YouTube Leads Online Video

Internet users continue to spend more and more time surfing online video. comScore released the results of their May 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings which showed that 183 million U.S internet users watched some form of online video over the course of May. It also showed that YouTube (among other Google properties) accounted for 43.5% of the market.

This is good news for YouTube, of course, but it also means that more and more eyeballs are looking to the internet for another video viewing source. In fact, the study also showed that nearly every internet user is now watching some form of online video (85% of the total U.S. internet audience). That’s a good chunk of the digital audience. Hopefully marketers are paying attention to this trend and adding it to their digital strategy.

YouTube celebrates it 5th birthday with 2 Billion served…per day

The future is bright for YouTube. Even though they have not turned a profit yet, it is growing on the Web and on mobile devices. Most of the major media players are working out ways to stream their content on YouTube and video content is becoming commonplace on devices that stream Internet content to the living room TV. In addition to the convenience factors, many viewers are driven to watch TV on the Internet by the presence of fewer ads.