Sunday, April 22, 2012

Online Video Rankings Reach Record

comScore March 2012 Online Video Rankings
Video Ad Impressions Reach Record Numbers in March

181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content videos in March, while video ads topped 8 billion for the first time on record.

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers
1. YouTube - 146.1 million
2. Yahoo! - 60.6 million
3. VEVO - 51.3 million
4. Facebook.com - 45.1 million
5. Viacom Digital - 44.3 million.
Nearly 37 billion video views occurred during March.
Average viewer watched 21.7 hours of online video content.

Top U.S. Online Video Content Properties Ranked by Unique Video Viewers March 2012
Total U.S. – Home and Work Locations
Content Videos Only (Ad Videos Not Included)
Property Total Unique Viewers (000) Videos (000)* Minutes per Viewer
Total Internet : Total Audience 181,062 36,984,872 1,304.8
Google Sites 146,097 15,748,884 424.6
Yahoo! Sites 60,609 814,838 72.4
VEVO 51,337 706,291 63.0
Facebook 45,073 247,010 21.3
Viacom Digital 44,251 547,732 63.2
AOL, Inc. 43,701 496,415 50.3
Turner Digital 42,917 288,887 24.8
Microsoft Sites 41,169 494,529 46.7
Comcast NBCUniversal 32,164 178,189 36.9
Hulu 31,104 1,010,527 275.2
*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.

Top 10 Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed
- Americans viewed more than 8.3 billion video ads in March
- Time spent watching video ads - 3.5 billion minutes.
- Video ads reached 51 percent of the total U.S.
  population an average of 53 times during the month.

Top U.S. Online Video Ad Properties Ranked by Video Ads* Viewed
March 2012, Total U.S. – Home and Work Locations
Ad Videos Only (Content Videos Not Included)
Property Video Ads (000) Total Ad Minutes (MM) Frequency (Ads per Viewer) % Reach Total U.S. Population
Total Internet : Total Audience 8,370,492 3,545 53.4 51.2
Hulu 1,754,128 690 50.7 11.3
Google Sites 1,269,465 129 17.2 24.2
BrightRoll Video Network** 953,234 589 8.5 36.4
Adap.tv 892,042 531 12.0 24.3
Specific Media** 775,530 358 8.0 31.6
Tremor Video** 675,983 366 13.6 16.2
ESPN 562,584 206 26.4 7.0
TubeMogul Video Ad Platform** 537,180 185 10.8 16.2
Auditude, Inc.** 466,423 195 10.9 13.9
CBS Interactive 415,652 192 17.8 7.6
*Video ads include streaming-video advertising only and do not include other types of video monetization, such as overlays, branded players, matching banner ads, etc.
**Indicates video ad network    †Indicates video ad exchange
Other notable findings from March 2012 include:
  • 83.5 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
  • The duration of the average online content video was 6.4 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes.
  • Video ads accounted for 18.5 percent of all videos viewed and 1.5 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.

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