ComScore recently released data from their online video measurement service, indicating that 23.2 million French Internet users viewed 2.1 billion videos online in January 2008. That number of 23.2 million viewers makes up for 79.5 percent of the total French Internet audience.
So almost 80 percent of the French Internet users watched on average 90 videos in one month. The average video had a duration of four minutes. Please let me get this straight, January is a dark and cold month, Christmas is over and spring is far away, but… 90 videos?! Does French television programs suck that bad?
Although Google has the largest share in the French online video market (28.8 percent), French viewers watched a total of 28 million hours of online video on Dailymotion.com, more than any other site. So we’ve got a classic chicken and the egg story here. What came first? Are the French watching billion of videos online because of the successful video site Dailymotion? Or is Paris-based Dailymotion such a success because French people watch billions of videos?
I think one of the key reason video is so successfull in FR is that DSL / broadband connection is really cheap. With €30 euros a month, you can get near 20M connection. So TV over IP, VOD is really great for this price.
Korea, France: it is nice to know what is going on outside the US. Most of the tech blogs I read stick to the US with an occasional reference elsewhere — such as half of YouTube downloads go outside the US. Where do they go? There is no mention. Global means global.
In Sweden DSL / broadband connection is appr €25 a month, sometimes even cheaper. It would be interesting to know the time spent on video sites for Sweden.
Hi Bob,
what tech sites do you like, reviews etc? I also like to know what is going on around the world other than UK and US and use a site called viewmy.tv to watch live free TV from loads of countries across the world. This site has everything, but espcially great news channels and entertianment channels. its free so check it out, someone notifed me about it on tech site T3 and I use it all the time now!