Hello radio? Do you have video on your website? Do you have user generated content, especially video on your site? Is it a website or an "interactive media" site? Dig this press release that just came in from Comscore
Google
Sites Extends Online Video Market Share Lead to 38 Percent on Surge in Viewing
at YouTube.com
RESTON,
VA, May 12, 2008
– comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in
measuring the digital world, today released March 2008 data from the comScore
Video Metrix service, indicating that U.S. Internet users viewed 11.5 billion
online videos during the month, representing a 13-percent gain versus February
and a 64-percent gain versus March 2007.
Google
Sites Extends Lead in Online Video Market Share
In
March, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more
than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of all videos), gaining 2.6
share points versus the previous month. YouTube.com accounted for 98 percent of
all videos viewed at Google Sites. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 477
million videos (4.2 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 328 million (2.9
percent) and Viacom Digital with 249 million (2.2
percent).
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Top
U.S. Online Video Properties* by Videos Viewed
March
2008
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University
Locations
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Property
Videos Share (%) of
(000)
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
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*Rankings based on
video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video
includes both streaming and progressive download
video.
Nearly
139 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 83 videos per viewer in
March. Google Sites also attracted the most viewers (85.7 million), where they
watched an average of 51 videos per person. Fox Interactive attracted the second
most viewers (54.3 million), followed by Yahoo! Sites (37.5 million) and Viacom
Digital (26.6 million).
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Top U.S.
Online Video Properties* by Unique Viewers
March
2008
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University
Locations
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Property
Unique Viewers Average Videos
(000)
per Viewer
Total Internet
138,576 82.8
Google
Sites 85,670
50.9
Fox Interactive Media
54,294
8.8
Yahoo!
Sites 37,536
8.7
Viacom Digital
26,642 9.4
Microsoft
Sites 25,194
9.7
Time Warner - Excl. AOL
22,366 7.1
AOL
LLC
21,860
4.6
Disney Online
12,249
8.8
ESPN
10,053 8.9
CBS
Corporation 9,486
6.6
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*Rankings based on
video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video includes both
streaming and progressive download video.
Other
notable findings from March 2008 include:
- 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.