Tuesday 29 September 2009

Google sites pass 10B video views in August

"During August about 161 million Internet users in the U.S. watched an all-time high number of online videos -- more than 25 billion -- and Google Inc. sites accounted for more than 10 billion of them, according to a report Monday.

Reston, Va.-based comScore Inc. said Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continued to rank as the top U.S. video purveyor in August, representing 40 percent of all videos viewed online.

San Bruno-based YouTube Inc. accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed at the Google sites property. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 547 million (2.2 percent) followed by Viacom Digital with 539 million videos viewed (2.1 percent) and Hulu with 488 million (1.9 percent)."


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Comment: Online video is exploding - let's hope Blinkx are getting their fair share of that traffic and associated revenue. Because one thing's for sure - if Blinkx mgmt balls-up this historic opportunity they'll not only be a laughing stock they will also have destroyed all their careers...

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