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Other notable findings from March 2008 include: 73.7 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. 84.8 million viewers watched 4.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (50.4 videos per viewer). 47.7 million viewers watched 400 million videos on MySpace.com (8.4 videos per viewer). The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes. The average online video viewer watched 235 minutes of video.

The most common way viewers find a video (45.13% of all views our sample) is direct navigation to a video site (i.e. going to YouTube and running a search or clicking around the featured or related videos).

To those trying to unlock a formula for making a video go viral, perhaps this gives some clues: reach out to bloggers and optimize a video's meta-data to ensure it ranks highly on intra-video site plugs.

The results are dramatic: most online video viewers watch mere seconds, rather than minutes, of a video.

For starters, it is clear that post-roll ads are of limited effectiveness.

81.0 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.

Looking inside of those numbers, it’s not surprising that the bulk of content creators are simply social networking users that do things like post photos or links, but there’s also a quickly-growing number of people participating in more involved activities like blogging or uploading their own videos.

As you can see in the above chart, 71 million people created content on social networks last year, while 21 million posted blogs, 15 million uploaded videos, and more than 11 million participated in virtual worlds. Overall, eMarketer arrives at the 82 million number – which counts everyone who generated content at least monthly - by accounting for the overlap within the respective categories measured.

I’ve been devoting much of my time of late to exploring Web 2.0 possibilities in the last few weeks… services, sites, widgets and ways to integrate them. Now that we all have profiles all over the place (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube and countless others) keeping them all relevant can be pretty time consuming. Fortunately developers appear to be aware of this and are doing something about it. Here’s a cute little example of my most recent Web 2.0 chain reaction (websites updating other websites and profiles automatically)

This is a pretty neat development, and can be handy both socially and professionally.

In this case, my goal was to proliferate my online video, and share the awareness of it as broadly as possible.

The Expo is a hands-on, exciting, "how-to" event with practical conference sessions about how to produce high-quality online audio and video content, grow a loyal audience, and market or monetize that content in creative ways.

Corporate content creators and marketers attend to learn how to create audio and video content for marketing or internal training and get educated on strategies for advertising within online content that will resonate with their customers and prospects.

"We are at an unprecedented time in the history of entertainment media. Never before has the opportunity been so great for independent writers and actors, musicians and producers to create compelling content on par with the studios, networks and labels."

As a rising start-up, Buzznet is often compared to other social networking websites. However, Buzznet's Guides create daily music and pop-culture content that no other media-sharing site can rival. In addition to producing individual journals and video blogs, the on-staff curators deliver a live stream of relevant posts to the pages of Buzznet's music and pop-culture sections.

it is launching Buzznet 2.0

Buzznet 2.0 was built from the ground up

The company also announced an exclusive partnership with event promoter Goldenvoice to create an interactive site for attendees of the 2006 Coachella Valley Music Festival. Leading up to, during and after the festival, event attendees will be able to post and share photos, video and stories at Buzznet.com by tagging their content 'Coachella'. This content will be available in real-time on their Coachella community site on Buzznet.com.

Plus, everything in your community is video-enabled, including message boards and blogs.

Viral Widgets Members can syndicate their favorite content from your community to some of the Web's most trafficked sites, including MySpace, iGoogle, WordPress and Blogger, with a simple mouse click. Or, they can easily copy/paste the embed code.

Let content creators sell ads.

$90 million this year; other estimates have it as high as $200 million. Even at the high end, that would be just a touch more than 1% of Google's total revenue

YouTube targets advertising by channel or vertical, such as comedy or music, rather than around specific videos.

this didn’t happen naturally,