Nieman Foundation at Harvard
David Campbell’s post pulls together some interesting stats on online news consumption, in particular video:
News is a popular category on YouTube (it was the most searched for item in four out of 12 months in 2011)
There is no strict correlation between length of video and popularity — one-third of popular videos were 2-5 minutes in length, and nearly one fifth were longer than 5 mins
Oyala, a large video streaming platform, reported that long form videos of 10 minutes+ accounted for 57% of viewing time on tablets they served
Multimedia completion rates can also be good: MediaStorm says that more than half, and often two-thirds, of those viewing their stories online stay with them to the end, even when stories run up to 20 or more minutes.
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