12.7 billion videos viewed online in one month is a mind blowing factoid on its own, but when you start to play with the numbers a little its absolutely astounding.
Let’s say that the average online video was 2 minutes long - that means that US internet users spent 25.4 billion minutes watching online videos in one month.
That’s 423 million hours, 17 million days, 566 months of online videos viewed in the United Stated in one month.
The population of the United States is 303 million, so that means the average American watched 83 minutes of online video in the month of November. With numbers like this its no wonder young bucks will light their hair on fire, throw themselves off a roof and then post it on Youtube.
My co-author on this site, Evan Leeson, has been barking in my ear for years now that “video is king. My witty rebuttal was always: “Yes, but content is searchable.”
Well, I’m changing my tune, content is still king, but I think videos my have just risen to god status.
The first thing you learn in baseball is how to hold the bat (remember to line up your knuckles) and its pretty hard to go any further with the game until you figure this out.
Why do I post so many viral and funny videos on The Meaning of Web? Simple. Because I truly believe that video is king online and there’s nothing better than sitting around watching funny videos.
I don’t know about you but when someone told me years ago that the best way to increase your search engine prominence was inbound links I became more than slightly obsessed. Seriously, some days I would be the online equivalent of a junkie trying to make a score… “hey man, come on I’ll do anything, just gimme the link man, give it to me!”
Luckily I’m at the point where my link addiction is under control, but I still get sucked into reading pretty much any blog post offering the promise of more links. Unfortunately, 9 times out of 10 I’m disappointed with the tactics proposed. Most link-building advice involves way too much time investment for far too little quality links.
But today I found a gem on Matt Cutts blog about a new webmaster tool being offered by Google - this is serious juice for the link addict.
Link Building, Online Statistics, Video, viral videos | Kevin Grandia | 
January 7, 2009 9:46 pm | 
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