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YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008
Hulu Continues Ascent, Ranks #6 in Online Video Market Share RESTON, VA, December 9, 2008 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released October 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that U.S. Internet users viewed 13.5 billion online ...
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YouTube + Google = 100 Million Video Viewers in US
Mashable! — ... Continuing its dominance of online video, YouTube reached a record 99.5 million visitors in October, according to comScore. How dominant is that? The report indicates that, in total, 147 million people watched video online in the US during the month, meaning better than 2 in 3 watched it using a Google property (Google Video adds a few more views to the overall comScore number). ...

Hulu Streams 235 Million Videos in October; Sixth Most Popular U.S. Video Service
CenterNetworks — ... comScore is out with their latest U.S. online video report today. Back in May comScore listed Hulu for the first top in the top 10 with 88 million videos viewed. Today Hulu has moved up in comScore's online video report for October to sixth position with 235 million videos viewed. Pretty amazing growth for a service some called crap before Hulu actually launched. ...

Online Video Traffic for Oct. 2008
Screenwerk — ... According to Nielsen, TV viewing hasn’t been affected or cannibalized by online but I can’t entirely believe it. From comScore just now: ...

YouTube Hits 100 Million U.S. Viewers, Hulu Surges (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Impressive milestones for Google's (GOOG) YouTube and Hulu.com, the video joint venture between News Corp. (NWS) and NBC Universal (GE), according to comScore: ...

Should Microsoft have purchased YouTube?
The Microsoft Blog — ... those concerns, saying this fall that the company had the "luxury of time." But it seems that Microsoft has not found a "way to compete." Here's a statistic: Two videos were uploaded on Soapbox during the last hour (one in Spanish). On YouTube, 80 videos were uploaded during the span of just one minute. That seems to mesh with a comScore report out today showing that Google sites had 39.7 percent share of the online video market to Microsoft's 2.1 percent. A year ago, Google had a 28.3 percent share to Microsoft's 2.1 percent.

Hulu Gains: Is Real Content Winning?
Contentinople: — The new comScore numbers are out , and Hulu LLC is gaining on YouTube Inc. in a big way. comScore Inc. said that Hulu LLC moved up to the No. 6 U.S. video property with 235 million videos viewed in October of 2008. That's up from the eighth spot and 117 million videos for July of 2008 , according to ComScore. While Google sites, including YouTube, hold the top spot with more than 5 billion views monthly, Hulu is starting to gain. This appears to jive with a lot of what industry sources are saying: Hulu, a joint venture of NBC ...

Half Of US Watching Online Videos
Podcasting NewscomScore released its latest stats today on online media use. Here are comScore’s top ten video destinations, ranked by numbers (in thousand) of videos viewed: ...

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VentureBeat — ... YouTube gets 100 million viewers in October:Google’s video sites, including YouTube, still have more than 53 percent of the viewing market. ...

Kara (Re-)Visits Hulu’s Jason Kilar, Just As Site Becomes No. 6!
BoomTown — ... Yesterday, for example, comScore reported that it had risen to No. 6 in online video market share in October, after big players like the Google (GOOG) video service YouTube, Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) and in front of Disney and Time Warner (TWX) online unit AOL. ...

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TechBlog — ... - After three years of use, the batteries will still keep 80 percent of their initial charge. • YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008 Posted by Dwight at December 10, 2008 07:13 AM Comments Post a comment Please use a valid e-mail address . We don't harvest addresses, you will not be spammed and your address will not be publicly visible. But if I have a question about your comment, I need to be able to contact you. Thank you. URL: Remember Me? Yes No Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style) E-mail this entry Email this entry to: ...

YouTube leads the streaming video pack with 99.5 million viewers in October
Obsessable News Feed — ... Believe it or not, it was only a few years ago that we didn't have hundreds of thousands of hours of online video to watch at any time. The explosive new popularity of sites like YouTube has been made clear by research that shows that there are 45% more people watching online video now than there were a year ago, and those people watch around four and a half hours per month. Since the average video is about three minutes long, that's a lot of videos! All in all, 77% of people with internet access watch online videos. ...

YouTube Grows - But Loses Market Share
ReadWriteWeb — ... According to the latest Comscore report about the online video market, U.S. Internet users watched close to 13.5 billion videos online in October, which represents an increase of 45 percent compared to last year. Google's ...

How to Look at Hulu’s November Numbers [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... in November from 5.3 million in October, according to numbers released today by comScore. It’s important to note, however, that these are comScore Media Metrix numbers, not comScore Video Metrix numbers. The distinction is important as there is a wide gulf between the two. For example, in October the number of unique users reported by comScore was: Media Metrix: 5,342,000 Video Metrix: 23,993,000 Difference: 18,651,000 The two differ because ...

Weekday Online Vid Watching Trumps Weekends: Nielsen [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... Hulu ranks third in Nielsen’s top online brands by video streams, with more than 206 million streams and 9 million unique viewers. Unlike comScore (which had Hulu at sixth), Nielsen is separating out Viacom sites by brand (i.e. Nickelodeon and MTV). ...

New Study Says You Watch A Lot of YouTube at Work
ReadWriteWeb — ... Hulu recorded the biggest gains since September and now ranks as the third-biggest online video site. Interestingly, Nielsen also saw a 3% decline in overall viewers from September to October, even as the number of total streams increased slightly by 1% and the number of streams per viewer increased by 4%. Viewers in October watched close to 172 minutes of video online, a 10% increase from September. Nielsen's numbers for October are generally in line with the comScore numbers we reported last week. Nielsen also saw a slight decline in total streams on ...

TV Today: It’s Still About Lean Forward vs. Sit Back
Technologizer — ... thinking about an old phrase from the early days of Internet video: Lean forward vs. sit back . Essentially, it’s the difference between PCs and TVs. PCs are more interactive while TVs are a passive experience. Lots of companies I spoke to back then were interested in the future of television and interactive TV services and wanted to blur the lines between PCs and TVs. Not much has changed today; I believe that the PC-vs.-TV contrast still holds true. According to ComScore Networks’ Video Metrix service, the duration of an average online video was just three minutes. By ...

Local Search: Where's the Love?
SearchEngineWatch Experts — ... this. Local Motion Online video is one area that could have an impact. User demand has exploded (according to recent comScore data ) and many advertisers, large and small, are seeing cost-effective online video as a substitute for ...

Video Search: Big Time
dailywireless.org — ... , according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be the second largest search engine after Google. More searches are done through YouTube than through Yahoo. ...

AP Picks Hulu As Best of the Web in 2008
Wired: Epicenter — ... While YouTube still dominates the market share for online video (the site served 83 million unique visitors in October, compared to Hulu's 23 million, according to ComScore), Hulu is catching up and is even ...

The Top 15 Web Tech Stories of 2008
SitePoint — ... Think that worries Google? You betcha. YouTube is still way out in front, dominating the online video market with almost 40% of all video views at over 5.3 billion, but the average length of the videos that users are watching is up from ...

Move Networks Doubles Streamed Traffic in 2008 to Reach 55 Million Uniques
Beet.TV — ... Online TV delivery service Move Networks more than doubled the number of viewers watching its streamed content in 2008 to 55 million a year, up from 25 million in 2007, the company announced yesterday. Although those numbers are modest compared with big video sites, like Hulu, which streams to around 23 million viewers a month, this is impressive growth for the Utah start-up. ...

You Like Hulu: Video Site Shows Strong Growth
Mashable! — ... In October of last year, Hulu had 235 million video views and a 1.7% share of the U.S. online video market, according to comScore. This paled in comparison to ...

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