Category Archives: video measurement

Online Video Publishers: How well do you know your audience?

As online video grows in popularity, so does the need for publishers to know their audience. So, I ask you-how well do you know your audience?
Let’s get down to the basics-according to comScore there are currently about 13.5 million people watching online video with an average of 17 hours each per month. Granted, this is [...]

Limelight Video Platform Partners with Kantar for Videolytics Platform

Limelight Video Platform (LVP) is excited to announce a partnership with Kantar Video, a division of WPP Group, by supporting the upcoming Kantar Videolytics Platform. Videolytics provides robust analytics, tracking, and optimization data on a global level.  Limelight Video Platform Vice President and General Manager Alex Castro says that the Videolytics Platform will provide LVP customers with deep [...]

New Reports Help To Increase Video Viewer Engagement

We are pleased to announce new analytics reports that will help video publishers increase viewer engagement. The new engagement reports will provide detailed viewing metrics for each video such as viewer drop-offs, attention span and viewership by geography.
Drop-Off report: Available now, this report illustrates how many viewers/views each section of the video has at any [...]

Dynamic Streaming of Video Provides Best Viewing Experience

We’ve all experienced videos skipping or stalling mid-roll while the rest of the video loads because your connection speed became slow or you moved out of wireless range–how annoying is that! Did you know that Delve Networks has support for Dynamic Streaming of video which provides an even better viewing experience on our platform.
With dynamic streaming of [...]

Lies, Damn Lies, and Video Metrics

This week, ComScore came out with online metrics for May. Here are some of the highlights:

12 billion videos were viewed during the month of May in the US
This represents an increase of 45% compared to a year ago
Google sites (mostly YouTube) represents 34.58% of all videos watched
There is a huge drop-off from there, with Fox [...]