Americans Watch 33 Billion Videos in December

December 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, shows that nearly 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in December, with 33.2 billion videos viewed during the month.

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Videos Viewed

Google Sites continued to rank as the top U.S. video property in December, delivering 13.2 billion videos, with YouTube.com accounting for nearly 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with more than 1 billion videos viewed, an all-time high for the property, and representing 3.0 percent market share. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 561 million (1.7 percent), followed by Fox Interactive Media with 551 million (1.7 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 539 million (1.6 percent).

  Top U.S. Online Video Content Properties* by Videos Viewed
  December 2009
  Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
  Source: comScore Video Metrix

  Property                     Videos           Share (%) of

                                    (000)          Videos
                                    ----           ------
  Total Internet : Total
   Audience                   33,242,835            100.0

  Google Sites                13,242,487             39.8

  Hulu                         1,013,494              3.0

  Microsoft Sites                561,052              1.7

  Fox Interactive Media          550,505              1.7

  Yahoo! Sites                   539,416              1.6

  Viacom Digital                 372,641              1.1

  Turner Network                366,987               1.1

  CBS Interactive                297,298              0.9

  Megavideo.com                  210,294              0.6

  AOL LLC                        209,957              0.6

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

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Viewers

Nearly 178 million viewers watched an average of 187 videos per viewer during the month of December. Google Sites attracted 135.8 million unique viewers during the month (97.5 videos per viewer), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 59.8 million viewers (9.0 videos per viewer) and Fox Interactive Media with 56.8 million viewers (9.7 videos per viewer). The average Hulu viewer watched 22.9 videos during the month, representing another all-time high for the property.

  Top U.S. Online Video Content Properties* by Unique Viewers
  December 2009
  Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
  Source: comScore Video Metrix

                                Unique
                               Viewers         Average Videos
  Property                       (000)           per Viewer
  --------                     -------         --------------
  Total Internet : Total
   Audience                      177,851            186.9

  Google Sites                   135,830             97.5

  Yahoo! Sites                    59,842              9.0

  Fox Interactive Media           56,781              9.7

  CBS Interactive                 47,918              6.2

  Microsoft Sites                 44,579             12.6

  Hulu                            44,189             22.9

  Viacom Digital                  39,592              9.4

  Facebook.com                    32,754              5.0

  Turner Network                  30,586             12.0

  5min.com                        30,530              2.5

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

Top Video Ad Networks by Potential Reach

In December, Tremor Media ranked as the top video ad network with a potential reach of 103.7 million viewers, or 58.3 percent of the total viewing audience. BBE ranked second with a potential reach of 101.1 million viewers (56.9 percent penetration) followed by Advertising.com Video Network with 83.6 million viewers (47.0 percent).

  Top U.S. Online Video Ad Networks by Potential Reach of Unique Viewers
  December 2009
  Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
  Source: comScore Video Metrix

                                              Unique
                                             Viewers            Viewer
  Property                                     (000)         Penetration

  Total Internet : Total Audience              177,851         100.0

  Tremor Media - Potential Reach               103,672          58.3

  BBE - Potential Reach                        101,124          56.9

  Advertising.com Video Network -
   Potential Reach                              83,619          47.0

  SpotXchange Video Ad Network -
   Potential Reach                              81,290          45.7

  YuMe Video Network - Potential Reach          76,356          42.9

  ScanScout Network - Potential Reach           70,976          39.9

  Break Media Video Ad Network -
   Potential Reach                              61,269          34.4

  BrightRoll Video Network -Potential
   Reach                                        55,227          31.1

  Adconion Video Network -Potential
   Reach                                        55,027          30.9

  TidalTV - Potential Reach                     46,563          26.2

Other notable findings from December 2009 include:

  • The top video ad networks in terms of their actual reach delivered were: Tremor Media Video Network with 30.5 percent penetration of online video viewers, BrightRoll Video Network with 21.7 percent, and BBE with 21.2 percent.
  • Jambo Media, an online video solutions company, delivered videos to 39.4 million unique viewers, representing a reach comparable to that of video content providers in the top ten.
  • 86.5 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
  • 134.4 million viewers watched more than 13 billion videos on YouTube.com (97.1 videos per viewer).
  • 44.9 million viewers watched 423.3 million videos on MySpace Sites (9.4 videos per viewer).
  • The average Hulu viewer watched 22.9 videos, totaling 2.2 hours of videos per viewer.
  • The duration of the average online video was 4.1 minutes.

Source: comScore

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