Source favicon22:03 在线视频:内容还是形式? » laolu

16日HitWise的统计中(见下图),可以看到YouTubeMySpace Vids的火爆,甚至连Google也忍不住,把Video搬到了首页默认的第三搜索选项(但在中国还不能播放)。“the next big thing”来了?


1. 在线视频的广告前景

美国在线视频广告的开支,2005,2007,2009,单位:亿美元
 
2005
2007
2009
在线视频广告开支
2.25
6.4
15

视频作为网站内容,如果能吸引到访问量,页面可以放置各种广告。在线视频作为广告载体,也能从电视广告中分得一块。电视广告是一个高达数千亿美元的市场,哪怕分得百分之几,也有数十亿美元之多。

2. 对在线视频的使用

全球利用在线视频内容的家庭及拥有宽带的家庭数量,2005,2010,单位:亿
 
2005
2010
全球利用在线视频内容的家庭数
0.13
1.31
全球拥有宽带的家庭数
1.94
4.13

美国网络用户利用在线视频的情况,2006年2月,单位:受访者%
 
%
知晓在线视频
94%
看过在线视频
69%
每月至少看一次在线视频
46%
每周至少看一次在线视频
24%
每天都在线视频
5%

美国网络用户通过哪类网站收看视频,2006年3月,单位:受访者%
 
%
娱乐网站
42%
门户
33%

3. Burst Media关于购物和在线视频的调查

今年4月,Burst Media发布了一份有关购物和在线视频的报告(PDF文档全文),样本为3766名18岁以上的网络用户。报告的主要内容有:

  • 过半用户把互联网作为产品信息的第一来源。
    57.1%的受访者说,互联网是他们购买的产品或服务的第一信息来源,男性比女性(61.9% vs. 50.3%)倾向更明显。而且,把互联网作为产品研究,因家庭收入而异,家庭收入越高,越倾向利用互联网收集产品信息。
利用互联网收集拟购买产品/服务的用户与其家庭收入的关系,2006年3月,单位:受访者%
家庭收入
利用互联网收集拟购买产品/服务的%
$75,000以上
69.2%
$50,000-74,999
61.3%
$35,000-49,999
58.1%
$35,000以下
50.6%
  • 电视在获得注意力方面最有效。
    49.8%的用户把电视选为获得他们注意力最有效的媒体形式,其后依次是互联网(22.3%)、杂志(11.6%)、报纸(10.3%)和电台(5.9%)。女性比男性(53.9% vs. 45.5%)更多认为电视是获得注意力最有效的媒体,相反,男性比女性(27.1% vs. 17.8%)更多选择互联网是获得注意力最有效的媒体。有31.4%的18-34岁用户,选择互联网是获得注意力最有效的媒体。

  • 认为在线广告是cutting edge、或者比电视上的更好的人并不多。
对在线广告的看法,2006年3月,单位:受访者%
 
%
性别
比在电视、报纸或杂志上的更差
23.6%
22.4%
是电视、报纸或杂志上的重复
42.0%
37.3%
比电视、报纸或杂志上的更好,但还不cutting edge
24.2%
28.7%
是cutting edge的
10.3%
11.6%
  • 一半的受访者在线看过视频广告。
    50.7%的受访者说看过产品或服务的在线视频广告。男性比女性(58.4% vs. 43.4%)更多表示看过。在年龄/性别细分方面,18-34岁的男性表示在线看过广告视频的最多(61.6%)。毫不奇怪,宽带用户比窄带用户表示在线看过视频广告更多(55.3% vs. 43.7%)。表示在线看过视频广告的人中,有40.4%说,他们广告的产生的关注,比在电视上看到的类似广告,要相同或更多。在线看过视频广告的男性用户中,46.3%说会产生相同或更多的注意力,42.1%说产生的注意力更少,另有11.5%不确定。

(ps:Burst Media基本上每月一期的Online Insights,有很多可以看看的。)

(从上面调查看,就广告形式,在线视频并没有比电视等传统媒体形式显得好多少。内容的娱乐性,与电视的差异性,更值得注重,这对在线视频的广告开发会有影响。或者说,目前以在线视频作为内容带动各种广告,比用在线视频这种形式来做广告,也许能有更好的发展,除非有新技术的介入。另外,性别、年龄细分的影响不是很小,宽带与否倒似乎影响不是很大。)

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Source favicon21:45 Google中名字和Blog的关联 » 刻录事
Tick在Google中搜索自己的名字(不是英文名字),惊讶的发现自己的Blog排在第一位。一向很注意自己个人信息保护得tick从来没有在自己的Blog上写过名字。 那么,Google怎么知道tickwang.com就是他呢? 我想这应该和Google的算法相关。在SEO中,常可以看到这条建议: 做友情连接的时候,最好是让对方用你指定的包含所需关键词的文字作为链接的文本,这会提高自己的网站在该关键词搜索结果中的排名。 举个例子,大家在提到www.wealink.com的时候,如果都用若邻为连接文本,以www.wealink.com为超链接,当越来越多人提到若邻,越来越多网站链接wealink的时候,可以想象到,在Google中搜索若邻,得到的第一个结果应该是www.wealink.com。因为Google把这个链接和文本对应起来了。 同理,当人们提到郑云深的时候,总用www.klogs.org作为链接,久而久之,Google就理所当然地认为郑云深的内容就是在klogs.org,这是没错的。 回到tick的例子,我想应该是有不少人提到tick中文名字的时候,用了www.tickwang.com做链接才有的结果。 Google搜索算法中的这个特点,其实也契合了现实中自我的社会性:我不仅仅是我所表现的,也是其他人所认为的,这也就是为什么tick没有在自己的blog中提到名字,却有tickwang.com对应名字的结果,因为来自社会的“计算”决定了这个事实,它和你所表现的,是同一个东西: “我”的形象中,有一部分来自社会,使自己无法控制的。 补充:tick不认同我的解释,因为tick“用google搜了我的名字,只有2页, 里面没有任何人用我的名字作link,奇怪的很“。 看来得再找找原因。
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Source favicon09:29 Calendar and Notifier for the Mac » Official Google Blog




Creating a better user experience for Google Calendar on a Mac was my first project at Google. So I'm excited to tell you that Google Calendar now works great in Safari, and we've just launched a major Mac-only upgrade for the Gmail Notifier.



The Google Notifier for the Mac has:

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By the way, since we put this out there last Friday, we've already received a lot of feedback, which we've used to fix some bugs. So keep the comments coming! We want to make the Google Notifier even better.
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But these days, people aren't only getting video from their TV -- plenty are watching online. And where do they watch this great content? Anywhere they can find it. That's why we've teamed up with MTV to make its quality content available to our vast network of AdSense sites.

So now when you visit places like BabyNames.com and Fan-Sites.org, you may see clips you can play from MTV, VH1, LOGO, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central - clips that these sites' visitors would be most interested in. If you're a site owner, stay tuned as we expand this program. And if you like video, go get your MTV. It's fresh, and it's free.
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As a teen in Cairo, I grew up knowing the area called Ramses Square. At that time the statue of Ramses II could be seen from miles away and was one of the city center's attractions. Over the years the king became surrounded by fly-overs, steel walkways and an underground station.



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