New Numbers:

According to research firm comScore’s Video Metrix report for July 2007, Us Internet users watch an average of three hours of online video per month. Google Sites topped the July stats for both the most unique video viewers and most videos viewed over the month.

No Surprise - Google Dominates Online Video:

July saw Americans view more than 9 billion videos online, with Google Sites once again ranking as the top U.S. video property with nearly 2.5 billion videos viewed (27.0 percent share of videos), 2.4 billion of which occurred at YouTube.com. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 390 million (4.3 percent), followed by Fox Interactive Media with 298 million (3.3 percent) and Viacom Digital with 281 million (3.1 percent).

In total, nearly 134 million Americans viewed online video in July, or approximately three in four U.S. Internet users. Google Sites also captured the largest online video audience with 67.8 million unique viewers, followed by Fox Interactive Media with 35.8 million and Yahoo! Sites with 35.3 million.

Other Highlights:

• Online viewers watched an average of more than three hours of online video during the month (181 minutes).
• The average online video duration was 2.7 minutes.
• Nearly three out of four (74.2 percent) U.S. Internet users viewed video online.
• More than one out of three (36.7 percent) U.S. Internet users viewed video on YouTube.com.
• The average online video viewer watched 68 videos, or more than two per day.

What does this all mean in practicality? Video is here to stay online, and growing just as expected...with the big player(s) in this space dominating - as expected. If you're still personally questioning the viability of online video in reference to your own online marketing needs, well...you probably shouldn't be!

Things are certainly evolving over here, and our range of services is about to expand dramatically over the coming months. In a nutshell, we're in the process of teaming up with some of the best real estate videographers across the country in order to provide you with our top-notch local video tour filming and production services, wherever you are.

If you've been thinking about using video for your listings and want a solid, stable solution that you can trust, we're working on it! Our growing network of professional and affordable real estate videographers will be coming to a city near you very soon to shoot your listings...right where they live.

We're working to build the web's first premim end-to-end solution for producing and delivering your real estate video listings across the web. That's the goal. To make things even sweeter, every video our team shoots will be supported by our unparalleled hosting, web distribution, and delivery backbone. We're going to give you all that you need to start listing with real video...and also make sure you that you get the biggest return possible from your video listings online.

If this post seems a bit, well...'pumped', then I apologize in advance...really! I'm just genuinely excited about where things are headed, and wanted to share. Thanks for listening. =]

If you want to hear more about our forthcoming local video solutions or find out when we'll be launching in your neck of the woods, drop us your info and we'll let you know when we do. Thanks!

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