Videonomics

YouTube Video Stats

ComScore released July’s YouTube viewing numbers, showing that YouTube still dominates all online video viewing, and viewership and average time spent continue to increase as well. The report also found that more than 184 million U.S. Internet users watched 36.9 billion online content videos in July, while video ad views totaled 9.6 billion.

Top U.S. Online Video Content Properties Ranked by Unique Video Viewers
July 2012
Total U.S. – Home and Work Locations
Content Videos Only (Ad Videos Not Included)
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Property Total Unique Viewers (000) Videos (000)* Minutes per Viewer
Total Internet : Total Audience 184,182 36,877,798 1,336.8
Google Sites 156,999 19,586,510 525.0
Facebook.com 53,045 327,801 21.7
Yahoo! Sites 48,693 625,077 70.4
VEVO 44,844 597,107 46.1
Microsoft Sites 42,677 483,280 43.9
AOL, Inc. 39,774 664,568 69.7
Viacom Digital 37,029 420,762 51.3
NDN 35,129 391,699 89.7
Amazon Sites 28,480 99,163 21.2
Turner Digital 24,611 244,887 40.4

*A video is defined as any streamed segment of audiovisual content, including both progressive downloads and live streams. For long-form, segmented content, (e.g. television episodes with ad pods in the middle) each segment of the content is counted as a distinct video stream.Video views are inclusive of both user-initiated and auto-played videos that are viewed for longer than 3 seconds.

  • 85.5 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
  • The duration of the average online content video was 6.7 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes.
  • Video ads accounted for 20.7 percent of all videos viewed and 1.6 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.

The entire press release can be found here.

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