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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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Pop Up YouTube

YouTube addicts may have noticed an addition to YouTube's features today - The ability to annotate video.

While this only works onsite, it can allow embedded links within the videos that can take you to the next in the series (or to a YouTube channel)

Its only been live for one day, but this great video shows what can be done...

I'm waiting for a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' styles sequence of videos, complete with a dragon...

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One BILLION Online Video Watchers By 2013

A new study from ABI Research forecasts the number of viewers who access video via the Web to nearly quadruple in the next few years, reaching at least one billion in 2013.

One Billion...that's a LOT of people.

“The rapid expansion of broadband video creates opportunities across a number of market sectors,” comments senior analyst Cesar Bachelet. “A wide variety of actors aim to gain a share of this fast-growing market: not only content owners such as the BBC and NBC Universal, and Internet portals such as AOL and Yahoo!, but also a range of new entrants including user-generated content sites such as YouTube and Dailymotion, broadband video sites such as CinemaNow and Lovefilm, and Internet TV providers such as Apple and Zattoo.”

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It's Like THIS! And that's the way it is..

Proof if any was needed that YouTube can be a force for good, whatever anyone might say.

One of the best music videos ever (whether you like RUN DMC or not)

Given a little reworking thanks to some Russian dancing.

As the man says: "Check THIS out..."

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See What YouTube Didn't Want You To

YouTube removes lots of videos for copyright holders at their request - we've all tried to watch a video that's no longer available. But just what videos were removed, and who wanted them taken down? A new site from the people at MIT tells you just that. Called YouTomb, the site scans YouTube for the metadata that goes up when a clip is pulled. It then organizes the data with a screengrab, telling you how long the clip was up before being pulled, who requested it to be removed, and what category it was in. It's an interesting little tool to see just who freaks out the most about their precious content being on YouTube. [YouTomb via News.com and Google Operating System]

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