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27 Million People Watched More Than 3.5 Billion Videos Online in the U.K. in March 2008

YouTube.com Accounted for Nearly Half of All Videos Viewed Online

LONDON, U.K., June 25, 2008 comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 27.4 million U.K. Internet users viewed 3.5 billion videos online in March 2008. comScore Video Metrix, which was the first to market in the U.S. more than two years ago, has become the leading service for online video measurement and is the only service of its kind in the U.K.

                       

Google Sites Ranks as Most Popular Online Video Viewing Property

Google Sites, driven by the popularity of YouTube.com (which accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on the property in March), attracted a 48-percent share of all online videos viewed in the U.K. BBC Sites ranked second with a 1.2-percent share, followed by Fox Interactive Media (0.9 percent share), Microsoft Sites (0.7 percent share), Yahoo! Sites (0.6 percent share), and French video sharing site, Dailymotion.com (0.4 percent share).

 

Top U.K. Online Video Properties* Ranked by Videos Viewed

March 2008

Total U.K. – Age 15+, Home & Work Locations**

Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property

Videos (000)

Share (%) of Videos

Total Internet

3,500,627

100.0

Google Sites

1,681,887

48.0

BBC Sites

42,417

1.2

Fox Interactive Media

29,748

0.9

Microsoft Sites

25,287

0.7

Yahoo! Sites

19,975

0.6

DAILYMOTION.COM

15,590

0.4

VEOH.COM

15,070

0.4

Disney Online

13,893

0.4

Viacom Digital

13,528

0.4

Metacafe

13,090

0.4

*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

**Excludes searches from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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iTunes Update: Movies Available From Today!

Apple has started offering movies on iTunes in the UK for the first time from today.

The technology company is making more than 700 titles available to UK iTunes customers, having done deals with most of the Hollywood majors - Fox, Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate - Universal still hasn't signed up as yet.

This is the first time outside the US that Apple has offered full length Hollywood movies to download via iTunes.

Top of the range are the new releases in HD at £4.49 - 30 days to watch with a 48 hour window to watch it as much as you want once you've started viewing.

You can also download a new release to own for £10.99 - library titles are £6.99.

What you really want to know is, how easy is it, how long does it take to download them and what sort of quality are they on my iMac, my iPod and my Apple TV?

We'll be spanking the Donwload Monkey credit card today and will have an update asap. Stay tuned...

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