Zencoder has encoded over a million videos since we launched 6 months ago. That means that we have all sorts of interesting statistics about how people are using online video. Here are a few of them.
Source Stats
These numbers represent the source video and audio files sent to Zencoder for encoding, over the month of December. The sample pool is several hundred thousand videos in size.
Video Codecs
| H.264 |
52.3% |
| MPEG-4 |
17.8% |
| WMV 9 |
7.6% |
| H.263 |
6.9% |
| VP6 |
3.4% |
| Motion JPEG |
3.1% |
| WMV 8 |
2.5% |
| MPEG-2 |
2.3% |
| MPEG-1 |
0.9% |
| … 54 other video codecs |
3.2% |
Audio Codecs
| AAC |
52.4% |
| PCM |
12.3% |
| WMA |
10.1% |
| MP3 |
9.5% |
| MP2 |
2.5% |
| FLAC |
2.1% |
| … 32 other video codecs |
4.6% |
Resolutions
| 640px wide |
23.4% |
| 320px wide |
21.0% |
| 1280px wide |
12.6% |
| 480px wide |
8.4% |
| 720px wide |
7.7% |
| 400px wide |
2.6% |
| 352px wide |
2.5% |
| 176px wide |
2.4% |
| 1440px wide |
2.4% |
| 160px wide |
2.1% |
| … 81 other widths |
14.9% |
Resolutions (grouped)
| 128px wide or greater |
7.1% |
| 320px wide or greater |
24.4% |
| 480px wide or greater |
14.8% |
| 640px wide or greater |
25.2% |
| 720px wide or greater |
9.8% |
| 960px wide or greater |
2.7% |
| 1280px wide or greater |
15.2% |
| 1920px wide or greater |
0.9% |
Audio Channels
| 2 channels |
55.3% |
| 1 channel |
44.5% |
| 6 channels |
0.23% |
| 3-5 channels |
0.02% |
Audio/Video Only
| Video only (no audio) |
5.7% |
| Audio only (no video) |
9.6% |
Encoding Stats
These numbers represent the output video and audio files encoded by Zencoder, over the month of December. The sample pool is several hundred thousand videos in size.
Video Codecs
| H.264 |
73.5% |
| VP6 |
15.0% |
| (audio only) |
8.9% |
| VP8 |
1.1% |
| MPEG-4 |
0.8% |
| Theora |
0.6% |
| WMV 8 |
0.03% |
Audio Codecs
| AAC |
79.5% |
| MP3 |
12.9% |
| (video only) |
5.8% |
| Vorbis |
1.8% |
| WMA |
0.03% |
Resolutions
| 640px wide |
30.3% |
| 480px wide |
17.4% |
| 320px wide |
16.5% |
| 720px wide |
8.7% |
| 176px wide |
3.5% |
| 500px wide |
3.5% |
| 400px wide |
2.8% |
| 560px wide |
2.1% |
… 112 other widths |
15.3% |
Resolutions (grouped)
| 128px wide or greater |
7.8% |
| 320px wide or greater |
25.2% |
| 480px wide or greater |
24.6% |
| 640px wide or greater |
30.5% |
| 720px wide or greater |
9.2% |
| 960px wide or greater |
0.9% |
| 1280px wide or greater |
1.7% |
| 1920px wide or greater |
0.1% |
Audio Channels
| 2 channels |
73.1% |
| 1 channel |
26.9% |
If this is interesting, let us know and we’ll consider publishing these numbers on a monthly basis.
