Internet TV Use Up 45% In Last Year
Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago.
Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May.
Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 million), who watched an average of 50 videos per person. Fox Interactive attracted the second most viewers (60.8 million), followed by Yahoo! Sites (40.2 million) and Microsoft Sites (29.5 million).
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Those numbers are garbage. Tracking stuff like that is nearly impossible on the internet, and there’s simply no mathematical way to get 1/2 the country’s population watching 85 videos each a month, even the 2 minute wonders that are YouTube. Which is another part of the problem, trying to extrapolate viewership of 2 minute clips into watchers of 1 hour shows.
Of course even if they aren’t junk it still doesn’t hold a candle to TV. Broadcast TV still gets 90 million viewers a night every night. That’s JUST the broadcast channels, no cable networks.