Category Archives: video metrics

Video sites continue to grow, but ComScore’s metrics don’t tell the whole story

The latest ComScore video metrics were released last week, and to no one’s surprise, video sites continue to grow at a spectacular rate. Americans watched 14.3 billion videos in December, up 13% from the previous month.
These are certainly impressive numbers, but ComScore’s metrics don’t tell the whole story. The report covers internet video sites. What [...]

Lies, Damn Lies, and Video Metrics

This week, ComScore came out with online metrics for May. Here are some of the highlights:

12 billion videos were viewed during the month of May in the US
This represents an increase of 45% compared to a year ago
Google sites (mostly YouTube) represents 34.58% of all videos watched
There is a huge drop-off from there, with Fox [...]