YouTube Had 9 Billion Video Views In January

By Mike Sachoff - Fri, 03/14/2008 - 14:30

Google Sites tops again

YouTube received 9.8 billion video views in the U.S. for the month of January, down slightly from December's record-breaking totals of 10.1 billion, comScore reported today.

YouTube Had 9.8 billion Video Views In January

Google Sites again ranked as the top U.S. video property in January with close to 3.4 billion videos viewed (34.3 percent share of videos), gaining 1.7 share points over the previous month.

YouTube accounted for more than 96 percent of videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 584 million (6 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 315 million (3.2 percent) and Microsoft sites with 199 million (2 percent).

More than 139 million U.S. Internet users spent an average of 206 minutes per person viewing online video in January. Google Sites pulled in the most viewers (80 Million), where they spent an average of 110 minutes watching video. Fox Interactive attracted the second most viewers (53.9 million), followed by Yahoo Sites (36.3 million) and AOL (21.9 million).

comScore also reported that 75 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. Seventy-eight million viewers watched 3.25 billion videos on YouTube (41.4 videos per viewer). Forty-nine million viewers watched 534 billion videos on MySpace (10.8 videos per viewer).

The average time spent watching online videos was 2.9 minutes and the average online video viewer watched 70 videos.

News Tags: Social Media, Google, YouTube, comScore

About the author:
Mike is a staff writer for WebProNews.

19 Comments

By Home Remedies (WPN reader) - Fri, 10/17/2008 - 20:02

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Youtube is obviously a monster in the market!

By Skin Tag Removal (WPN reader) - Wed, 10/15/2008 - 19:31

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No wonder they have started monetizing Youtube! It probably costs a ton to maintain.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Fri, 09/26/2008 - 02:49

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Youtube's web reach and presence is simply staggering!

By jewelry website design (WPN reader) - Tue, 08/19/2008 - 21:06

Incredible stats

It is no wonder many people have turned to using Youtube as a legitimate source of business

By Guest (WPN reader) - Wed, 07/23/2008 - 11:21

Your facts are wrong.

Your facts are wrong. YouTube didn't receive all those views, the 9.8 billion was total online video views, and Google sites, which include YouTube, trafficked roughly 34 percent.

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Youtube has lasting power, an infinite budget behind the project, and a massive amount of pull. I cannot see Youtube going away any time soon, nor can I see marketers losing any iterest in leveraging this site as a credible way to pull massive traffic to clients.

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Youtube is only getting bigger

Youtube.com simply dominates the market, and it is pretty much expected. It is very difficult to compete with Youtube.com now since it has become the 'cool place' to publish your videos, just like Facebook has beome the cool social media network.

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WOW

Wow that is amazing! I'd cash out and retire.

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By Kursy (WPN reader) - Mon, 03/17/2008 - 06:21

Oh my!

I watched nearly 1000 of this 10 billions )))

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The new place for adverts.

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It's amazing that there is

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I agree, a youtube campaign is worth a thought reading these numbers, but it shouldn't stop there, if you read between the lines, you see that the other mentioned parties pull in a lot of viewers, too.

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