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By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search since 2004

A LOT of people are watching videos on the Web!

Tuesday March 4, 2008
If you're like more than half of all the people in the United States, you're going to watch at least one video on the Web this year:

eMarketer predicts that 52.5 percent of all Americans (154 million people) will watch online video in 2008 and 80 percent of U.S. Internet users will watch an online video at least once a month this year as well. The audience for online videos is expected to grow to 190 million by 2012. Clips remain the most popular thing to watch online, with 40 percent of the online video audience watching short form content like news, music videos and movie trailers that are five minutes or less. - source

Where do you find these videos? Here's a few places to start:
  • Ever wonder what the most popular video sites on the Web are? Well, today is your lucky day! Here are the top ten most popular video sites on the web - you'll be able to use these sites to find all sorts of free videos, movies, and documentaries, as well as short films, viral videos, and much more.
  • The Web is a great place to find free multimedia of all kinds on the Web: free movie downloads, free videos, free music: you name the multimedia, you can probably find it (for free!) online. Subscribe to my free Find Multimedia on the Web e-course to learn just how easy it is to find free multimedia on the Web.
  • Here are the Top Twenty Viral Videos of 2007: the videos that were passed around and watched more than any other video on the Web for one reason or another: perhaps they were extremely odd, or featured some incredible performance, or just made you feel all warm and squishy inside. From Chris Crocker and the Dramatic Prairie Dog, to Miss Teen South Carolina and OK Go, we saw a LOT of very interesting videos in 2007.
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