Last year, we took a look at some amazing YouTube statistics .

Another interesting piece of the Recent FreeWheel Video Monetization Report for Q1 2012 was the number of ads viewed in the quarter. Generally, after the major shopping season (read the holidays) winds down a lot of industries will move toward a slump of inactivity

I was just perusing a report from FreeWheel that pertains to online video monetization for Q1 2012 and there were some surprising things in it. For example, mid-roll video ad placements are on the rise, but mostly due to more long form video content being available, not because they’re more effective, etc. Right now, I’m in the planning stages of my own original web series and length of each episode was a topic of discussion with the team (really, there’s just two of us at present)

We all are a bit guilty of checking out a video’s view count and using it as its one and only metric for success.

I stumbled upon a pretty cool infographic from Nielsen I thought I would share. It takes a look at media consumption on each screen for the past few quarters. There’s nothing alarming here, TV took a small dip and in 2011 vs 2010 and other stuff increased.

comScore’s recently published statistics for online video viewing and video ad exposure in the Europe reveals the biggest growth lies in video ad consumption in the UK

So many changes to keep up with at YouTube lately, but don’t worry — we got you covered! This week on The Reel Web we summarize a lot of the changes happening at YouTube, including the algorithm changes to how related and recommended videos are chosen and shown. We also take a look at the new YouTube video player that will be coming out sometime soon, and some of the statistics surrounding the new design changes to YouTube channels

There's a lot of statistics to cover this week since several reports coming out about online viewership last month in January, so we take a quick glance at some of those.

I like analytics, analytics are cool. If they were a hat they'd be a fez, because fezzes are cool.

We've posted a lot of great infographics over the years. The format, which typically combines statistical information in a fun animated layout, is very popular. People enjoy learning important statistics, but no one wants to feel like their in school