comScore Video Metrix today announced that more than 174 million U.S. Internet users watched 28.1 billion videos online in February 2010.
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That’s more Americans than watched the Super Bowl that month.
A record 106.5 million people watched the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV on CBS, according to Nielsen. That’s not only the biggest audience to date for the Super Bowl, but the biggest audience for a televised event in the U.S. ever — knocking off the finale of “MASH” on CBS, which averaged almost 106 million viewers when it ran back in 1983.
Hot on the heels of launching a music video search last month, Yahoo! is expanding their foray into entertainment video search by adding TV Series and Popular Movie Actor refiners.
TV Series refiners allow you to filter by main characters, popular episodes, and seasons. Just search the name of the TV series and then look for the refinements on the left sidebar:
The Popular Movie Actor refiner allows you to filter by film:
It’s no secret that music searches comprise a large number of searches on the web today. That’s why the music search wars have heated up in recent weeks with rumors and announcements surrounding efforts by Google, Facebook, and MySpace.
Yahoo! has been a player in music search for a long time, but now they’re amping up their game with music video search. They’re including a special section on the left sidebar to help you filter results.
Yahoo! has introduced a somewhat controversial feature into their video search: inline viewing. The feature allows searchers to view videos directly on the search results page instead of taking them to the site where the video is hosted.
Of course, if you are one of those sites, you want that traffic to your site. But with the large number of videos that are embeddable, it means that videos are being viewed off-site anyway.
If you want to use the inline viewing feature, simply click “Play Now” under the thumbnail of the video search result you wish to see. A larger overlay window will appear, containing the selected video.
