35 Hours Of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute

November 15, 2010

From the Official YouTube blog:

Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week. Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days.

YouTube: 35 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute

YouTube: 35 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute

How The Google Display Network Works

November 14, 2010

In this video learn how the Google Display Advertising Network works.

 

Robert Louis Stevenson Google Doodle

November 13, 2010

Google’s pirate-themed doodle today commemorates Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday.

Robert Louis Stevension Google Doodle

Robert Louis Stevension Google Doodle

If the Scottish author known for “Treasure Island,” “Kidnapped” and other classics were still alive today, he’d be 160 years old.

Whoever Controls Twitter Controls The News

November 12, 2010

Apparently when I posted the above on Nielsen’s blog, it was either expunged or deleted so I will say it again here.

http://twitter.com/#!/mattmcgee/status/3142330387275776

 

Nuclear Follow Cost?

November 11, 2010

I noticed on my mobile a Twitter service called Follow Cost and thought I would check it out.

Follow Cost publishes a Twitter account’s average number of updates over time along with a recent updates number.

As you can see below, my average Tweets per day over the life of my Twitter account has been 13.72 Tweets a day while recently my Tweeting frequency has increased to 235.45 Tweets a day.

This in turn has caused Follow Cost to declare following me on Twitter to have a “Nuclear Follow Cost”.

Nuclear Follow Cost

Nuclear Follow Cost

FollowCost.com measures its Twitter following costs in units called Milliscobles.

The definition of a Milliscoble from FollowCost.com

Milliscoble

Milliscoble

With my recent updates score of 11101.1 milliscobles,  I don’t whether I should be alarmed or relieved.

 

 

Google Places: Results Free

November 10, 2010

While playing around with Google Places, I have discovered several types of search queries produce 0 results.

Like this search in Google Places for Google Adwords:

Google Places Results

Google Places Results

I realize Google Adwords isn’t particularly associated with a “Place” per se, but I’m sure delivering a blank search results page is in Google’s or its users best interest.

Google Experiment: Instant Previews

November 9, 2010

Today Google announced yet another new Experiment – Google Instant Previews.

Google Instant Previews

Google Instant Previews

With Google Instant Previews searchers can see a preview from within any search result without having to leave Google.com

Clicking the magnifying glass produces a screen shot of the search results page.

Instant Previews

Instant Previews

To try the latest Google Experiment – Google Instant Previews you will have to start your search from the Google Experiments domain –  http://www.google.com/webhp?esrch=instantpreviews

Will Google AdWords experiment with Instant Preview “Ads” anytime soon?

I don’t think so..

 

Holiday Shopping Research Trends

November 8, 2010

From Google:

Holiday researching is starting earlier and earlier. We’ve been surveying shoppers every 2 weeks to track progress of their holiday shopping and as of October 19:

Holiday Shopping Research

Holiday Shopping Research

Source: Google/Ipsos OTX Consumer Pulse Check

The biggest takeway is that researching/shopping started even earlier than last year. By October 19, 73% of consumers had started researching/shopping vs. 59% in 2009. Purchasing remains more consistent: 51% in 2010 vs. 46% in 2009. Although retailers will see a bulk of their sales in December, consumers are beginning to make decisions about what they are going to buy, and half have already bought a holiday gift.

Why do shoppers begin researching and buying early?

Early Shopper Motives

Early Shopper Motives

Getting ahead of the rush tops the list why shoppers research and buy early according to Google.

Makes sense – what better way for consumers to save time than to research and buy products at the time most convenient to them?

Google X-Ray Doodle

November 7, 2010

On November 8, 2010 Google released a new doodle in celebration of the 115th anniversary of X-rays.

The discovery was made by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, in 1895. X-rays are a form of radiation composed of rays and the most common use is in diagnostic radiography.

Google X-Ray Doodle

Google X-Ray Doodle

Google has transformed its logo into an animation of an x-ray film, which shows Google’s “bones”.

See if you can use your X-ray vision to spot a key, rubber duck and marbles in Google’s X-ray doodle.

 

Google + Democracy + Innovation

November 6, 2010

The following video contains highlights from the “Innovation + Democracy” Google & Politico Event at the Newseum in Washington DC.