Drawing conclusions

John Gruber:

So the reason Apple TV doesn’t show up in Freewheel’s data is because it doesn’t show any ad-backed video. Freewheel’s data isn’t about online video watching — it’s specifically about ad-backed online video watching.

I don’t understand how people can draw conclusions from data like this. Gruber gets it right.



3 thoughts on “Drawing conclusions”

  1. It’s actually much worse when you look at the total iOS share as pointed out by Gruber. Even when only looking at “ad-backed video”, Xbox is #1, but just barely above the iPad. When comparing the Xbox to iOS, the Xbox has only half the traffic.

  2. The Apple TV actually does show ad-supported video on its WSJ Live channel and that channel may be a precursor to future ad-supported endeavors.

    Ironically, the WSJ Live ads are for the most part top quality TV ads (Etrade, etc). Better than the actual WSJ videos.

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