comScore Releases October 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings

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comScore Video Metrix service showed that 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer.

Other notable findings from October 2011 include:

  • 86.2 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
  • The duration of the average online content video was 5.5 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes.
  • Video ads accounted for 14.9 percent of all videos viewed and 1.4 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.

Wonder how many received this on a desktop PC.

European Parliament warns of global dangers of US domain revocation proposals

This situation is now turning critical, with legislative proposals such as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act claiming worldwide jurisdiction for domain names and IP addresses. The definitions in SOPA are so broad that, ultimately, it could be interpreted in a way that would mean that no online resource in the global Internet would be outside US jurisdiction.