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Online Video Watching Continues to Soar

By Sean Maguire

comScore yesterday released March 2008 data depicting Google’s continued assault on the online video watching market. With 4.3 billion videos viewed during the month, representing a 38% share of all videos, Google gained 2.6-percent over the previous month. Google’s video flagship YouTube accounted for 98% of its total.

U.S. Internet users viewed 11.5 billion online videos during the period, a 13-percent gain versus February and a 64-percent gain versus March 2007.

Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Videos Viewed

March 2008

Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations

Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property

Videos

(000)

Share (%) of

Videos

Total Internet

11,476,886

100.0

Google Sites

4,358,306

38.0

Fox Interactive Media

477,621

4.2

Yahoo! Sites

328,087

2.9

Viacom Digital

249,285

2.2

Microsoft Sites

245,453

2.1

Time Warner - Excl. AOL

159,009

1.4

Disney Online

108,055

0.9

ABC.COM

100,051

0.9

AOL LLC

100,044

0.9

ESPN

89,760

0.8

*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Other Notable Numbers:

  • 73.7 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.

  • 84.8 million viewers watched 4.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (50.4 videos per viewer).

  • 47.7 million viewers watched 400 million videos on MySpace.com (8.4 videos per viewer).

  • The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes.

  • The average online video viewer watched 235 minutes of video.

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