Time Spent Viewing Video On Social Networking Sites Up 98% Year-Over-Year In October

NIELSEN WIRE — Facebook is Top Social Networking Destination by Video Streams for the 2nd Month in a Row in October. Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98 percent year-over-year, from 503.8 million minutes in October 2008 to 999.4 million minutes in October 2009, according to Nielsen. In conjunction, the number of online video streams viewed on social networking and blog sites increased 45 percent year-over-year, from 240.8 million streams in October 2008 to 349.5 million in October 2009...