Leadership
Rick Boucher
Honorary Chairman
Bruce P. Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Jamal Simmons
Co-Chairman
Tracey Sawicki
Executive Director
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Compared to last year’s results, real-time entertainment traffic (streaming audio and video, peercasting, place-shifting, Flash video) has exploded to now account for 26.6 percent of total traffic in 2009, up from 12.6 percent in 2008.
By 2015, video will account for half of all mobile broadband traffic, and 53% by 2017. This is up from a third in 2009.
In the rest of the world, the sheer amount of data video users will consume – made available through legal sources such as Hulu and Project Canvas – should be of concern to mobile broadband providers.
North America will account for only 14% of video consumption, where Asia Pacific will consume 53%. Europe will account for 26%.
Nearly three quarters (1.3 exabytes) of [new broadband traffic] will be video traffic – a CAGR of 64% over 2009.
Approximately 136 million people in the U.S. watched online videos in July, a 14% increase from the year-earlier period, according to Nielsen Co.
In July 2009, 158 million U.S. Internet users viewed more than 21 billion online videos, and last year YouTube alone dwarfed the bandwidth that the entire Internet consumed in the year 2000.
comScore reported that NBC and Fox’s free online TV venture Hulu attracted 38 million viewers in July.
Approximately 136 million people in the U.S. watched online videos in July, a 14% increase from the year-earlier period, according to Nielsen Co.
About 15% of the 25 million U.S. smart-phone users access social-networking Web sites “almost every day,” compared with about 3.6% of users of more basic “feature phones,” according to comScore M:Metrics Inc.