Online video: time spent up 71%

“Visitors to video sites now exceeds users of Web-based e-mail, according to a report released today by The Nielsen Company…Nielsen released a report which tracks Web use in the U.S. since 2003…

• The number of American users frequenting online video destinations has climbed 339 percent since 2003.
• Time spent on video sites has shot up almost 2,000 percent over the same period.
• In the last year alone, unique viewers of online video grew 10 percent, the number of streams grew 41 percent, the streams per user grew 27 percent and the total minutes engaged with online video grew 71 percent.” beet.tv ...more