If you think you’ve been spending more moment watching video online, you’re not alone. A new report from the Pew Web & American Life Project, released that week, said that the daily traffic to sites such as YouTube doubled in 2007, and that nearly half of all adult Web users have visited such sites.

A year ago, in December 2006, about 33 percent of Web users had been to video-sharing sites, Pew said, and it’s now up to 48 percent — a jump of 45 percent.

In fact, 15 percent of the 2,054 adults surveyed amidst late October and early December said they visited a video-sharing site the day before they were polled in the survey, compared to 8 percent in 2006.

Linked to Broadband

Men continue to lead women among those who said they had visited a video-sharing site, with 53 percent compared to 43 percent. Last year, the figures were 40 percent and 27 percent,

and women’s increased usage is part of the reason for the jump. Average daily use among women increased 120 percent, from 5 percent to 11 percent.

The report tied the growth in the popularity of online video to increased access to broadband, and to the fact that there are more videos on YouTube and other sites than there were previously, including more amateur video.

More than three times as many folks who shoot their own videos now post them online, compared to the middle of 2006.

“Everything connected to online video doubled last year,” said James McQuivey, an analyst at industry research firm Forrester. In specific, he cited the amount of instance humans spent with video and the number of folks who watch full episodes of television shows online.

Growth Not Yet Finished

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