Of Interest to Web Publishers, Videos Continue Surge in Popularity

 

If you’re a Web publisher, videos are an increasingly important indicator of your relevance to Internet users.

Videos continue to be the online rage as 33.2 billion were viewed online by 178 million in America in December, 2009, according to research firm, comScore.

comScore says the Google sites were the most popular with 13.2 billion videos for a 39.8 percent market share, thanks to YouTube. It garnered 99 percent of Google’s viewers.

Here are the other rankings of viewed videos:

 ·         No. 2 Hulu -1 billion – 3 percent

·         No.3 Microsoft – 561 million – 1.7 percent

·         No. 4 Fox Interactive Media – 550.5 million – 1.7 percent

·         No. 5 Yahoo – 539.4 million – 1.6 percent

·         No. 6 Viacom Digital – 372.6 million – 1.1 percent

·         No.7 Turner Network – 366.9 million – 1.1 percent

·         No. 8 CBS Interactive – 297.2 million – .9 percent

·         No. 9 Megavideo.com – 210.2 million – .6 percent

·         No. 10 AOL – 209.9 million – .6 percent

This also means the 178 million viewers each saw an average of 187 videos.

In view of these numbers, it isn’t surprising that Google had the most unique viewers with 135.8 million. That’s 97.5 videos per person.

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