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Internet video views grow in December

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 05 Feb 2009 3:55

Internet video views grow in December

According to new data from comScore, December was a record breaking month for online video views, with U.S. Internet users viewing over 14.3 billion videos for the month.
The number is a 13 percent growth from the month before it and YouTube led the way, accounting for about 41 percent of all the videos viewed for the month, about 5.9 billion.

Sites owned by Fox came in second with 445 million videos viewed and sites owned by Yahoo followed behind with 330 million videos viewed. Viacom lagged behind with 291 million videos viewed.

Seeing large growth for the month was Hulu, the video site brought together by NBC Universal and News Corp., which rose over 6 percent from November to 241 million videos viewed.

The data adds that about 150 million US Internet users watched on average 96 videos each.

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