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11 Billion videos viewed online in April 2008

By Andrew Redfern @ 17th June 2008 6:31 pm

comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube.com accounting for more than 4 billion of that total.

In April, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more than 4.1 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of all videos), as YouTube.com accounted for 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 558 million videos (5.1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 352 million (3.2 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 268 million (2.4 percent).

Top U.S. Online Video Properties by Videos Viewed
1) Google Sites
2) Fox Interactive Media
3) Yahoo! Sites
4) Microsoft Sites
5) Viacom Digital
6) Time Warner – Excl. AOL
7) ABC.COM
8) Disney Online
9) AOL LLC
10) ESPN

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

Nearly 135 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 82 videos per viewer in April. Google Sites also attracted the most viewers (83.7 million), where they watched an average of 50 videos per person. Fox Interactive attracted the second most viewers (52 million), followed by Yahoo! Sites (37.3 million) and Microsoft Sites (29.9 million).

Other notable findings from April 2008 include:
–   71 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
–   The average online video viewer watched 228 minutes of video.
–   18-34 year olds were the heaviest viewing segment, watching an average of 287 minutes per viewer.
–   82.1 million viewers watched 4.1 billion videos on YouTube.com (49.8 videos per viewer).
–   46 million viewers watched 481 million videos on MySpace.com (10.4 videos per viewer).
–   The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes.

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