Monday, November 21, 2011

Fun stats about what's on TV online

From Mediapost:

 

Right now, more than 100,000 individual TV episodes and movie titles are available online. There are 19,000 movie titles and 82,000 TV episodes available digitally, according to Tribune Media Services/

Tribune says 15.5% of those 100,000 titles are drama-related TV or films; 11.3% are childrens' content; 11.2% are TV sitcoms; 11.0% are reality shows; 7.3% is comedy; 7.1% are crime drama; 4.9% are documentary; and 3.5% are science fiction.

Now, some 50 million TV homes have VOD access, rising to 70.3 million homes in 2016. Those VOD TV homes can access 315 individual titles at any given time.

Now there are 72.2 million U.S. TV viewers who watch a full-length TV episode online once a week, according to eMarketer. Nielsen says this number is somewhat lower: 50 million.