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From Redbox and Verizon teaming up to take on Netflix to Connected TV and Netflix’s premier of Lillyhammer, offering consumers video content where and when they want it is no longer just a second thought. Serving content across platforms has become essential for publishers and brands that want to grow their audiences and earn more revenue with online video.
Ooyala, the online video provider, today released its fourth quarter review of web video, in which it analyzes the viewing behavior of 100 million monthly unique users. (You can find the full report here.)
As we learned in Q3, the rabid adoption of mobile devices has been leading to increased engagement with online video. Not only that, but connected TVs are really beginning to make waves, Google TV in particular. Ooyala’s report found that video plays on tablets, mobile devices, and connected TVs nearly doubled in the fourth quarter (from Q3).
What’s more, viewers are now twice as likely to compete a video when watching on a tablet or connected TV, as compared to watching video on a desktop. And, unsurprisingly, when viewers plop down on their couch in front of their connected TV, they’re watching four times as many long videos compared to short videos, as videos longer than 10 minutes now account for more than half the hours played on connected TVs.
While the average conversion rate across all devices increased from 35.1 percent in Q3 to 39.6 percent in Q4 (with viewers watching longer on all platforms), it seems that connected TVs saw the biggest growth in Q4, as their viewers proved to be the most engaged of all the platforms, completing videos at a rate of 47 percent (with tablet viewers following close behind at 38 percent.)
What’s more, users of connected TV devices and gaming consoles were 70 percent more likely to watch three-quarters of a video. And, in terms of name brands in connected TVs, Google TV’s share of video plays increased by 91 percent this quarter.
Tablet viewers were the most engaged in Q3, and they certainly remained an attentive audience in Q4, proving to be 45 percent more likely to complete three-quarters of a video than those watching on a desktop. Not only that, but tablet viewers watched 21.9 percent longer per video in Q4 than the prior quarter.
Another interesting tidbit from Ooyala: Though this may not be particularly surprising, Facebook remains a much more active source of online video sharing than Twitter: For every video shared via Twitter in Q4, more than 10 were shared on Facebook.
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The Apple iPad, formerly referred to as the Apple Tablet, is a touch-pad tablet computer announced in January 2010, and released in April 2010. It has internet capabilities running on either WiFi or 3G, and offers an optional dock with a full size mechanical keyboard. The 3G is provided by AT&T, but comes unlocked with microsim cards on the GSM network. The 3G does not require a long-term contract. The iPad is a line of tablet...
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Link TV, independent broadcaster of global affairs based in San Francisco, appointed Paul Mason president and CEO. Mason is a 28-year, Emmy Award-winning veteran of ABC News.
Stella & Dot, a fashion accessories brand based in San Bruno, named Anna Fieler chief marketing officer. Fieler joined Stella & Dot from Shutterfly, where she was vice president of marketing for its premium brand Tiny Prints.
In addition, Leslie Blodgett, executive chairman of Bare Escentuals, joined Stella & Dot's board of directors.
Ovidian Group hired Robert Saltzberg as managing director. He is a former partner of Morrison & Foerster in its San Francisco office. He is based in the Berkeley office.
Accuray Inc., a radiation oncology company located in Sunnyvale, hired Kelly Londy as senior vice president and chief commercial officer. Before joining Accuray, Londy was vice president and general manager of molecular imaging at GE Healthcare North America.
Rick Fawcett joined RichRelevance, based in San Francisco, as senior vice president of sales. Diane Kegley, former vice president of marketing, was named chief marketing officer. Previously, Fawcett was senior vice president of sales for Origin Digital.
Xignite Inc., a cloud services provider of on-demand financial market data based in San Mateo, named Peter Caswell, CEO of NetBase, its chairman of the board. Caswell is a former president and CEO of Advent Software.
Xignite Inc. also hired Cameron Karr as vice president of customer success. Prior to Xignite, Karr was a sales and marketing executive at MarketTools.
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, a labor and employment law firm, welcomed Benjamin Delancy as a shareholder. Delancy is based in the firm's Washington and San Francisco offices. Delancy was a partner at Morgan Lewis.
Michael Notaro of Alameda was chosen by the members of Toastmasters International to be the group's international president for a term of one year. He is an attorney and principal of the Notaro Law Group in Alameda.
Dr. Nancy Donaldson was awarded the 2011 Excellence in Leadership Award from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. Donaldson is chairwoman and chief scientist for Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes, which is located in San Ramon.
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Learning about the academic and military origins of the Internet as a way to keep communicating, even after a nuclear event, thrilled me as a teenager back in the '90s. And yet the Egyptian government shut the Internet down last year.
Techno-geek activists around the world want to prevent that from happening again.
Flipping the Internet switch in Egypt only took several phone calls and about half an hour to do. In the current issue of Scientific American, writer Julian Dibbell takes a closer look at activists in Vienna, Washington, D.C., and New York who are creating a shadow Internet.
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"The Internet’s explosive growth," Dibbell wrote, "has not added new routes to the network map so much as it has added cul-de-sacs, turning ISPs and other traffic aggregators into focal points of control over the hundreds of millions of nodes they serve." Internet service providers, therefore, become the kill switch.
To bring the Internet back to its original aims, activists are setting up local, decentralized "mesh networks" by installing wireless routers on rooftops. Each user can send and relay information on behalf of other users, Dibbell explained. Projects such as Commotion Wireless and FreedomBox want to get affordable, easy-to-install equipment out there to make more of these networks, increasing the number of nodes.
Since mesh networks still ultimately connect back to an ISP, shutdown will still affect the network, slowing communications down. However, as Dibbell noted, the mesh "shadow" network would continue to route information around primary hubs. At worst it would be like an Internet brownout, instead of a blackout. The more nodes in the mesh network, the harder it will be to kill.
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Mesh networks aren't an easy answer, either, because they require regular folks to become technogeeks. They also pose some interesting privacy and legal questions. But the beauty is that all kinds of hardware, including smart phones, could be equipped with emergency mesh networking capabilities.
Back in the dawn of the dial-up era, I read an article in Wired about Serbian student activists using smuggled equipment, shaky Internet access and mirror sites to fight the Milosevic regime and get their stories out. Inspired, I emailed myself, starting new friendships that continue to this day as well as a new respect for the power of DIY technology.
When it comes to Internet access, where there's a will, there should be a way.
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