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While Intel has not said how much it plans to charge for its TV service, Intel Media head Erik Huggers has billed it as a premium product, with small bundles of channels and an attractive user interface rather than as a cut-rate option for consumers hoping to save money by canceling their cable subscriptions.

Tumblr stat is likely music to the ears of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer—who paid $1.1 billion for the social site to help her 19-year-old Internet company "get young." An emerging industry narrative involves teens and twentysomethings migrating in droves from Facebook to Tumblr

Twitter disputed Union Metrics' numbers, claiming to have had 3 million users who tweeted about the VMAs on Sunday

or all the video people watch on the web, it is still a tiny fraction of how much they watch on TV in terms of time spent. In a report put out yesterday on the State of the Media summarizing 2011 data, Nielsen estimates Americans spend an average of 32 hours and 47 minutes a week watching traditional TV. They only spend an average of 3 hours and 58 minutes a week on the Internet, and only 27 minutes a week watching video online. All those billions of videos watched online still only represent 1.4 percent of the time spent watching traditional TV.

Even on the web, there is a huge difference between the video sites which attract the biggest audiences and those which are the most engaging. The top 5 video sites by unique visitors are YouTube, Vevo, Yahoo, Facebook, and MSN. But the top 5 video sites by time spent are Netflix, YouTube, Tudou, Hulu, and Megavideo.

total TV viewership increased 22 minutes per month, per person over last year. However, TV watching has declined among people who watch the most online video. This behavior is led by 18- to 34-year olds, but it may hint at future consumption patterns.