Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Total Online Video Streams up 41% from Last Year

September 15, 2009

The Nielsen Company today reported overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for August 2009. Year-over-year, unique viewers, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were up, led by a 41 percent growth in total streams.

Overall Online Video Usage (U.S.)
August 2009Year-Over-YearMonth-Over-Month
Unique Viewers (000)139,17618.00%2.40%
Total Streams (000)11,363,81941.00%1.50%
Streams per Viewer81.719.60%-0.80%
Time per Viewer (min)204.938.60%-3.20%
Source: The Nielsen Company
Top Online Brands ranked by Video Streams for August 2009 (U.S.)
RANKVideo BrandTotal Streams (000)Unique Viewers (000)
1YouTube7,188,638107,730
2Hulu392,5459,894
3Yahoo!226,60128,402
4MSN/WindowsLive/Bing180,60317,244
5Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network158,7906,376
6Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network151,6067,826
7Fox Interactive Media149,30414,823
8Disney Online103,9929,524
9MTV Networks Music102,0216,227
10Blinkx94,728425
Source: The Nielsen Company


Note: Effective with June 2009 data reporting, Nielsen has made several enhancements to the VideoCensus service, including a panel that is 8 times larger, more granular reporting and improved accuracy and representativeness. These enhancements provide the highest quality data to our clients and the marketplace. For some sites, trending of previously-reported data with current results may show percentage differences attributable to these product enhancements and should only be compared directionally.


VideoCensus Methodology and Metrics:
Nielsen Online’s VideoCensus combines patented panel and census research methodologies to provide an accurate count of viewing activity and engagement along with in-depth demographic reporting. Online video viewing is tracked according to video player, which can be used on site or embedded elsewhere on the Web. For example, if a “Saturday Night Live” clip from NBC.com is embedded on a personal blog, that video would be attributed to NBC because of the NBC video player.


A unique viewer is anyone who viewed a full episode, part of an episode or a program clip during the month. A stream is a program segment. VideoCensus measurement does not include video advertising.

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