[comScore] -- According to the latest stats by comScore, U.S. Internet users watched 13.5 billion online videos in October 2008, which was a 45 percent year-over-year increase. The average duration of videos watched was also up, 3 minutes per video in comparison with September's stats of the average duration of 2.7 minutes. YouTube, which serves 68% of all viewers (99.5 million), continues to dominate the field while Hulu is the rising star jumping up to 6th position on the board with nearly ...

Personnel from Mogulus discovered Saturday that YouTube Live live concert event was streamed by Akamai's CDN (Content Delivery Network). By monitoring live stream metrics for full network published by Akamai, they found at the peak of the event at 9:10 EST YouTube Live served about 700,000 concurrent viewers. This is an excellent result for YouTube's first live streaming event indicating great potential of live streaming for the internet. Google, though having its own very good CDN for text/image contents, has to rely ...