YouTube In October 2008

Would you like to know how many online videos Internet users in the States watched in YouTube? According to October 2008 date from comScore Video Metrix Service, a total of 13.5 billion… yup, billion videos were viewed by users in the States. That is quite a staggering figure.


YouTube accounted for around 98% of total videos viewed, followed by Fox Interactive Media with 520 million videos (3.8 percent). Yahoo! Sites accounted for 2.7% or 363 million followed by Viacom Digital at 2.3% or 305 million video. Hulu, a joint venture of NBC and Fox featuring full-length broadcast TV programs, ranked sixth with 235 million videos viewed (1.7 percent).

These figures are from the recent data released by the comScore Video Metrix service last December 9, 2008.

Other findings showed that the average online video viewer watched 274 minutes of video. A total of 99.5 million viewers watched 5.3 billion videos on YouTube.com with an average of 53.2 videos per viewer.
Me? Not even five minutes of YouTube. I really spend more minutes at Facebook or Friendster or Yahoo Sports!

Just read that LA Lakers defeated the Phoenix Suns!


And tonight, Chief and I will watch "IyoTube" at Bubble Gang. Last week, we really had a blast as they featured "Macarena."