Americans prefer video to national parks: study
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Americans are less interested in  spending time in natural surroundings like national parks  because they are spending more time watching television,  playing video games and surfing the Internet, according to a  study released on Tuesday.
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Shorter is better on the web A survey of US internet users shows that while video content is popular, films are not. Only 5% of those who regularly watch video content on the internet have sat through a whole film sitting at their desk.â¦
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Nearly half of people who regularly watch online video spend less time watching TV, a survey suggests.
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PENSIONERS now prefer surfing the Net to gardening, DIY or going for walks, according to a survey yesterday.   It found that using the computer is the favourite pastime for four out of ten retired people, who typically spend an hour a day at the screen.
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People in the U.K. spend more time online than the rest of Europe or the U.S., a new study finds.
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More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released Wednesday.Twenty-nine percent of those surveyed said Internet video should be regulated just like television content, and another 24 percent said the U.S. government should institute an online rating system similar to the one used by the movie industry, according to the poll, commissioned by 463 Communications, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm that specializes in high-tech issues.Only 36 percent of respondents agreed that government regulation of Internet video would raise constitutional issues. &quot;I was really shocked that people look at the Internet the same way they look at TV,&quot; said Tom Galvin, a partner at 463. &quot;People see [online video] as spiraling out of control, and they want government to do something about it.&quot;Galvin called that attitude &quot;a bit scary.&quot;Only 33 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds supported government regulations of video content, while 72 percent of those over 70 years of age did.The question about government regulation was one of several that&#160;463 asked in its poll about Internet attitudes, conducted by Zogby International. The two companies work together on periodic polls asking &quot;quirky&quot; questions about technology and the Internet, Galvin said.Only 11 percent of the survey respondents said they would want to have a device to access the Internet implanted in their brains. Perhaps not surprisingly, more men than women wanted that device.However, nearly one in five of those responding would be fine with inserting a tracking chip into a child 13 or younger to help track them if they were lost, abducted, or &quot;just tend not to be where they are supposed to be,&quot; 463 said. There was no difference in opinion among parents who had younger children and those who did not.The poll also tackled religion, with few of the respondents saying they thought the Internet has had an effect on their relationship with God. Ten percent said it made them closer to God, while 6 percent said it made them more distant. Those numbers were about double for people who called themselves &quot;born again.&quot;Galvin was surprised those numbers were so low, with all of the information about religion online and all the potential temptations there as well. &quot;It&#39;s kind of the vice and virtue part of it,&quot; he said.Other poll results:-- Twenty-four percent of U.S. residents said the Internet can serve as a substitute for a spouse or other significant relationship.-- More than one in four respondents had a social-networking profile on sites such as MySpace or Facebook. And 78 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds had a social-networking profile.-- Apple&#39;s new iPhone is pretty sexy -- 6 percent of respondents listed it as&#160;sexiest among a list of celebrities. But actors Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, and Patrick Dempsey all beat the iPhone on the sexy scale. New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter tied the iPhone.-- More than one in five respondents said they&#39;d be willing to change their name and sell their old one to someone else for $100,000.The poll of more than 9,500 U.S. adults was done in early October.
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Los Angeles - American mothers enjoy sex and watching television on their own more than dealing with their children, a study released on Friday showed.
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In its latest study of Americans&#39; online habits, the Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project found that a substantial chunk of internet users want to voice their opinions online.
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(InfoWorld) - People in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend watching videos online and Google's YouTube remains by far their preferred video site, according to a study. In July, almost 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched videos online, up from 71.4 percent in March, according to comScore Networks. The monthly time spent watching videos went up to an average of 181 minutes per viewer in July from 145 minutes per viewer in March, according to comScore. People in the U.S. are also watching more video clips. In July, the average user watched 68 clips, up from 55 clips in March. Overall, almost 134 million U.S. Internet users watched a little over 9 billion video clips in July, up from 126.6 million people and a little over 7 billion clips in March. In July, Google ranked as the top provider of video clips, serving up 27 percent of the total -- almost 2.5 billion clips -- most of them via YouTube, comScore said. Yahoo nabbed a distant second place, serving up 4.3 percent of the clips. Fox Interactive Media, the News Corp. Internet division that includes MySpace.com, came in third with 3.3 percent. Viacom (3.1 percent) and Disney (2 percent) rounded out the top five. Google also ranked first in July in unique video viewers with almost 68 million, followed by Fox Interactive (35.8 million), Yahoo (35.3 million), Time Warner (26.6 million), and Viacom (22.6 million), comScore said. After years of unfulfilled promises, online video has taken off in a big way in the past year and a half, rapidly accelerating its momentum across a wide variety of sites. The revolution is widely credited to YouTube and its video-sharing format, but now companies are prominently featuring videos in portals, news sites, blogs, social networks, online stores, and film and television industry sites. YouTube's popularity can be attributed to several factors, including its ease of use forÂ bothÂ viewers and uploaders; a strong community of millions of people who submit, view, and share personal videos; and an abundance of commercial clips from movies and television. It is this last component of its popularity -- the commercial clips -- that have put YouTube at the center of the Internet industry's struggle with video copyright protection because many of those videos are copied and uploaded without their owners' permission. A landmark legal action is currently under way, asÂ Viacom pursues a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google over the unauthorized appearance of its clips on YouTube. In addition to copyright, other technical and operational issues are in flux, such as the options for generating revenue from video content, the best ways to use video for online advertising, and the different alternatives of delivering the clips to viewers. Another area of interest are video search engines, as well as alternate devices for online video beyond the PC, from small ones like cell phones to large ones like living-room home entertainment centers. For example, currently the Web seems a vehicle primarily for short video clips as evidenced by comScore's finding that the average video clip duration in July was 2.7 minutes.
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A new poll of people's favorite works of U.S. architecture shows that Americans are open to the new, but prefer works that are more comforting than challenging
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By McGuire, Craig  VNRs, b-roll, and other broadcast PR content can also go to traditional media sites. By Craig McGuire  A decade ago, perhaps one in 50 Americans sought their news online.
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Sony's trying to encourage sales. But do consumers care about video?
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Nearly half of Americans who use the Internet have used a video-sharing site such as YouTube, and daily traffic to watch or post video doubled last year, a new survey finds.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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It is safe to say that a world without safe, abundant and easily accessible water is hard for most Americans to imagine. The same goes for life without private, relatively clean places in which to go to the toilet.
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WINTHROP, Wash., Sept. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- With summer quickly becoming a lingering memory, many families are faced with the decision of how to preserve and share the video they collected over their break.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  A new study by the U.S.