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83% Of Senior Executives Watch More Web Video Today Than A Year Ago
Executives indicate they are willing to take purchasing action after watching business web videos
The web continues to be in the middle of a video make-over and more senior executives are open to taking action after having watched a business related video. Forbes Insights, in association with Google, released a report entitled “Video in the C-Suite: Executives Embrace the Non-Text Web”, and the report finds that web video continues to make gains as important business information sources for senior executives.
Online video is clearly increasing among business users, according to the study, 83% of C-level executives are now watching more video than they did just one year ago. I thought it was particularly noteworthy to mention a shift in different age groups as it pertains to their viewing habits of online video. For example, in 2009, only 41% of executives age 50 or older said they watched web videos on websites which are related to their business activities, and only 11% viewed web videos related to business on a daily basis. However, in 2010, 66% of executives age 50 or older viewed business related online video while 15% did so daily. There was also an increase from 40% to 52% of business executive who go to YouTube for their business video consumption.
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