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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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