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Online Video’s Appeal Is Often Comic

Teddy Wayne, New York Times

Jun 27, 2010

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Men are more likely to watch online video than women, as are younger, better-educated and wealthier Internet users. Bridging wide gaps from 2007, nearly as many users 30 to 49 and women have now uploaded a video as have younger users and men...

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Pew Study: More Americans Watching, Sharing Online Video | Video

Hari Sreenivasan, PBS NewsHour

Jun 3, 2010

Much like you're likely about to do, more Americans are watching online video, a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found.

Kristen Purcell, associate director for research, stopped by The Rundown to discuss the ke...

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Funny Videos Overtake News in Online Viewing, Survey Finds

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The Wall Street Journal | Digits

Jun 3, 2010

Comedy and humor has overtaken news as the most-watched type of video online, according to a study from the Pew Research Center released Thursday. Half of respondents to the center’s survey watched funny videos online, up from 31% in 2007. News was t...

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The State of Online Video

Jun 3, 2010Kristen Purcell

69% of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video, with 18-29 year-olds leading the way. Comedy has supplanted news as the most viewed type of video online.

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Use of cell phone for pictures and video popular across age groups

Apr 20, 2010

The percentage of teen cell phone owners who have done the following activities with their cell phones, by age.

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For young activists, video is their voice

Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

Mar 5, 2010

When Elisa Kreisinger wanted to protest the newly diminished visibility of gay characters and story lines on television, she didn’t launch a petition drive or write an angry op-ed piece. Instead, like many other members of the YouTube generation for ...

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As Data Flows In, the Dollars Flow Out

Jenna Wortham, New York Times

Feb 8, 2010

For many people, the subscriptions and services for entertainment and communications, which are more often now one and the same, have become indispensable necessities of life, on par with electricity, water and groceries. And for every new device, th...

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Video chat gets an upgrade

Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News

Oct 2, 2009

For decades, ever since Dick Tracy made calls through the video screen on his wristwatch, video chat has been a personal technology everybody could imagine using, but that — for an array of technology, standardization and sociological reasons — few h...

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Videogames now outperform Hollywood movies

Tom Chatfield, The Observer

Sep 27, 2009

The videogame industry is an area in which consumers are voting with their wallets and their eyeballs: audiences, according to recent surveys such as the Pew Internet & American Life Project, are increasingly switching off their televisions and aband...

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Big screen vs. small: Cinemas get a remake to compete for growing ranks of online video fans

Martha Irvine, Associated Press

Aug 28, 2009

CHICAGO (AP) — Today, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O'Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but is often just as happy to hunker down on a bed or a couch with friends to watch a d...

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