Video Tops P2P Filesharing Traffic: Cisco

Content providers may have finally found a way to battle peer-to-peer file sharing: by making their content easily available online. That’s one possible takeaway from Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index, which found that video now accounts for more than one-quarter of all network traffic worldwide. That means video is now the largest portion of all data that runs across the Internet, topping peer-to-peer traffic for the first time.

Video traffic, which includes streaming, Flash video and streaming via peer-to-peer technology, made up 26 percent of data traffic worldwide, according to Cisco, compared with the 25 percent of traffic made up of P2P file-sharing. That’s a dramatic reversal from last year, when P2P accounted for 38 percent of worldwide data traffic. It’s not that P2P usage is shrinking, but that video consumption is growing that much faster.

Not just that, but video makes up one-third of all data traffic delivered from the top 50 websites globally, and Cisco says video sites dominate the top 100 websites by traffic volume worldwide. The trend is particularly strong in North America, where 60 percent of the top 100 sites are either video or gaming sites.

That said, while P2P traffic tends to be fairly flat throughout the day, video traffic is extremely volatile. Online video traffic hits its peak between the hours of 9:00 pm and midnight worldwide, when it makes up around 28-29 percent of total data traffic. According to the report:

“Online video’s volatility (defined as the spread of traffic volume during the course of the day) is 51 percent higher than that of file sharing. The peak video hour is 91 percent higher than the average video hour, while the peak file sharing hour is 64 percent higher than the average file sharing hour.”

Finally, while Adobe likes to boast that some 75 percent of all web video is Flash-based, consumption numbers tell a different story, according to Cisco. It found that of the 26 percent share of traffic belonging to online video, only 7 percent is Flash video. Another 10.5 percent is streaming video; 5 percent is streaming video via P2P technologies; 3.6 percent is audio and video over HTTP; and 0.28 percent is made up of video downloads.

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YouTube Hits 1 Billion Subscriptions: Here Are 7 Geeky Good Ones

YouTube crossed the 1 billion subscriptions mark today and if some of those aren’t yours – you’re missing out. Subscription to YouTube channels is a great way to make use of the service, especially on mobile devices.

Have you got some favorite YouTube subscriptions? I do, and I thought I’d share them here. If you’ve got some good ones to recommend to ReadWriteWeb readers let us know in comments so we can subscribe and watch them while exercising and folding laundry.

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Below you’ll find links to and descriptions of my favorite 7 channels on YouTube, along with the company’s new widget that makes it easy to subscribe with a click.

Talks @ Google

Famous authors and others come and speak to Google staff and the videos are run in this channel. Sometimes famous Googlers speak to each other. Good stuff, long videos. For example: Clay Shirky.

Gartner Videos

Garnter is the world’s biggest analyst firm and the company frequently posts interviews with big company execs at conferences. Depending on your perspective, these videos can be very valuable, or very boring with hints of interesting tidbits. Example: Yvonne Genovese Discusses Pattern Based Strategy

The Liam Show

Liam Kyle Sullivan loves shoes and I love him for it.

Lockergnome

Chris Pirillo’s Lockergnome is crazy prolific and not going to change your life – but it’s fun. It’s pretty remarkable how this tech geek has built a publishing empire that may have reached its pinnacle with nearly continuous live streaming video of hiself answering questions and talking about nerdly pursuits.

O’Reilly Media

Everyone’s favorite tech book publisher and event company publishes good videos from events and occasional webcasts. Great for a deep-dive into the most cutting edge web technology.

Porter Novelli

This big firm runs PR for SXSW and hosts all kinds of really interesting smaller technology events. Mobile social media and augmented reality have been recent topics.

Social Data Revolution

Andreas Weigend is a deep thinker about social data online and he scores great interviews on the topic. He’s got a PhD in Physics and was the Chief Scientist at Amazon.com through 2004. His videos are highly recommended.

Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor combines years of experience as a tech reporter with great access to leading engineers, executives and thinkers and a willingness to push the envelope far into what the future may (or may not) look like online. His YouTube channel is mostly filled with video of his hour-long weekly show the Gillmor Gang. There are plenty of perspectives not included, but if you’re interested in some of the most innovative perspectives in Silicon Valley, this is a great show to watch.

Those are 7 of my favorite YouTube channels to subscribe to. If This Week in VC and Mixergy had channels on YouTube, I’d subscribe to those there too (there’s still iTunes!).

Update: Leo Laport posts explains in comments below that only a fool’s list of geeky YouTube channels would neglect his Twit channel, so check that out. I would be willing to revise the list above and put Twit in place of the Liam Show, but only if Leo is willing to perform the Shoes song himself.

Andrew Warner also pointed out that Mixergy does have some short videos on YouTube as well.

What are your favorites? I think we all could use some more geeky suggestions.

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No Flash? No Worries: Majority of Online Video Now Available in HTML5

The percentage of online video available in HTML5 format has grown 5X since January and more than 2X in the past 5 months, according to a report by web video cataloging service MeFeedia today. An estimated 54% of online video is now available in HTML5, generally in addition to availability in Adobe Flash.

What does that mean? It means iOS devices can play a whole lot of video without concern for Flash, it means that Flash’s (alleged) memory problems can be minimized by deferring to HTML5 players and it may mean less industry dependence on Adobe’s Flash publishing technologies.

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HTML5 comes with all kinds of other advantages as well, from location support to advanced access to hardware support.

The MeFeedia survey incorporated analysis of video from more than 33,000 publishers, including Hulu, CBS & ABC, YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion. Adult video sites were not included, but given that the porn industry’s technology tends to be as advanced as its politics tend to be retrograde – the percentage is probably even higher there.

The HTML5 video landscape is set to change even more, with startups like Sublime Video (our review) and Handroll.tv (our review) making bold new entries into the field. Handroll, which is positioning itself as the WordPress of HTML5 video, recently built a simple Twitter client into its video player, for example.

For an in-depth technical comparison of Flash and HTML5 video performance, see Sarah Perez’s article Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests.

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YellowBird Brings 360-Degree Video to YouTube

YellowBird, a Netherlands-based video technology startup, just had its interactive, 360-degree video player approved by YouTube for integration into YouTube’s channels. With the new player, you can now not only watch immersive, 360-degree YouTube videos, you can also navigate the video by dragging your mouse. As TechCrunch rightly described it last year – it’s like Google Street View for video.

The first YouTube video with this technology is live now, in a campaign designed for Doritos.

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You can see the Doritos video by clicking here: www.youtube.com/doritosuk. On this heavily customized YouTube channel, the main video plays a 360-degree version of Professor Green’s new video “Coming to get me.” Even if you don’t know or care who that is, the video is worth checking out for the experience alone.

As with Street View and other 360-degree technologies, you simply click and drag your mouse to choose which direction you want to go within the video.

YellowBird says its original player was customized specifically for this project into an embeddable widget which also contains social networking links, a 2D (unwrapped) version of the video and a link to buy the album from inside the player.

About yellowBird

The company builds 360-degree experiences like this one for Doritos by using special software that stitches video data together combined with a player for navigating the through the video created.

Co-founder Rafaël Redczus has been interested in 3D technology since 1999, when he developed a method for creating a still 3D image which attracted interest from clients like Volkswagen, Four Seasons (Japan), Ritz-Carlton (Hawaii), the Netherlands Railway and others. He and the company’s other co-founder Marc Groothelm met in 2005 and later went on to form yellowBird itself in March 2009.

One more thing, in case you haven’t noticed – yellowBird has one of the funniest domain names we’ve seen in tech in a long, long time: yellowbirdsdonthavewingsbuttheyflytomakeyouexperiencea3dreality.com.

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TechBuzz: Join us For a Live Video Q&A Session on Vokle

The good people over at the live  town hall platform Vokle invited yours truly and regular Mashable, Gizmodo and Wired contributor Shane Snow for a little live video Q&A session on their site today. If you want to tune in and ask us questions about this week’s technology and social media news, tune in here at 11am. We have also embedded the chat and video below for your viewing pleasure.

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If you want to participate and ask a question (either on live video or regular text chat), just click the big red “join event” button. You can use your Twitter credentials to sign in.

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Russian Amateur’s Transformers Film Shows How YouTube is Leveling the Playing Field

I hate to be the guy who keeps referencing one particular recent post, but I’m going to reference TED-curator Chris Anderson’s CNN article one more time.  His piece is all about how online video is pushing conventional boundaries due to the audience size and the candle power of the spotlight it can shine on an [...]

How Web Video & YouTube Are Driving A New Age Of Innovation

Chris Anderson, the curator of nonprofit organization TED, has written an op-ed piece today at CNN.com, and I think it’s well worth a read.  Titled “The Secret Power of YouTube,” it’s a bit of a defense of the online video portal, but it’s much more than that too.  It’s a defense of online video as [...]

The Sunday News Reel – The Week in Review 12-18 September, 2010

We know, you’re all busy and don’t have time to catch everything that was important this week. So we are going to bring you a weekly news round up. Of course being ReelSEO we have to put a Reel in the title. I thought up the Sunday News Reel, after having tested ReelView and Reeview. [...]

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India Government Unveils Android Tablet Prototype Cloud Computer predicts $10 to 1.2 Billion People

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