall Street Journal (and about everyone that guesses on these things) thinks so. They may (or may not) show it off at their I/O conference May 19 and 20 for developers in SF. It’s expected to be on Android and will leverage the wider development community for applications. … [Read more]
Heading to NYC for Streaming Media East
Next week this time I’ll be attending Streaming Media East in NYC. Should anyone reading this blog also be attending and want to catch up, please let me know. I look forward to catching up with old colleagues and learning new things. Looking over the sponsors, presenters and exhibitors; I think it’s telling that it’s … [Read more]
Video Viewing in the US For February 2010
comScore’s US video numbers came out today for February 2010. I took the liberty of digging up February 2009′s numbers and did a quick comparison between the two. Here are some things I found of interest when looking year over year: The duration of the average online video rose 23% in a year to 4.3 … [Read more]