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Yielding to my curious side, I had the opportunity to flee the office for the afternoon, and attend Chinwag Psych. With my background in PR I had no clue what to expect from a pyschology conference, but soon enough I was up to my knees in knowledge; learning about how neuroscience, behavioural psychology and machine learning could revolutionise media, marketing and business.

In case you missed out, I’ve put together a couple of highlights from the sessions I sat in on:

2012 has been an exceptional year for web video, with Psy's taking the world by storm and Felix Baumgartner's huge leap from space.

With record-breaking numbers of viewers watching content online, video has also played a massive part in the growth of companies globally.

Just take a look at YouTube's statistics to see how mind boggling the 'video revolution' has become, for example: 500 years of YouTube videos are watched every day on Facebook. Crazy!

We've pulled together a few interesting statistics from the past 12 months to sum up how web video has also been impacting on businesses.